Prof. Dr. Anja Riesel

Head of the department
Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy with focus on Clinical Neuroscience
Address
Office
Office hours
- Currently office hours are by appointment only.
Contact
Von-Melle-Park 11
20146 Hamburg
Room: 117
Phone: +49-40 42838-5763
E-Mail: anja.riesel@uni-hamburg.de
Academic CV
Since 08/2019 |
Assistant Professor for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy with focus on Clinical Neuroscience University Hamburg, Germany |
02/2013 – 07/2019 |
Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Psychology, Clinical Psychology Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany |
04/2015 |
Approbation/ Licensed as a Psychotherapist in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Cognitive behavioral therapy |
02/2008 – 04/2015 | Postgraduate program in cognitive behavioral therapy at the Center for Psychotherapy of the Humboldt University of Berlin |
04/2013 |
Ph.D. in Psychology (Dr. rer. nat.), Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany Dissertation: Overactive performance-monitoring in obsessive-compulsive disorder |
10/2008 – 04/2013 |
Ph.D. student in Clinical Psychology, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany |
06/2010 – 12/2010 |
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) |
10/2001 – 11/2007 | Master in Psychology at the Humboldt-University of Berlin |
Competitive grants and awards
2021 |
University of Hamburg Teaching Award in Psychology for the lecture "From clinical basics to disorder-specific intervention". |
2018 | Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychophysiology of the Society for Psychophysiological Research |
2017-2020 |
DFG – German Research Foundation Grant: RI-2853/2-1: Psychological indicators of transdiagnostic anxiety dimensions (anxious arousal and tendency to worry). |
10/2017 |
German Academic Exchange Service Travel Grant |
04/2014 |
German Academic Exchange Service Travel Grant |
10/2013 | Poster Award of the Society for Psychophysiological Research for the contribution “Conflict monitoring and conflict adaptation as reflected by N2 amplitude in obsessive-compulsive disorder.” |
06/2011 | Young Investigator Award for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy of the German Psychological Association |
06/2010 – 12/2010 |
Research fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Service |
10/2008 – 09/2011 | PhD fellowship for young scientist “Elsa-Neumann-Stipendium“, funding for graduates, national academic foundation |
2004 – 2006 | Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation |
Editorial and reviewing activity
Guest-Editor for the International Journal of Psychophysiology: Special Issue: “Biomarkers of Mental Disorders: Psychophysiological Measures as Indicators of Mechanisms, Risk and Outcome Prediction.” together with Prof. Anna Weinberg, McGill University, Canada and Prof. Tanja Endrass, Technical University of Dresden
Ad hoc reviewing:
Biological Psychiatry, Biological Psychology, Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, Comprehensive Psychiatry, Depression and Anxiety, Development and Psychopathology, Experimental Brain Research, Human Brain Mapping, International Journal of Psychophysiology, JAMA Psychiatry, Journal of Experimental Psychology, Journal of obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, Neuropsychologia, Psychophysiology, Psychiatry Research und Psychiatry Research: Neuroimage, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Scientific Reports
Membership in professional organizations
German Society for Psychology (DGPs)
Section for clinical psychology
Section for biological psychology and neuropsychology
Society for Psychophysiological Research