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Prof. Dr. Tobias Hecker

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@ Universität Bielefeld

Prof. of Clinical Psychology and Violence Research

Phone
+49 (0) 521 106-3105
Fax
+49 (0) 521 106-6415
Mailing address
University Bielefeld P.O. Box 100131 33501 Bielefeld
E-Mail
tobias.hecker@uni-bielefeld.de
Room
X-E1-282
Hours
by appointment

Career

 

 

10/2023 Deputy Scientific Director, Institute for Interdisciplinary Conflict and Violence Research, Bielefeld, University, Germany 
10/2023 Professor (full) of Clinical Psychology & Violence Research, Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University, Germany
01/2021 Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology & Violence Research (former: Clincal Developmental Psychopathology), Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University, Germany

08/2020

Emmy-Noether Junior Research Group Leader, Institute for Interdisciplinary Conflict and Violence Research & Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University, Germany
11/2016 – 07/2020 Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University, Germany
01/2015 – 12/2016 Postdoctoral Research Fellow and subdivision leader “Consequences of trauma and violence” at the Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
2013 Dr. rer. nat. (PhD), University of Konstanz, Germany, Degree: summa cum laude
04/2011 – 12/2014 Scientific associate at the Department of Psychology and at the Center of Excellence for Psychotraumatology, University of Konstanz, Germany
2011 Diploma (MSc) in Psychology at the Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany

Clinical Education

 
2020 Licensed to practice psychotherapy with children and adolescents
2019 Licensed to practice psychotherapy with adults

Awards and Honours

 

 

2023 Offered Full Professorship (W3) for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology at the Otto-Friedrich-University of Bamberg, Germany (declined) 
2022 Offered Full Professorship (W3) for Clincal Psychology & Psychotherapy at the University Mannheim, Germany (declined) 
2021 – 2023

Membership in the Junges Kolleg of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Science and the Arts

2020

Admission to the Emmy Noether Program of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
2019/2020 Postdoctoral Fellow of the Daimler and Benz Foundation
2019 Offered Junior Professorship (Assistant Professorship) for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology at the University of Witten-Herdecke, Germany (rejected)
2019 Ranked third in the appointment procedure for the Junior Professorship (Assistant Professorship) with tenure track in Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and Psychotherapy at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
2018 Nomination for the academics-Nachwuchspreis 2018: Young Scientist of the Year (Top-10 position)
2017 DeGPT Advancement Award of the Falk-von-Reichenbach Foundation and the German-Speaking Society of Psychotraumatology
2014 Poster award at the DGPPN, Berlin for the study: Child maltreatment, mental health, and modifications in the DNA methylation in the HPA axis: a study with children in Tanzania
  • Violence against children: global prevalence, drivers, consequences and prevention
  • Child abuse and neglect
  • Psychological trauma and trauma-related disorders
  • Mental health in conflict and crisis regions
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