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Prof. Dr. Oliver Tüscher

Research Group Leader and Head of Clinical Investigation Center LIR

Kontakt

Leibniz-Institut für Resilienzforschung gGmbH
Wallstraße 7
55122 Mainz

+49 (0)6131 89448-00
General Information
Year of Birth

1971

Current Position

Research Group Leader and Head of Clinical Investigation Center (CIC), Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research (LIR), Mainz, Germany

Chair and Director, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine University Medicine Halle (Saale) of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) and German Center for Mental Health (DZPG), partner site Halle-Jena-Magdeburg, Halle (Saale), Germany

University training and degrees
10/1992 – 09/1995

Medical School, University of Bochum, Germany

10/1995 – 11/2000

Medical School, University of Heidelberg, Germany

 

Advanced academic qualifications
12/2011

Habilitation for Neurology: “Neurobehavioral mechanisms of emotion processing” University of Freiburg, Germany (supervisor: Prof. C. Weiller)

03/1996 – 03/1999

Graduate program in Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, equivalent to American M.D./Ph.D. programs, Prof. Dr. W. B. Huttner, Department of Neurobiology, University of Heidelberg, Germany, graduated 02/2002 with Dr. med.

 

Postgraduate professional career
Since 10/2024

W3-Professor of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Medical Faculty of Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), Germany

Since 2023

Clinician Adjunct (PI), Institute for Molecular Biology (IMB), Mainz

Since 01/2020

Research Group Leader and Head of the Clinical Investigation Center (CIC) at the Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research (LIR), Mainz, Germany

Since 01/2018

Research Group Leader and Head of the Clinical Investigation Center (CIC) at the German Resilience Center (DRZ) Mainz, Germany        

08/2016 – 10/2024

W2-Professor of Clinical Resilience Research at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the German Resilience Center (DRZ) Mainz

Since 02/2015

Vice-chair, Dept. of Psychiatry, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany

Since 07/2014

Director, Clinical Investigation Center (CIC), DRZ Mainz, Germany

Since 08/2013

Attending in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

07/2013

Board certification for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

Since 2012

Director, Center for Clinical Trials on Mental Disorders

Since 2010

Lab head, Emotion Regulation and Impulse Control Imaging Group (ERIC)

10/2010

Board certification for Neurology

04/2010 – to date

Residency, Dept. of Psychiatry, Prof. Dr. K. Lieb, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany

07/2009 – 10/2010

Residency, Dept. of Psychiatry, Prof. Dr. M. Berger, University of Freiburg, Germany

04/2006 – 10/2010

Head, Emotion Regulation and Impulse Control Imaging Group (ERIC) at the Freiburg Brain Imaging, University of Freiburg, Germany

04/2006 – 06/2009

Residency, Dept. of Neurology, Prof. Dr. C. Weiller, University of Freiburg, Germany

02/2003 – 03/2006

Postdoc and supervised consultant service Div. of Neuropsychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Prof. Dr. D. Silbersweig, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA

04/2001 – 01/2003

Residency (22 months), Departement of Neurology, Prof. Dr. C. Weiller, UKE, University of Hamburg, Germany

 

Other professional activities or honors
01/2019

Secondo loco appointment listing for W3-Prof. (Chair), Univ. Oldenburg

04/2018 – 03/2022

EU2020-777084 “DynaMORE” personalised in-silico model of mental health in the face of adversity, e.g., stress resilience, Work package leader

06/2018

Quarto loco appointment listing for W3-Prof. (Chair), Univ. Lübeck

07/2016 – 06/2020

DFG-CRC 1193 Neurobiology of resilience PI SP C04 with M. Wibral

02/2016

Secondo loco appointment listing for W2-Prof. Psychiatry, Univ. of Würzburg

07/2015 – 06/2019

PI (Functional Imaging) BMBF-Collaborative Research Project Normal aging: „Transfer of cognitive training gains in cognitively healthy aging“

07/2013 – 06/2016

Landesförderung Stiftung Rheinland-Pfalz für Innovation: „Mainzer Resilienz-Projekt (MARP)“ Kalisch, Lieb, Nitsch, Zipp, Mobascher, Tüscher

05/2000

DAAD-Stipend IAS-Programm

03/1996 – 03/1999

DFG-Stipend Graduiertenkolleg Molekulare und zelluläre Neurobiologie

11/2000

Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

 

Transparenz / Erklärung von Interessen

Herr Professor Dr. Oliver Tüscher ist seit 2016 Professor für klinische Resilienz Forschung an der Universitätsmedizin Mainz und dort stellvertretender Direktor in der Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie und seit 2020 Arbeitsgruppen-Leiter am Leibniz-Institut für Resilienzforschung. Er hat seit 2018 keine persönlichen Honorare für Beratertätigkeiten, Fortbildungsveranstaltungen, Vorträge oder Stellungnahmen von pharmazeutischen Unternehmen oder Medizinprodukteherstellern erhalten.

Selected Publications

Petri-Romão P, Mediavilla R, Restrepo-Henao A, Puhlmann LMC, Zerban M, Ahrens KF, Barbui C, Basten U, Bayón C, Chmitorz A, Felez-Nobrega M, Kollman B, Lieb K, McDaid D, McGreevy KR, Melchior M, Muñoz-Sanjosé A, Neumann R, Park A-L, Plichta MM, Purgato M, Reif A, Schenk C, Schick A, Sebastian A, Sijbrandij M, Smith P, Tüscher O, Wessa M, Yuen KSL, Haro JM, Ayuso-Mateos JL, Kalisch R (2025) Evidence for a role for positive appraisal style in stress resilience. Nat Commun. Accepted in principle

Zhao N, Vogel DL, Kubiak T, Mey LK, Morello K, Tüscher O (2025) Self-compassion in the moment: Dynamic changes of compassionate and uncompassionate self-responding in daily life. J Couns Psychol. doi: 10.1037/cou0000798. Epub ahead of print.

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Adorjan K, Dong MS, Wratil PR, Schmacke NA, Weinberger, Steffen J, Osterman, A, Choukér A, Mueller TT, Jebrini T, Wiegand HF, Tüscher O, Lieb K, Hornung V, Falkai P, Klein M, Keppler OT, Koutsouleris N (2024) Development and Validation of a Simple Tool for Predicting Pandemic-Related Psychological Distress Among Health Care Workers. J Technol Behav Sci. 9, 552–566. doi: 10.1007/s41347-023-00380-9

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Ahrens KF, Schenk C, Kollmann B, Puhlmann LMC, Neumann RJ, Schäfer SK, Reis D, Basten U, Weichert D, Fiebach CJ, Lutz B, Wessa M, Repple J, Lieb K, Tüscher O, Reif A, Kalisch R, Plichta MM (2024) Resilience to major life events: Advancing trajectory modeling and resilience factor identification by controlling for background stressor exposure. Am Psychol. 79(8):1076-1091. doi: 10.1037/amp0001315

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Andres E, Chuan-Peng H, Gerlicher AMV, Meyer B, Tüscher O, Kalisch R (2024) Replication study on the role of dopamine-dependent prefrontal reactivations in human extinction memory retrieval. Nat Commun. 15(1):2699. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-46936-y

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Fischer FU, Gerber S, Tüscher O (2024) Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. Mathematical model of the Alzheimer's disease biomarker cascade demonstrates statistical pitfall in identifying surrogates of cognitive reserve. iScience. 27(11):111188. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.111188

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Marciniak MA, Shanahan L, Yuen KSL, Veer IM, Walter H, Tuescher O, Kobylińska D, Kalisch R, Hermans E, Binder H, Kleim B (2024) Burst versus continuous delivery design in digital mental health interventions: Evidence from a randomized clinical trial. Digit Health. 10:20552076241249267. doi: 10.1177/20552076241249267

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Petri-Romão P, Engen H, Rupanova A, Puhlmann L, Zerban M, Neumann RJ, Malyshau A, Ahrens KF, Schick A, Kollmann B, Wessa M, Walker H, Plichta MM, Reif A, Chmitorz A, Tuescher O, Basten U, Kalisch R (2024) Self-report assessment of Positive Appraisal Style (PAS): Development of a process-focused and a content-focused questionnaire for use in mental health and resilience research. PLoS One. 19(2):e0295562. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0295562

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Reinwarth AC, Wicke FS, Rückert KK, Schattenberg JM, Tüscher O, Wild PS, Münzel T, König J, Lackner KJ, Pfeiffer N, Beutel ME (2024) Change of self-rated physical health predicts mortality in aging individuals: results of a population-based cohort study. Arch Public Health. 82(1):130. doi: 10.1186/s13690-024-01363-9

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Wenzel M, Ringwald WR, Kaurin A, Tüscher O, Kubiak T, Wright AGC (2024) Neuroticism is Associated With Greater Affective Variability at High Levels of Momentary Affective Well-Being, but With Lower Affective Variability at Low Levels of Momentary Affective Well-Being. J Pers. doi: 10.1111/jopy.12972. Online ahead of print.

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