Say hi to our team members in the project.
Frauke Nees is Director of the Institute of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein and Professor for Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, Kiel University. She did her PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) at the University of Trier (fellowships from the Nikolaus-Koch-foundation and a German Research Foundation funded International Research Training Group program, 2005-2008), was then Research Group Head, Deputy Professor and Permanent Deputy of the Scientific Director of the Institute of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience at the Central Institute of Mental Health Mannheim, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University (2008-2020, 2018-2020 with a Heisenberg fellowship, funded by the German Research Foundation), and PostDoc and clinical scientist at the Medical University Vienna (2015-2016) and the Clinic of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Central Institute of Mental Health Mannheim (2016-2017).
Since 2024, Beke Seefried is a researcher at the Institute of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein. She has a degree in Mathematics and Language Sciences from the University of Bremen. During her studies, she worked as a student assistant in several linguistic research projects and focused on interdisciplinary approaches and data processing.
Rieke Aden has been working as a research assistant at the Institute of Medical Psychology and Sociology at the University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein since the beginning of 2024. She studied psychology (B.Sc. and M.Sc.) at Kiel University. During this time, she worked as a student and research assistant in clinical psychology. In spring 2024, she began training as a psychotherapist specializing in systemic therapy.
Sebastian Siehl is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein. He did a degree in psychology (B.Sc.) at the University of Konstanz and the University of Oslo and cognitive neuroscience (M.Sc.) at University College London. He did his PhD (Dr. rer. soc.) at the University of Mannheim and the Central Institute of Mental Health, Institute of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Heidelberg, Medical Faculty Mannheim (2021). Since 2018 he has been in training as a psychotherapist specializing in cognitive behavioral therapy. Since 2021, he is research associate at the Institute of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein and guest-scientist at the Clinic of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Central Institute of Mental Health Mannheim (since 2023).