Official position
Head of the Psychobiology of Stress Unit at the Department of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine
Institution
University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Business address
Fetscherstraße 74
01307 Dresden
Academic education and degrees
2009 | Diploma in Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany |
2013 | Doctor Rerum Naturalium (equivalent to PhD) in Psychology “summa cum laude”, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany |
2020 | Board-certified psychotherapist (behavioural therapy), Technische Universität Dresden, Germany |
Professional career
2007 | Research internship at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Science, Leipzig, Germany |
2007 - 2009 | Undergraduate research assistant at the Department of Biopsychology, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany |
2009 - 2013 | Doctoral researcher at Department of Biopsychology, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany |
2010 | Visiting research assistant at the Department of Psychological Sciences, Kent State University, USA |
2013 - 2017 | Research associate at the Department of Biopsychology, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany |
2014 - 2015 | Visiting postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Psychiatry, Oxford University, United Kingdom |
2015 - 2017 | Psychologist at the trauma unit at the Department of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany |
Since 2018 | Head of the Psychobiology of Stress Unit and psychotherapist at the Mother-Baby Unit at the Department of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany |
Honors, awards and positions
2013 | Werner Straub Dissertation Award for an outstanding doctoral thesis, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany |
2014 | Commerzbank Award for an outstanding doctoral thesis |
2014 | Postdoctoral research fellowship from the German Research Foundation for a research visit at the Department of Psychiatry, Oxford University, United Kingdom |
2018 | Research award from the Falk von Reichenbach Foundation,
German Society for Psychotraumatology (DeGPT) |
2020 | Habilitation scholarship for women, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden |
10 most important peer-reviewed papers (10 out of 35: SCOPUS h-index: 19)
Schindler L, Stalder T, Kirschbaum C, Plessow F, Schönfeld S …
Steudte-Schmiedgen S. Cognitive functioning in posttraumatic stress disorder before and after cognitive-behavioral therapy. Journal of Anxiety Disorders. 2020;102265.
Petrowski K, Wichmann S, Pyrc J, Kirschbaum C,
Steudte-Schmiedgen S. Hair Cortisol predicts Avoidance Behavior and Depressiveness after first-time and single Event Trauma Exposure in Motor Vehicle Crash Victims. Stress. 2020;1-28.
Trautmann S, Muehlhan M, Kirschbaum C, Wittchen HU, Höfler M …
Steudte-Schmiedgen S. Biological stress indicators as risk markers for increased alcohol use following traumatic experiences. Addiction Biology. 2018;23:281-290.
Steudte-Schmiedgen S, Wichmann S, Stalder T, Hilbert K, Muehlhan M et al. Hair cortisol concentrations and cortisol stress reactivity in generalized anxiety disorder, major depression and their comorbidity. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 2017;84:184-190.
Steudte-Schmiedgen S, Kirschbaum C, Alexander N, Stalder T. An integrative model linking traumatization, cortisol dysregulation and posttraumatic stress disorder: insight from recent hair cortisol findings. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 2016;69:124-135.
Steudte-Schmiedgen S, Stalder T, Schönfeld S, Wittchen HU, Trautmann S et al. Hair cortisol concentrations and cortisol stress reactivity predict PTSD symptom increase after trauma exposure during military deployment. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2015;59:123-133.
Steudte-Schmiedgen S, Stalder T, Kirschbaum C, Weber F, Hoyer J, Plessow F. Trauma exposure is associated with increased context-dependent adjustments of cognitive control in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder and healthy controls. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. 2014;14:1-10.
Steudte S, Kirschbaum C, Gao W, Alexander N, Schönfeld S et al. Hair cortisol as a biomarker of traumatization in healthy individuals and posttraumatic stress disorder patients. Biological Psychiatry. 2013;74:639-646.
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;36:1193–1200.
Steudte S, Stalder T, Dettenborn L, Klumbies E, Foley P et al. Decreased hair cortisol concentrations in generalised anxiety disorder. Psychiatry Research. 2011;186:310–314.
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