Anke Ehlers#
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Membership Number: | 3335 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
Elected: | 2012 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Homepage(s): | http://www.neuroscience.ox.ac.uk/research-directory/a-e/anke-ehlers http://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/team/principal-investigators/anke-ehlers |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 2012 Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Experimental Psychopathology, University of Oxford, UK, and Visiting Professor, King’s College, London, UK
- since 2000 Research Director, Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma, Maudsley, Hospital, London, UK
- 2000-2011 Professor of Experimental Psychopathology, Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Psychology, King’s College, London
- 1993-2000 Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK
- 1991-1993 Professor ("Professor, C4"), Department of Psychology, University of Göttingen, Germany
- 1985-1990 Assistant Professor ("Hochschulassistent, C1"), Department of Psychology, University of Marburg, Germany
- 1984-1985 Assistant Director, Laboratory for Clinical Psychopharmacology and Psychophysiology, Stanford University
Fields of Scholarship
- Posttraumatic stress disorder
- Anxiety disorders
- Experimental psychology
- Trauma
- Clinical psychology
- Cognitive behavioural intervention
Honours and Awards
- 1986 Career Achievement Award ("Jungwissenschaftlerpreis"), German Psychological Society
- 1987 Award of the Faculty for Social Sciences ("Fakultätspreis"), University of Tübingen, Germany (for best doctoral thesis)
- 1993 Invitation for Fellowship at the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin (Center for Advanced Study)
- Since 1993 Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow
- 2004/2005 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA, USA
- 2005 Elected Fellow, “Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina“ (German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina)
- 2006 British Medical Association book award "highly commended" for NICE PTSD guidelines
- 2009 Elected Fellow, Association for Psychological Science
- 2010 Elected Fellow, British Academy