Prof. Dr. Steffen Moritz

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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