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Curriculum vitae Prof. Dr. Rudolf Stark

  • Education

    2004 Habilitation in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Sport Sciences, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Gemany
    1994 Dr. rer. nat., Faculty of Psychology and Sport Sciences, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
    1987 Diploma in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Sport Sciences, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany

  • Academic and professional career

    2012 - present Professor, Department of Psychotherapy and Systems Neuroscience, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
    2012 - present Managing director of the Bender Institute of Neuroimaging
    2006 - present Head of the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) outpatient clinic, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
    2006 - present Head of the psychotherapy training institute, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
    1989 - 2012 Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychophysiology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany

  • Institutional responsibilities

    2012 Director of the BION and head of the VT-Ambulanz of Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
    2015 - present Member of the faculty council

  • Commissions of trust

    since 2021 Chairman of the Advisory Board for Psychotherapy at IMPP
    since 2021 Member of the Executive Board of the Psychotherapeutenkammer Hessen
    since 2021 President of Unith, the Association of University Training Institutes and Outpatient Clinics

    Reviewer for the following funding agencies: German Research Foundation (DFG), Research Fund Flanders (FWO, Belgium), Austrian Research Foundation (FWF), Swiss National Science Foundation

    Reviewer for the following journals: Behavior Therapy, Behaviour Research and Therapy, Behavioural Brain Research, Biological Psychiatry, Biological Psychology, BMC Neuroscience, Brain Research, Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, Cortex, Diagnostica, European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, GMS Psycho Social Medicine, Human Brain Mapping, International Journal of Psychophysiologie, JAMA Psychiatry, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Journal of Individual Differences, Journal of Psychiatric Research, Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience, Journal of Psychophysiology, Mind & Matter, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, NeuroImage, Neuropsychobiology, Neuroscience Letters, Proceeding of the Royal Society Biological Science, Psychiatry Reseach: Neuroimaging, Psychopharmacology, Psychophysiology, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, The Spanish Journal of Psychology, Zeitschrift für experimentelle Psychologie, Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie

  • Fellowships, awards and third party funding

    2019 BMBF Project “Enhancing understanding and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder related to child maltreatment (ENHANCE)”, PI
    2018 DFG Project “Intrusive reexperience in social phobia”, Co-PI
    2017 Project “The influence of stress on the processing of visual sexual stimuli (VSS) in men in relation to habitual VSS consumption”, PI
    2017 BMBF-Compare: Children of mentally ill parents at risk evaluation (COMPARE), Co-PI
    2016

    DFG Core Facility: Einfacher Zugang zur neurowissenschaftlichen Bildgebung: PLannning, Experimental, and Analysis SUppport in REsearch (PLEASURE)
    2013 - 2017 President of the German Society of Psychophysiology and its Application
    2012 DFG-Großgerät: 3 Tesla Magnetic Resonance Tomograph

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