Dr. M.Sc. Matthias Pillny
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Research Interests
Cognitive and affective processes in anhedonia and amotivation; psychological therapies for psychosis
Curriculum Vitae
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10/2025 – 05/2026 |
Visiting Researcher, King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN); Host: Dr. Clementine J. Edwards |
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2023 |
Visiting researcher at the University of California San Diego, supervised by Dr. Eric Granholm & Dr. Fiza Singh |
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since 2022 |
Associated with the research training group Emotional Learning and Memory |
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2015 – 2022 |
Clinical training as a psychological psychotherapist (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), PTA Hamburg |
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2015 – 2020 |
Doctoral studies University of Hamburg, Institute for Psychology Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy |
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08/2014 – 04/2015 |
Research visit at the University of Otago, Dunedin in New Zealand. Research on life events, cognition and psychosis risk. Supervised by Dr. Richard Linscott |
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02/2014 – 08/2014 |
Internship at the Research and Treatment Center for Mental Health, Bochum. Diagnostics as part of a study on genetic influences in the treatment of anxiety disorders |
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04/2012 – 08/2014 |
Research assistant at the Center for Psychotherapy at the Ruhr University Bochum |
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10/2012 – 03/2015 |
Studies of clinical psychology (Master of Science) Master's thesis: Impact of 5-HTTLPR and Emotion Regulation on Fear Conditioning and Extinction Learning in Children. |
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2011 – 2012 |
Student assistant at the chair of Developmental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum |
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10/2008 – 04/2012 |
Studies of Psychology (Bachelor of Science) Bachelor's thesis: Differences in Personality Traits and Emotion Regulation Between Children with Sexually or Physically Abusive Behaviour. |
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2008 |
Abitur Hittorf Gymnasium Recklinghausen |
Editorial Roles
- Guest editor of a Special Issue in Schizophrenia Bulletin in collaboration with Dr. Clementine J. Edwards and Dr. Kerem Böge: “Psychological Therapies for Schizophrenia and Other Primary Psychotic Disorders: Towards Precision, Personalization, and Real-World Impact"
- Since 2025 Member of the Editorial Board, Schizophrenia Bulletin
- Co-editor (with Dr. Kerem Böge) of a book on evidence-based psychological therapies for schizophrenia, to be published by Hogrefe in 2026
Projects and Third-Party Funding
| 2026–2029 |
“Synthesizing Evidence and Individual Needs: An Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis of Cognitive Behavioral Social Skills Training for Enhancing Psychosocial Recovery in Schizophrenia.” Funded by the Christoph-Dornier Foundation for Clinical Psychology. |
| 2024 |
DAAD - Conference travel grant (funding 57706469; Kongressreisen 24_W1) DAAD - Conference travel grant (funding 57706468; Kongressreisen 24) |
| 2023-2024 | Data literacy lab "Psychology Meets Computer Science - From Collecting to Analysing Complex Data. An Interdisciplinary Project Seminar on Data Analysis Using Python and Machine Learning" (Applicants: Larissa Gebken & Dr Matthias Pillny) |
| 2022-2023 | Personalized and mental imagery based behavioral activation (BA-ME). Contemporary treatment of amotivational syndroms in depression and psychosis. Funded by the Groningen-Hamburg funding program |
| 2022-2023 | "Back to the Future? The Influence of Neuronal and Affective Memory Functions on the Anticipation of Pleasure and Motivational Processes Using the Example of Psychotic Disorders." Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg as part of the Excellence Strategy of the Federal and State Governments |
| 08/2014-01/2015 | PROMOS scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) |
In the media
Spotlight: Data Literacy Lehrlabor - DDLitLab #4 "Psychologie trifft Informatik", 2025/03/03
Vortrag im Rahmen der 19. Fachtagung des IVS "Behandlung der Negativsymptomatik bei Psychosen" 2024/06/08
Science programme scobel, 2024/02/22
Podcast Deutschlandfunk Kultur, The inner voice: Friend or foe in my head? 2023/11/30
Committee membership
- Local Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Psychology and Human Movement Science, University of Hamburg
- Master's Thesis Funding Committee of the Faculty of Psychology and Human Movement Science, University of Hamburg
- Steering Committee of the European Negative Symptoms Research Network
- Advisory board member of the BA-ME study on how to improve cognitive functioning in people recovered from depression (PI: Prof Dr Marie José van Tol) at the University of Groningen
- Member of the interest group METASYN - Meta-analytical Psychotherapy Research and Evidence Synthesis. Interest group within the German Psychological Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie, DGPs)