Stella Fingas, M.Sc.

PhD student
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Research Interests
My research interests include all (behavior-based) processes that could take place during coaching sessions. I am fascinated by questions relating to the effectiveness factors of coaching, for example the working relationship between coach and client or the influence of different types of questions asked by the coach on the self-regulation and motivation of the client.
CV
Work Experience
Since 10/2024 | Research assistant “Health and Work Initiative” project |
Since 10/2021 | Teaching activities in Bachelor and Master |
Since 04/2021 | Personal trainer and developer, Progress Professionals, Hamburg |
09/2018 - 08/2020 | Study assistant at the Institute for Translational Psychiatry, Münster |
Education
11/2020 – 11/2021 | Personal trainer, Institute for the Development of Personal & Interpersonal Competencies, University of Cologne |
10/2018 – 09/2021 | M.Sc. Psychology, Westfälische-Wilhelms Universität Münster |
09/2016 - 08/2017 | Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol, Great Britain |
10/2014 – 09/2018 | B.Sc. Psychology, Westfälische-Wilhelms Universität Münster |
Grants and Scholarships
06/2025 | Award of the Hamburg Teaching Prize of the Ministry of Science, Research, Equality and Districts for the B.Sc. Psychology course "Aspects of Work & Organizational Psychology: Coaching research in the crafts industry" |
Since 04/2015 | German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes) |
Since 07/2014 | Future Foundation Wiehl (Zukunftsstiftung Wiehl) |
Publications
Fingas, S. M., Busch, C., Dreyer, R., & Lehmann‐Willenbrock, N. (2025). Zooming in: Identifying fine‐grained verbal dynamics that influence coachees' self‐regulation statements during copreneur coaching sessions. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 98(2), e70021. https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.70021
Lemke, H., Romankiewicz, L., Förster, K., Meinert, S., Waltemate, L., Fingas, S. M., ... & Dannlowski, U. (2022). Association of disease course and brain structural alterations in major depressive disorder. Depression and anxiety, 39(5), 441-451. https://doi.org/10.1002/da.23260
Repple, J., König, A., de Lange, S. C., Opel, N., Redlich, R., Meinert, S., ... & Dannlowski, U. (2022). Association between genetic risk for type 2 diabetes and structural brain connectivity in major depressive disorder. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 7(3), 333-340. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2021.02.010
Sindermann, L., Leehr, E. J., Redlich, R., Meinert, S., Böhnlein, J., Grotegerd, D., ... & Dannlowski, U. (2021). P. 305 Inferior frontal gyrus activity as a possible neural marker of depression with comorbid anxiety compared to depression. European Neuropsychopharmacology, 44, S42-S43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroneuro.2021.01.066
Goltermann, J., Repple, J., Redlich, R., Dohm, K., Flint, C., Grotegerd, D., ... & Opel, N. (2021). Apolipoprotein E homozygous ε4 allele status: Effects on cortical structure and white matter integrity in a young to mid-age sample. European Neuropsychopharmacology, 46, 93-104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroneuro.2021.02.006
Leerssen, J., Blanken, T. F., Pozzi, E., Jahanshad, N., Aftanas, L., Andreassen, O. A., ... & Van Someren, E. J. (2020). Brain structural correlates of insomnia severity in 1053 individuals with major depressive disorder: results from the ENIGMA MDD Working Group. Translational psychiatry, 10(1), 425. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-020-01109-5
Meinert, S., Leehr, E. J., Grotegerd, D., Repple, J., Förster, K., Winter, N. R., ... & Dannlowski, U. (2022). White matter fiber microstructure is associated with prior hospitalizations rather than acute symptomatology in major depressive disorder. Psychological Medicine, 52(6), 1166-1174. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291720002950
Nenadić, I., Meller, T., Schmitt, S., Stein, F., Brosch, K., Mosebach, J., ... & Kircher, T. (2022). Polygenic risk for schizophrenia and schizotypal traits in non-clinical subjects. Psychological Medicine, 52(6), 1069-1079. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291720002822
Repple, J., Mauritz, M., Meinert, S., de Lange, S. C., Grotegerd, D., Opel, N., ... & van den Heuvel, M. P. (2020). Severity of current depression and remission status are associated with structural connectome alterations in major depressive disorder. Molecular psychiatry, 25(7), 1550-1558. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-019-0603-1
Ringwald, K., Meller, T., Brosch, K., Schmitt, S., Stein, F., Pfarr, J., ... & Kirch, T. (2020). The influence of recent stressful life events on brain structure. Pharmacopsychiatry, 53(02), P5-8.
Lemke, H., Förster, K., Waltemate, L., Meinert, S., Stein, F., Brosch, K., ... & Dannlowski, U. (2020). P. 328 Replication of effects of cumulative illness severity on hippocampal gray matter volume in the FOR2107 cohort. European Neuropsychopharmacology, 31, S67-S68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroneuro.2019.12.091