Thomas Elbert#
| Membership Number: | 6560 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Affiliated section(s): | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.net-institute.org |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-1332-4939 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2018 Professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychology & Behavioural Neuroscience
- 1995 - 2018 Professor, Clinical Psychology & Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Konstanz, Germany
- 1991 - 1995 Professor, Biomagnetism (Brain Imaging) & Biosignal-Analysis, University of Münster Medical School, Germany
- 1990 - 1991 Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology (C2), University of Konstanz, Germany
- 1987-1988 Assoc. Guest Professor, Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine, and Research Fellow, VA Hospital, Palo Alto, CA., USA
- 1987 Visiting Associate Professor, Dept. Psychology, Pennsylvania State Univerity, USA
- 1982 - 1989 Assistant Professor (tenure), Dept. Psychology, University of Tübingen, Germany
- 1978 - 1982 postdoc, Dept. Psychology, University of Tübingen, Germany
- 1975 - 1978 graduate student, Dept. Psychology, University of Tübingen, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Narrative exposure therapy (treatment for mental disorders)
- Traumatic stress
- Aggression
Honours and Awards
- German Academy of Science (member of BBAW and member of National Academy Leopoldina)
- 1984 Attempto-Price for Neurosciences
- 1987 Research Award, Max-Kade Foundation, New York
- 1994 Human Frontier and Science Program
- International Neuropsychological Symposium (member by honor)
- Claude-Bernard-Club (member by honor)
- Listed on HOT 100 AUTHORS of BiomedCentral
- 2009 Hector Research price
- 2010 Hector Fellow
- 2010 APS Fellow
- 2010 Reinhart-Koselleck-award of the DFG
- ERC advanced grant
- 2013 Honorary Professor, Université Lumière, Bujumbura, Burundi
- 2016 Mentor Award as best supervisor of PhD theses, awarded by the Young Members of the German Society for Psychology/Psychotherapy
- 2016 Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Award of the Leopoldina
- 2019 ERC Proof of Concept grant; Deutscher Psychologiepreis (Highest Award in Germany for Psychology)
