Official position
Chair of Biopsychology, Full-tenured professor at TU Dresden
Open-ended employment contract
Institution
Faculty Science / Department of Psychology Technische Universität Dresden
Business address
Zellescher Weg 19
01069 Dresden, Germany
Academic education and degrees
1985 | Diploma Psychology, University of Münster, Germany |
1991 | PhD, University of Trier, Germany |
1996 | Habilitation, University of Trier, Germany |
Professional career
| 1985 - 1986 | Teaching Assistant, University of Münster |
1986 - 1991 | Teaching Assistant, Department of Psychology, University of Trier |
1991 - 1996 | Assistant Professor, University of Trier |
1992 - 1993 | Postdoctoral Education, Department of Neuroanatomy and Neurobiology, University of Rochester, USA |
1996 - 1999 | Research fellow (Heisenberg scholarship from the German Research Foundation, DFG) at the Center for Psychobiological and Psychosomatic Research at the University of Trier |
1999 - 2003 | Full Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Düsseldorf, Germany |
2003 - present | Full Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, TU Dresden, Germany |
Since 2014 | Dean of the School of Science, Technische Universität Dresden |
Honors, awards and positions
1991 | Dissertation Award, University of Trier |
1992 | Young Investigator Award, Society for the Immunocompromised Host |
1995 | Neil Miller Award, Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research |
1996 | Heisenberg scholarship, German Research Foundation |
1997 | Innovation Award, Foundation for the Advancement of the Center for Psychobiology and Psychosomatic Research |
2008 | Elsevier Citation Award for the Top Cited Paper in 2006 and 2007 |
2008 - 2016 | Member of the DFG Fachkollegium 110 „Psychology“ |
2008 | Guest Editor: Psychoneuroendocrinology |
Since 2010 | Editorial Board Member: Psychoneuroendocrinology, Psychosomatic Medicine, Stress, International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, Stress & Health |
Since 2010 | Member of the Senate of the Technische Universität Dresden |
Since 2013 | Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina |
Since 2017 | Past-President, International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology |
10 most important peer-reviewed papers (10 out of 410], SCOPUS h-index: [124])
Kirschbaum C, Tietz, A, Skoluda N, Dettenborn L. Hair as a retrospective calendar of cortisol production Increased cortisol incorporation into hair in the third trimester of pregnancy. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2009;34:32-37.
Dettenborn L, Tietze A, Bruckner F,
Kirschbaum C. Higher cortisol content in hair among long-term unemployed individuals compared to controls. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2010;35(9):1404-1409.
Stalder T,
Kirschbaum C, Heinze K, Steudte S, Foley P et al. Use of hair cortisol analysis to detect hypercortisolism during active drinking phases in alcohol-dependent individuals. Biological Psychology. 2010;85(3):357-360.
Steudte S, Kolassa IT, Stalder T, Pfeiffer A,
Kirschbaum C, Elbert T. Increased cortisol concentrations in hair of severely traumatized Ugandan individuals with PTSD. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2011;36(8):1193-1200.
Stalder T,
Kirschbaum C. Analysis of cortisol in hair - state of the art and future directions. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. 2012;26(7):1019-1029.
Stalder T, Steudte S, Alexander N, Miller R, Gao W …
Kirschbaum C. Cortisol in hair, body mass index and stress-related measures. Biological Psychology. 2012;90(3);218-223.
Gao W, Stalder T, Foley P, Rauh M, Denga H,
Kirschbaum C. Quantitative analysis of steroid hormones in human hair using acolumn-switching LC–APCI–MS/MS assay. Journal of Chromatography B. 2013;928:1-8.
Stalder T,
Kirschbaum C, Alexander N, Bornstein SR, Gao W et al. Cortisol in Hair and the Metabolic Syndrome. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 2013;98(6):2573-2580.
Steudte-Schmiedgen S,
Kirschbaum C, Gao W, Alexander N, Schönfeld S et al. Reply to: Linking Hair Cortisol Levels to Phenotypic Heterogeneity of Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms in Highly Traumatized Chinese Women. Biological Psychiatry. 2015.
Iob E,
Kirschbaum C, Steptoe A. Persistent depressive symptoms, HPA-axis hyperactivity, and inflammation: the role of cognitive-affective and somatic symptoms. Mol Psychiatry. 2020;25(5):1130-1140.
Foto: Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften - Leopoldina
