10/2023 Deputy Scientific Director, Institute for Interdisciplinary Conflict and Violence Research, Bielefeld University, Germany
10/2023 Professor (full) of Clinical Psychology & Violence Research, Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University, Germany
08/2020 Emmy-Noether Junior Research Group Leader, Institute for Interdisciplinary Conflict and Violence Research & Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University, Germany
01/2021 – 09/2023 Assistant Professor of Clinical Developmental Psychopathology, Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University, Germany
11/2016 – 07/2020 Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University, Germany
01/2015 – 12/2016 Postdoctoral Research Fellow and subdivision leader Consequences of trauma and violence at the Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
2013 Dr. rer. nat. (PhD), University of Konstanz, Germany, Degree: summa cum laude
04/2011 – 12/2014 Scientific associate at the Department of Psychology and at the Center of Excellence for Psychotraumatology, University of Konstanz, Germany
2011 Diploma (MSc) in Psychology at the Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany,

Clinical Education

Awards and Honors

2023 Offered Full Professorship (W3) for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology at the Otto-Friedrich-University of Bamberg, Germany (declined)
2022 Offered Full Professorship (W3) for Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy at the University of Mannheim, Germany (declined)
2021 – 2023 Membership in the Junge Kolleg of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Science and the Arts
2020 Admission to the Emmy Noether Program of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
2019/2020 Postdoctoral Fellow of the Daimler and Benz Foundation
2019 Offered Junior Professorship (Assistant Professorship) for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology at the University of Witten-Herdecke, Germany (declined)
2018 Nomination for the academics-Nachwuchspreis 2018: Young Scientist of the Year (Top-10 Position)
2017 DeGPT Advancement Award of the Falk-von-Reichenbach Foundation and the German-Speaking Society of Psychotraumatology
2014 Poster award at the DGPPN, Berlin for the study: Child maltreatment, mental health, and modifications in the DNA methylation in the HPA axis: a study with children in Tanzania

Aktuelle Forschungsthemen

Violence against children: global prevalence, drivers, consequences, and prevention
Child abuse and neglect
Psychological trauma and trauma-related disorders
Mental health in conflict and crisis regions

Herr Prof. Dr. Tobias Hecker