Herta Flor
Herta Flor (* 1954 in Schnaittenbach ) is a German neuropsychologist . She is the Scientific Director of the Institute for Neuropsychology and Clinical Psychology at the Central Institute for Mental Health in Mannheim and Chair of Neuropsychology at the University of Heidelberg .
Live and act
After finishing school at the Dr.-Johanna-Decker-Gymnasium in Amberg , she studied psychology at the University of Tübingen . During a research stay at Yale University , she laid the foundations for her later field of work, pain research. In 1991, Flor published the Tübinger Bogen for recording pain behavior .
She developed fundamental insights into the close connection between physical causes and the psychological dimension of pain. For the first time she clearly showed which psychological prerequisites contribute to the chronic development of pain. In 2004, in cooperation with the Mannheim University Hospital and Heidelberg University , she succeeded in bringing the Collaborative Research Center 636 “Learning, Memory and Plasticity of the Brain: Implications for Psychopathology ”, of which she is the spokesperson, to the Central Institute.
One of her doctoral students was Sabine Grüsser-Sinopoli .
Awards and memberships
- 2000: Max Planck Research Award
- 2002: German Psychology Prize
- 2004: Research Prize 2004 from the State of Baden-Württemberg
- 2004: Full member of the Academia Europaea
- 2008: Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 2015: Honorary doctorate from the Free University of Amsterdam
- 2019: Honorary doctorate from Aalborg University
Web links
- Literature by and about Herta Flor in the catalog of the German National Library
- Publications recorded by ZPID in the "PsychAuthors" project
- Herta Flor in the AcademiaNet database of renowned women scientists
Individual evidence
- ↑ Herta Flor and Karin Heimerdinger: Recording of pain behavior . In: Edgar Geissner and Georg Jungnitsch (Ed.): Psychology of pain. Diagnosis and therapy (pp. 99–105). Weinheim: Psychologie Verlags Union, 1992.
- ↑ Description as MPF Prize Winner 2000 at the Max Planck Society ( Memento from August 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/nachruf-sucht-ohne-stoff/1140838.html
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Directory of members: Herta Flor. Academia Europaea, accessed June 24, 2017 .
- ↑ Member entry of Herta Flor (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 6, 2016.
- ↑ Torsten Lauer: ZI scientist Herta Flor receives an honorary doctorate from Aalborg University. Central Institute for Mental Health, press release from May 6, 2019 at Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on May 6, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Flor, Herta |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German neuropsychologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schnaittenbach |