Thomas Elbert - Curriculum Vitae#

POSITION TITLE: Professor (em.) of Clinical Psychology and Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Konstanz, Germany

EDUCATION/TRAINING

• 1975 University of Münich, Germany MSc (Diploma in Physics), Physics, Psychology
  
• 1978 University of Tübingen, Germany PhD (Dr. rer. soc.), Psychology
  
• 1982 University of Tübingen, Germany Postdoctoral, Behavioral Neuroscience

POSITIONS AND EMPLOYMENT

• 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 Univ., 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
    
• Other Professional Experience
  
  • 2014/2015 Guest Professor, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tampere, Finnland
    
  • 2013 - 2015 Chairman, Department of Psychology and Vice-Dean, Science Section
    
  • 2013 - present Honorary Professor, Université Lumière, Bujumbura, Burundi
    
  • 2012 - 2015 OCSE Professor in the National Italian Commission for Scientific Qualification; Sector: Clinical Psychology and Dynamic Psychology
    
  • 2011 - present Honorary Lecturer, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda
    
  • 2006 - 2013 Speaker of the DFG-Research Group Science of Social Stress
    
  • 2006 - 2012 Univ. Zürich, committee member for the Master of Advanced Studies in Psychotraumatology
    
  • 2003 - 2008 Dean Faculty of Sciences, University of Konstanz
    
  • 2001 - present President, vivo international ONLUS (NGO-Italian branch)
    
  • 1997 - present Field research in conflict zones (Afghanistan, Burundi, Columbia, DR Congo, Rwanda, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Uganda)
    
  • 2006 Evaluation committee, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich
    
  • 2002 - 2006 Lurija Institute of Rehabilitation Science, board member
    
  • 2000 - 2001 Guest professor, NIMH-Centre for the Study of Emotion and Attention, Gainesville, USA
    
  • 1992 - 1998 Speaker of DFG-Centre-Initiative (Schwerpunkt) Mechanisms of associative learning
    
  • 1990 - 1995 Director of the Clinical Research Group (DFG) Biomagnetism and Biosignal-Analysis
    

Editorial board (past and present, selection): Psychophysiology, IEEE Trans. Biomedical Engineering, Journal of Psychophysiology, BMC Neuroscience; BMC Psychiatry; Borderline Personality Disorder & Emotion Dysregulation; Scitizen; The Open Neuroscience Journal; Journal of European Psychology Students (JEPS); Dataset Papers in Medicine; OA Psychiatry, ad hoc reviewer for > 100 journals including Science and Nature.

Calls for Professorship: University of Münster, 1990; Humboldt-University, Berlin 1995; University of Konstanz, 1995; University of Dresden, 2002; Leadership Chair, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver 2005

Complete List of Published Work

Extensive collaboration with other research groups around the world:

1) 1987 - 1988 Dept. of Psychiatry, Stanford University, CA, USA
2) 2000-2001 NIMH Ctr. for the Study of Emotion and Attention, FL, USA
3) 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2008: Field Research in Uganda: PTSD prevalence and treatment, set-up of two out-patient clinics for mental disorders
4) Somalia: Rehabilitation and drug abuse in ex-combatants
5) 2010 Tanzania: Development of a psychosocial program for orphans
6) Zimbabwe: Trauma and torture, Consultant to vivo
7) 2002, 2003 GTZ in Sri Lanka: psychological trauma and depression in children
8) 2005 Afghanistan: set-up of counseling centers
9) 2006, 2009 Rwanda
10) 2009, 2011 Consultant vivo/Worldbank in Eastern Congo: work with offenders
11) 2012 Burundi: Prevention of trauma-related illness in the Burundian Peace Core
12) 2013 Colombia (with IOM): demobilization and reintegration of ex-combatants
13) Since 2014 DDR project in Africa’s Great Lakes region, supported by the International Bank for Development/The Worldbank,
14) Since 2015 Project on Sexual and Gender-based violence, Kivu regions, supported by the Social Fund of the DRC and the Worldbank
15) Since 2017 House of Hope: establishing evidence-based treatment of trauma-related disorders in Senegal and Gambia, in cooperation with Freundeskreis Asyl, Karlsruhe, supported by GIZ

Additional Information: Research Support and/or Scholastic Performance

Funding during the past 10 years from the following agencies:

• German Research Society (DFG): Koselleck-Project
  
• Volkswagenfoundation
  
• ERF (European Refugee Fund; EU)
  
• Asyl-, Migrations- und Integrationsfonds (AMIF, German Federal Government/EU)
  
• International Bank for Development/ The Worldbank
  
• Social Fund of the DRCongo
  
• IOM (International Organization of Migration)
  
• GIZ (German governmental)
  
• ERC (European Research Council) Advanced Grant
  
• ERC Proof of Concept