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Curriculum vitae Prof. Dr. Tilo Kircher

  • Education

    2002 Habilitation in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Tübingen, Germany
    2001 Board Certificate, Psychiatry
    1994 Dissertation in Developmental Neurology, Ludwig Maximilians University München, Germany
    1989-1990 Scholarship (psychology, literature), University of Washington, Seattle, USA
    1985-1992 State examination in Medicine, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany

  • Academic and Professional Career

    2009-current Professor of Psychiatry and Chair, Dept. Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Marburg, Germany
    2006-2008 Head of RWTH Aachen Brain Imaging Center
    West (BICW), with Research Centre Juelich,
    Germany
    2004-2008 Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry and Vice Chair, School of Medicine, RWTH Aachen, Germany
    1997-2000 DFG PostDoc, Institute of Psychiatry (IOPPN), Kings College London, London, UK
    1992-2004 Physician in Depts. of Psychiatry and Neurology, Universities of Munich and Tübingen, Germany

  • Institutional Responsibilities

    2024-current Spokesperson of the CRC/TRR 393 ‘Trajectories of Affective Disorders’
    2018-2020 Member of the Senate, University of Marburg, Germany
    2017-2019 Member of the Medical Faculty Council, University of Marburg, Germany
    2015-2021 Coordinator, Panic-Net I and II, PROTECT-AD, multicentre fMRI of CBT in Anxiety
    Disorders, BMBF
    2015-2019 Coordinator (with Prof. A. Jansen), BIPOLIFE, multicentre fMRI, BMBF
    2014-2023 Coordinator DFG Research Unit FOR 2107 Neurobiology of Affective Disorders
    2009-current Member of Managing Board, Institute for Behaviour Therapy and Behaviour
    Medicine at University of Marburg, Germany
    2007-2011 Coordinator, Consortium Mechanisms of Perceiving and Executing Social Actions,
    BMBF
    2006-2012 Coordinator, Panic-Net I and II, PROTECT-AD, multicentre fMRI of CBT in Anxiety Disorders, BMBF
    2006-2009 Coordinator, POSITIVE, multicentre fMRI of CBT in Psychosis, BMBF
    2005-2008 Board Member of the IZKF BIOMAT Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research
    at University Hospital of RWTH Aachen, Germany

  • Commisions of Trust

    2023-current Vice President, German Medical Society of Behavioural Therapy
    2020-current Editorial board Minerva Psichiatrica, Journal of Psychiatry and Mental Health
    2017-current Editorial board Der Nervenarzt
    2016-current President (since 2023), before Member Managing Board, German Society of Biological Psychiatry
    2015-current Scientific Advisory Council, Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research, University of Würzburg
    2013-current Editorial board Verhaltenstherapie
    2013-current Board Member, Stiftung Deutsche Depressionshilfe
    2013-current Scientific Advisory Council of the Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research
    (IZKF), Jena
    2009-current President of the Marburg-Biedenkopf Society against Depression
    2003-2006 Editorial board Advances in Schizophrenia and Clinical Psychiatry
    2002-2008 Editorial board European Psychiatry
    2002-current Editorial board Info Neurologie & Psychiatrie

  • Fellowships, Awards and Third Party Funding

    2007-2008 Member of the Excellence Cluster Jülich-Aachen-Research-Alliance JARA-Brain
    2006 Research Award Deutsche Gesellschaft für Biologische Psychiatrie, Germany
    2005 Research Award 2005 European Psychiatric Association (EAP)
    2003 Research Award, International Congress on Schizophrenia Research, Colorado Springs, USA
    2002, 2004 Senior Research Award, Biennial Winter Workshop on Schizophrenia, Davos, Switzerland
    2002 Attempto Research Award, Tübingen University, Germany

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