Ruhr University Bochum
Department of Cognitive Psychology
44780 Bochum, Germany
Room: IB 6-75
Phone: +49 234 32-24498
e-mail: Christian.J.Merz@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
since 2017: Principal Investigator
SFB 1289 "Extinction Learning", Ruhr University Bochum
since 2015: Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Cognitive Psychology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Ruhr University Bochum
2014-2017: Principal Investigator
DFG Research Group "Extinction Learning: Neural Mechanisms, Behavioural Manifestations, and Clinical Implications" (FOR 1581)
2014-2015: Interim Professor (W2) for Biological and Clinical Psychology
Trier University
2012-2014: Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Cognitive Psychology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Ruhr University Bochum
2011-2012: Postdoctoral Researcher
Psychotherapy and Systems Neuroscience, Justus Liebig University Giessen
2008-2011: Research Assistant
Department of Cognitive Psychology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Ruhr University Bochum
2008: Student Assistant
Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, Justus Liebig University Giessen
2006-2007: Student Assistant
Psychological Psychotherapy (Supervision), Justus Liebig University Giessen
2017: Habilitation for Cognitive and Biological Psychology
Ruhr University Bochum
Topic: “Neurobiology of emotional learning processes: Basics, neuroendocrine modulation, and clinical implications”
2011: Dr. rer. nat., summa cum laude
Ruhr University Bochum
Topic: “Influence of stress and sex hormones on fear conditioning under different learning conditions"
09/2007: Diploma in Psychology
Jusus Liebig University Giessen
2002-2007: Psychology Student (Minor Subject: Medicine)
Justus Liebig University Giessen
Peer-Reviewed Journals
* shared authorship
Book Chapters:
German Psychological Society (DGPs)
German Society for Psychophysiology and its Applications (DGPA)
International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology (ISPNE)
Research Funding Programs
Consulting Editor
Peer-Reviewed Journals
Acta psychologica; American Journal of Psychiatry; Behavioural Brain Research; Behavioral Neuroscience; Behavior Research Methods; Behaviour Research and Therapy; Biological Psychiatry; Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging; Biological Psychology; BMC Women's Health; Brain Imaging and Behavior; Brain Sciences; Clinical Psychological Science; Cognitive, Affective and Behvioral Neuroscience; Contraception; Depression and Anxiety; European Neuropsychopharmacology; Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience; Hormones and Behavior; Human Brain Mapping; International Journal of Psychophysiology; Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry; Journal of Experimental Psychology; Journal of Individual Differenes; Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Journal of Neuroscience; Journal of Neuroscience Research; Journal of Vision; Memory; Memory & Cognition; Motivation and Emotion; Nature Communications; Nature Protocols; Neurobiology of Learning and Memory; Neurobiology of Stress; Neuroimage; Neuropsychobiology; Neuropsychologia; Neuropsychopharmacology; Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, Physiology and Behavior; PLOS ONE; Psychological Medicine; Psychological Reports; Psychoneuroendocrinology; Psychopathology Review; Psychopharmacology; Psychophysiology; Science Advances; Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience; Social Neuroscience; Stress; The Cerebellum; Thinking and Reasoning; Translational Psychiatry; Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie.
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