Prof. Dr. Steffen Moritz
Curriculum Vitae
| 1998 – present | Head of Clinical Neuropsychology Working Group, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany |
| 2010 | Clinical neuropsychologist (GNP-certification) |
| 2008 | Professor of clinical psychology, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Clinical Neuropsychology Working Group, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany |
| 2004 | Habilitation in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (German qualification to apply for tenureship) and Venia legend (German licence to lecture), University of Hamburg, Department of Medicine, Germany |
| 2001 | Visiting researcher at the Psychology Department of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (funded by the German Academic Exchange Services [DAAD]) |
| 2000 | Ph.D. dissertation on cognitive correlates of the positive, negative and disorganized syndromes of schizophrenia, University of Hamburg, Germany |
| 1991 – 1997 | Diploma in Psychology, University of Hamburg, Germany |
Research Interests
- metacognitive interventions
- cognitive biases
- information processing in schizophrenia, OCD, depression, and PTSD
Selected Independent Research Funding
| 2015 | Funding for a study on the evaluation of Internet-based cognitive behavioral self-help treatments for persecutory ideation and auditory verbal hallucinations from the German Research Foundation (DFG; Mo 969/17-1) and the Swiss National Fonds (SNF) |
| 2015 | Funding for a study on computer-assisted therapy for schizophrenia for the reduction of cognitive biases from Asklepios proresearch |
| 2015 | Funding for a study on Metacognitive Training for depression - development and evaluation of treatment modules to reduce suicidality from the German Depression Help Organization (Deutsche Depressionshilfe) |
| 2014 | Funding for a study on immediate and delayed effects of individualized Metacognitive Training for Psychosis (MCT+) from the German Research Foundation (DFG; Mo 969/16-1) |
| 2014 | Independent Investigator Award from the National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD) |
| 2014 | Funding for a study on the effectivity of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in patients with OCD from the German Research Foundation (DFG; Mo 969/15-1) |
| 2011 | Hamburg Award on Personality Disorders (with Katja Wingenfeld and Carsten Spitzer) for a study on cognitive biases in borderline personality disorder |
| 2009 | Funding (with Tania Lincoln) for a study on the impact of stress on cognitive biases and psychosis from the German Research Foundation (DFG) |
| 2009 | Funding for an intervention study on association splitting in alcohol substance disorder from the Werner Otto Foundation (WOI) |
| 2009 | Funding (with Lena Jelinek) for a study on association splitting in OCD from the German Research Foundation (DFG) |
| 2008 | Young Investigator Award from the National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD) |
| 2006 | Funding of multicenter study on metacognitive training in schizophrenia from the German Research Foundation, Clinical Studies Program (DFG, Mo 969/6-1) |
| 2006 | Research Award from the German Society for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (DGZ) |
| 2006 | Young Investigator Award from the University Medical Center Hamburg (FFM-project) |
| 2005 | Young Investigator Award from the National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD) |
| 2003 | Young Investigator Award from the University Medical Center Hamburg (FFM-project) |
| 2002 | Funding of study on source memory in schizophrenia from the German Research Foundation (DFG, Mo 969/4-1) |
| 2001 | Scholarship for a research stay in Canada from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) |
| 2000 – 2002 | Funding for a study on spatial cognition in OCD from the German Research Foundation (DFG, Mo 969/1-1) |
Selected Publications
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