Prof. Dr. Sarah Schäfer assumes W3 professorship in Landau and co-leadership of the Lieb Research Group at the LIR

The Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research warmly congratulates Prof. Dr. Sarah Schäfer on accepting the W3 professorship in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy of Children and Adolescents at the Landau campus of the Rhineland-Palatinate University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern-Landau. With this significant career advancement, the scientific community recognizes her outstanding achievements in resilience research.

Prof. Schäfer has been closely associated with the LIR for several years: Since July 2021, she has been working as a research associate in the group led by Prof. Dr. Klaus Lieb, where she has made significant contributions to research on resilience mechanisms and evidence-based resilience interventions.

In March 2023, she accepted a position as a junior professor of clinical psychology and psychotherapy for children and adolescents at the Technical University of Braunschweig, but remained affiliated with the LIR as an associate researcher in Prof. Lieb’s research group.

We are very pleased that Prof. Schäfer will remain with the institute in her new role: Effective April 1, 2026, she will additionally assume co-leadership of Prof. Lieb’s research group at the LIR and will thus bear even greater responsibility for the strategic advancement of the group’s research in the future.

With her scientific expertise, particularly in research on resilience across the lifespan, Prof. Schäfer has had a significant impact on the LIR in recent years. Of particular note are her systematic reviews, in which she synthesizes research findings and summarizes key insights from resilience research. In addition, she focuses on the development and implementation of low-threshold interventions to promote resilience in at-risk groups.

The LIR warmly congratulates Prof. Schäfer on this important career milestone and looks forward to continuing to work with her in her new role.