Prof. Dr. Anja Riesel

Elected member of the Board of Directors of the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR)

W 3 professorship for Clinical Psychology and Neuroscience

University of Hamburg

Head of the University Outpatient Clinic with Focus on Anxiety and Obsessive-compulsive disorder

University Hamburg, Germany

Assistant Professor for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy with focus on Clinical Neuroscience

University Hamburg, Germany

Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Psychology, Clinical Psychology

Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany

Approbation/ Licensed as a  Psychotherapist in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

Cognitive behavioral therapy

Ph.D. in Psychology (Dr. rer. nat.), Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany

Dissertation: Overactive performance-monitoring in obsessive-compulsive disorder

Ph.D. student in Clinical Psychology, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany

Research stay at the State University of new York at Stony Brook, New York, USA

In the “Cognitive and Affective Psychophysiology Laboratory” (Prof. Greg Hajcak)

 DFG – German Research Foundation

Project: "Dynamic updating of beliefs in obsessive-compulsive disorder: Influence of confidence and disorder-specific context" together with C. Exner in the DFG-funded research group– 5389 “Context-driven influences on dynamic belief updating in volatile environments: shared mechanisms and clinical implications” (Sprecherin Prof. Dr. Tania Lincoln)

German Society of Psychology

3rd place of the Supervisor Award (Young Scientists) of the Division of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy of the German Society of Psychology

DFG – German Research Foundation

Project: “The relevance of dynamic belief updating to emerging psychopathology during adolescence.” together with T. Lincoln in the DFG-funded research group – 5389 “Context-driven influences on dynamic belief updating in volatile environments: shared mechanisms and clinical implications” (spokesperson Prof. Dr. Tania Lincoln)

DFG – German Research Foundation

Grant: RI-2853/2-2: Linking Latent Transdiagnostic Anxiety Dimensions to Neural Functioning

Project on "Fear conditioning in obsessive-compulsive disorder, participants at risk and healthy controls" in the DFG-funded Research Training Group "Emotional Learning and Memory" (GRK 2753, spokesperson Prof. Dr. Lars Schwabe)

Since 2022

German Society of Psychology

2nd place of the Supervisor Award (Young Scientists) of the Division of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy of the German Society of Psychology

University of Hamburg

Teaching Award in Psychology for the lecture "From clinical basics to disorder-specific intervention".

DFG – German Research Foundation

Grant: RI-2853/2-1: Psychological indicators of transdiagnostic anxiety dimensions (anxious arousal and tendency to worry).

German Academic Exchange Service Travel Grant

German Academic Exchange Service Travel Grant

Research fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Service