Chair
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Prof. Dr. Georg W. Alpers
Chair of Clinical and Biological Psychology and Psychotherapy
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University of Mannheim
School of Social Sciences
L 13, 17 – Room 208
68161 Mannheim
School of Social Sciences
L 13, 17 – Room 208
68161 Mannheim
Phone: +49 621 181-2106
E-mail: alpersuni-mannheim.de
Web: sowi.uni-mannheim.de/en/alpers
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9896-5158
E-mail: alpersuni-mannheim.de
Web: sowi.uni-mannheim.de/en/alpers
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9896-5158
Consultation hour(s):
Consultation hours of Prof. Alpers, Mondays 10:30–11:30 a.m.at the OSI.
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Consultation hours of Prof. Alpers, Mondays 10:30–11:30 a.m.at the OSI.
Please check our news page to find out if the consultation hours are taking place. If the consultation hour is cancelled, you will find a note there.
Prof. Dr. Georg W. Alpers has held the Chair of Clinical and Biological Psychology and Psychotherapy at the University of Mannheim since 2010 and is also director of the Otto Selz Institute (OSI). As a licensed psychological psychotherapist and supervisor, he heads the Psychological Outpatient Clinic there. He is a member of the steering committee of the Center for Psychological Psychotherapy (ZPP Mannheim). With his research team, he covers a wide range of topics in the Laboratory for Clinical Psychophysiology, ranging from basic experimental psychological research to psychotherapy research. His work focuses in particular on the study of anxiety and other emotions in healthy individuals and people with mental disorders.
Publications
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Research Interests
- Mental disorders: anxiety disorders (phobias, panic disorder, social phobia, fear sensitivity), eating disorders (bulimia), evaluation of psychotherapy
- Emotions and sensory perception (binocular rivalry, eye tracking, startle, EMG of facial muscles, EEG and imaging)
- Outpatient monitoring (psychophysiology and psychoneuroendocrinology)
Academic and Professional Career
Professional Career
since 2011 Managing director of the Otto-Selz-Institute Academic Career
2017 Acceptance of the offer to stay at the University of Mannheim. Rejection of the Göttingen offer. 2016 Offer of the W3-Professorship for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Georg-August-University of Göttingen. since 2010 W3 Professor of Clinical and Biological Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Mannheim. Offered the W3 Professorship for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the University of Leipzig. Acceptance of the offer to stay at the University of Mannheim. 2008 – 2010 Substitute Chairman of Biological and Clinical Psychology (W3), University of Eichstätt. Chair of Physiological and Clinical Psychology, University of Eichstätt. 2008 – 2012 Elected (and re-elected) to the Division Head of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy of the German Society of Psychology. Division of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy 2007 – 2008 Substitute W3-Professorship for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Bielefeld. Department of Psychology, University of BielefeldSubstitute W3-Professorship for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Bielefeld. Department of Psychology, University of Bielefeld 2007 Habilitation in Psychology at the Philosophical Faculty III of the University of Würzburg 2002 – 2010 Research Assistant at the Julius-Maximilian-University of Würzburg 2002 Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) at the University of Marburg 2001 Research Assistant at the Julius-Maximilians University of Würzburg 1999 – 2001 Research Associate, Behavioral Medicine Media Laboratory, Stanford University School of Medicine, California, USA 1999 – 2000 Research Associate, Laboratory of Clinical Psychopharmacology and Psychophysiology, Stanford University School of Medicine and Palo Alto VA Hospital, USA 1998 – 2001 Scholarship recipient of the Graduate Funding of the State of Hesse 1998 – 1999 Research Fellow of the DAAD 1997 Admission to exercise psychotherapy (HPG) 1991 – 1997 Psychology Student at the University of Marburg; scholarship recipient of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation Services and Offices
- Since 2011 Managing Director of the Otto-Selz-Institute
- University Representative of the State Chamber of Psychotherapists Baden-Wuerttemberg
- Member of the Ethics Committee of the University of Mannheim
- Contact person in case of sexual harassment
- Co-editor of the journal Verhaltenstherapie & Verhaltensmedizin
- Member Editorial Board: Open Psychology
- Consulting Editor: Cognition & Emotion