Prof. Dr. Tobias Hecker

Career

• 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

• 2020 Licensed to practice psychotherapy with children and adolescents
• 2019 Licensed to practice psychotherapy with adult)

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