Dr. Lisa Weckesser

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Dr. Lisa Weckesser

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Visiting address:

Falkenbrunnen, 3. Etage, Raum 338 Chemnitzer Str. 46a

01187 Dresden

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Office hours:

upon request

Short Biography

2025 Representation of the Chair of Behavioral Psychotherapy at the TUD; Licensed psychological psychotherapist 2024; between 2019 and 2025 postdoc at the Chair of Addiction Research at the TUD; 2018/19 psychiatry year at Dresden University Hospital (addiction ward/memory outpatient clinic); 2017 PhD at the Chair of Biopsychology at the  TUD; two periods of parental leave; study of psychology in Erlangen-Nuremberg, Dresden and London.

Professional career

• 2025 Representation of the Chair of Behavioral Psychotherapy, TU Dresden
• 2024 Licensed as a psychological psychotherapist (BT)
• 2021 & 2017/2018 Parental leaves
• 2017 PhD at the Chair of Biopsychology, TU Dresden
• 2013 Diploma in psychology , TU Dresden
• 2007/2008 Voluntary social year

Main research interests
Stress, cognition, psychopharmacology, stress and alcohol consumption;

Research interests
I am looking for models that can explain the effects of stress on human cognitive performance and contribute to a better understanding of their role in the development and maintenance of alcohol use disorders. 

Research funds and awards

• Research Grant, German Research Foundation (WE-6465/4-1, ~325.000,00 €)

• Research Grant, German Research Foundation (WE-6465/2-1; ~327.000 €)
• Maria-Reiche scholarship for Postdocs, Technische Universität Dresden (~87.000 €)
• Centralized research and equal opportunity fund, Technische Universität Dresden (~10.000€)
• Scholarship for PhD completion; Graduate Academy Dresden
• Travel Award for attending the 46^th ISPNE conference in Miami, USA; DAAD
• Travel Award for attending the 44^th ISPNE conference in Montreal, CA; Association of Friends and Sponsors of the Technische Universität Dresden
• Karl-und-Charlotte-Bühler Awards for outstanding diploma and PhD theses
• Certification for the administration and scoring of the “Bayle Scale of Infant and Toddler Development TM (III)”, Addenbrooke’s hospital, Cambridge

Publications

• Weckesser, L.J., Pilhatsch, M., Muehlhahn, M., Endraß, T., & Miller, R (accepted). A meta-analysis on the relation between acute stress exposure, alcohol consumption and cortisol levels in individuals with a personal, familial or no alcohol use disorder. Translational Psychiatry.

• Soylu, S., Miller, R., Pilhatsch, M., Endrass, T., & Weckesser, L.J. (2024). Memory under pressure: The impact of acute stress across different memory tasks. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 107246.

• Möschl, M., Schmidt, K., Enge, S., Weckesser, L. J., & Miller, R. (2022). Chronic stress and executive functioning: A specification-curve analysis. Physiology & behavior, 243, 113639.

• Weckesser, L. J. , Schmidt, K., Möschl, M., Kirschbaum, C., Enge, S., & Miller, R. (2021). Temporal stability and effect dynamics between executive functions, perceived chronic stress and hair cortisol concentrations. Developmental Psychology, 57(7),1149.

• Weckesser, L. J. , Miller, R. & Kirschbaum, C. (2020). Trier Social Stress Test. In: Gellman M.D., Turner J.R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine. Springer, New York, NY
• Muehlhan, M., Alexander, N., Trautmann, S., Weckesser, L. J., Vogel, S., Kirschbaum, C., & Miller, R. (2020). Cortisol secretion predicts functional macro-scale connectivity of the visual cortex: A data-driven Multivoxel Pattern Analysis (MVPA). Psychoneuroendocrinology, 104695.
• Weckesser, L. J., Dietz, F., Schmidt, K., Grass, J., Kirschbaum, C., & Miller, R. (2019). The psychometric properties and temporal dynamics of subjective stress, retrospectively assessed by different informants and questionnaires, and hair cortisol concentrations. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 1098.
• Miller, R., Wojtyniak, J. G., Weckesser, L. J., Alexander, N. C., Engert, V., & Lehr, T. (2018). How to disentangle psychobiological stress reactivity and recovery: A comparison of model-based and non-compartmental analyses of cortisol concentrations. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 90, 194-210.
• Weckesser, L. J., Enge, S., Riedel, P., Kirschbaum, C., & Miller, R. (2017). NMDA receptor modulation by dextromethorphan and acute stress selectively alters electroencephalographic indicators of partial report processing. European Neuropsychopharmacology, 27(10), 1042-1053.
• Weckesser, L. J., Alexander, N. C., Kirschbaum, C., Mennigen, E., & Miller, R. (2016). Hydrocortisone counteracts adverse stress effects on dual-task performance by improving visual sensory processes. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 28(11), 1784-1803.
• Miller, R.*, Weckesser, L. J.*, Smolka, M. N., Kirschbaum, C., & Plessow, F. (2015). Hydrocortisone accelerates the decay of iconic memory traces: On the modulation of executive and stimulus-driven constituents of sensory information maintenance. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 53, 148-158. (*shared first authorship)
• Weckesser, L. J., Plessow, F., Pilhatsch, M., Muehlhan, M., Kirschbaum, C., & Miller, R. (2014). Do venepuncture procedures induce cortisol responses? A review, study, and synthesis for stress research. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 46, 88-99.