Thomas Elbert

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Thomas Elbert (born March 3, 1950 in Lindenberg im Allgäu ) is a German neuropsychologist .

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Elbert studied physics and psychology in Munich (diploma 1975) and received his doctorate in Tübingen in 1978. He then taught there until 1989, interrupted by visiting professorships at Pennsylvania State University and at Stanford University (1987/88).

In 1990 he switched to a professorship at the University of Konstanz and in 1991 he was appointed to the Münster University Hospital . In 1995 he returned to Konstanz, where he still holds the professorship for clinical psychology and clinical neuropsychology.

Elbert is a specialist in trauma research. He conducted field studies in conflict areas such as Afghanistan , Congo , Rwanda , Somalia , Sri Lanka and Uganda . He is a co-developer of narrative exposure therapy , which treats mental illnesses as a result of traumatic stress. The DFG has been funding his research on the “psychobiology of human willingness to violence and killing” since 2010 as a Reinhart Koselleck project .

Elbert is spokesman for the DFG research group 751 The Science of Social Stress and board member of "vivo international" (victims voice), which works with survivors of organized violence. Elbert was elected a member of the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy in 2009; he is also a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences . In 2010 he was awarded the Hector Science Prize and in 2013 he was accepted into the Hector Fellow Academy . For 2016 Elbert and Maggie Schauer were awarded the Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Prize . In 2019 he received the German Psychology Prize .

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  1. ↑ University of Konstanz: Curriculum Vitae Thomas Elbert ( Memento of the original from May 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 29, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.psychologie.uni-konstanz.de
  2. ↑ Press release from June 10, 2010 ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aktuelles.uni-konstanz.de
  3. ↑ Vivo website
  4. ↑ http://idw-online.de/pages/de/news275528
  5. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung of August 28, 2010 "In killer mode"
  6. ^ Member entry by Thomas Elbert (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 5, 2016.
  7. ↑ Awarding of the Hector Science Prize
  8. ^ Founding ceremony of the Hector Fellow Academy
  9. ↑ Caroline Wichmann: Leopoldina and Stifterverband honor Maggie Schauer and Thomas Elbert with the Weizsäcker Prize. National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, press release from November 8, 2016 from Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on November 8, 2016.
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SURNAME Elbert, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neuropsychologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Lindenberg in the Allgäu