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Third-party funding acquired

As Principal Investigator:

  • DFG Research Grant: GE 1648/1-1 (2005–2007), “Effects of alcohol on socially phobic participants during the processing of socially threatening emotional facial expressions” (Approved personnel funds: €64,306; material funds: €9,759).

  • BMBF Project (2006–2009): “Specificity in CBT treatment effects: Exploring the impact of psychophysiological subtypes of panic disorder and their relation to genotype.” Subproject within the research network on the treatment of panic disorder: “Improving the Treatment of Panic Disorder – From a Better Understanding of Fear Circuit Mechanisms to More Effective Psychological Treatment and Routine Care” (Network spokesperson: Professor Dr. Volker Arolt). (Approved personnel funds: €191,854; material funds: €77,989).

  • BMBF Project (2009–2012): “Matching panic subtypes to symptom induction exercises; a process analysis of interoceptive exposure embedded in a CBT treatment program of PD/AG.” Subproject within the research network on the treatment of panic disorder: “Improving the Treatment of Panic Disorder – From a Better Understanding of Fear Circuit Mechanisms to More Effective Psychological Treatment and Routine Care, 2nd Funding Period.” (Approved personnel funds: €152,580; material funds: €24,500).

  • Innovation Committee of the Federal Joint Committee (Gemeinsamer Bundesausschuss) (2017–2021): Integrated, cross-sectoral psycho-oncology / isPO: “Consortium partner responsible for the psycho-oncological care concept and the isPO manual (psychotherapy manual).” (Approved personnel funds: €686,197.44; material funds: €144,339.49).

  • DFG Research Grant, project number 427465870 (2020–2024): “Can findings on uncertainty be transferred to decision-making difficulties? – Conceptual relations, critical boundary conditions, and implications for application.” (Approved personnel funds: €203,717.00; material funds: €22,469.00).

  • Foundation-funded research grants for members of the working group “Experimental Psychopathology” led by me at the Christoph Dornier Foundation (totaling approximately €20,000).

As Co-Applicant:

  • DFG Research Grant: STE 1875/2-1 (2009–2011), “Social phobia and self-focused attention: Effects of alcohol administration on the processing of competing internal and external stimuli.” (Approved personnel funds: €64,306; material funds: €44,646).

  • DFG Research Grant: WI 3666/2-1 (2011–2013), “Somatosensory perception and appraisal processes in individuals with hypochondriasis” (with Michael Witthöft and Wolfgang Hiller, University of Mainz). (Approved personnel funds: €64,306; material funds: €19,204 plus €17,600 program allowance).

  • DFG Research Grant: LA 3242/1-1 (2013–2017), “Oxytocin and the altered ego: Altered face processing in social anxiety” (with Gero Lange and Markus Heinrichs). (Approved personnel funds: €145,100; material funds: €38,500 plus €36,700 program allowance).

As Host:

  • Mr. Gero Lange successfully obtained a Hendrik Casimir Karl Ziegler Scholarship to work for one year as a visiting researcher at the Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the University of Cologne on the topic “Social anxiety: Disrupted social comparisons put to the test.” During this stay, we prepared the successful DFG third-party funding application (LA 3242/1-1; see above).

  • Ms. Huijing Chen successfully obtained a one-year scholarship under the CSC Scholarship Program (Peking University), supported by me, and conducted research in my laboratory for one year (2017–2018).

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