#11TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON RESILIENCE RESEARCH
NEW CHALLENGES, NEW SOLUTIONS
How can we navigate an unsafe world? What keeps us sane? How can we heal trauma and support the most exposed?
Discuss latest developments in stress resilience research and practice with the world's leading experts.
Recent insights, new data, conceptual debate, from basic to applied research, from animal models to human studies.
PLUS: many opportunities for early-career researchers.
September 24-26, 2025 Mainz, Germany
(30 min. from Frankfurt International Airport)
September 23: Free Methods Workshop “Resilience quantification in humans”
Since 2015, the symposium has been gathering the international resilience research community and shaped the field. Examples? See here.
The symposium takes place as an in-person meeting. How to get there.
Registration and abstract submission deadline: July 21.
Last chance to take advantage of the early bird offer – extended until May 30. Get your ticket here!
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS AND PROGRAM
Elena Andres, Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research (LIR), Mainz
Rosemary Bagot, Department of Psychology, McGill University & Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics & Mental Health, Montréal - Get to know Rosemary Bagot here!
Joeri Bordes, Neurocentre Magendie, University of Bordeaux
Maria Bragesjö, Centre for Psychiatry Research, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet & Stockholm Health Care Services, Region Stockholm
Dominique de Quervain, Department of Biomedicine & University Psychiatric Clinics, University of Basel
Haakon Engen, Institute of Military Psychology, Norwegian Armed Forces Joint Medical Service, Oslo
Andrew Holmes, Laboratory of Behavioral and Genomic Neuroscience, NIAAA, NIH
Anders Kjærgaard, Department of Military Psychology, University of Copenhagen
Birgit Kleim, Institute of Psychology, University of Zurich
Floris Klumpers, Behavioural Science Institute & Donders Institute, Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University Nijmegen - Get to know Floris Klumpers here!
Aaron Laycock, Department of Psychology, University of York
Penny Lewis, School of Psychology, Cardiff University
Cade McCall, Department of Psychology, University of York
Mohammed R Milad, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston - Get to know Mohammed R Milad here!
Patricia Molina, Department of Fundamental Neuroscience, University of Lausanne
Marianne Müller, Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research (LIR), Mainz & Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Mainz
Niels Niethard, Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioural Neurobiology, University of Tübingen - Get to know Niels Niethard here!
Kai Spiegelhalder, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Center - University of Freiburg
Albrecht Stroh, Institute of Physiology I, University Hospital Münster & LIR, Mainz
and 10 early-career scientists short talk speakers (tba)