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Prof. Dr. Lena Jelinek

Franziska Miegel

Curriculum Vitae

2020 – present Founder and head of the Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders Group, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
2016 – present Co-Head of Clinical Neuropsychology Working Group, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
2017 Professor (according to §17(1) HmbHG) in Clinical Psychology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
2014 – 2016 Vice-Head of the Clinical Neuropsychology Unit (under Prof. Steffen Moritz), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Germany
2015 – present Supervisor for postgraduate psychotherapy training in cognitive behavioral therapy
2004 – 2014 Researcher, Clinical Neuropsychology Working Group, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
2012 Habilitation an Inaugural Lecture in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (German qualification to apply for tenureship), University of Hamburg, Department of Medicine, Germany
2005 – present Lecturer for postgraduate psychotherapy training in cognitive behavioral therapy
2004 – 2009 Postgraduate psychotherapy training in cognitive behavioral therapy, Hamburg, Germany
2004 – 2007 Ph.D. dissertation on memory fragmentation in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), University of Hamburg, Germany
2006 Visiting researcher, Phoenix Australia (formerly: Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health, ACPMH), University of Melbourne, Australia
1999 – 2004 M.Sc. (Diplom) in Psychology, Minor: Neurology, University of Hamburg, Germany
2002 Research assistant, Conflict Management Research Group, University of South Australia, Australia

Research Interests

  • (meta)cognitive interventions
  • exposure and response prevention
  • digital interventions
  • cognitive biases
  • information processing and memory functioning in PTSD, OCD, depression and schizophrenia

Independent Research Funding

2020 – 2021 Funding of a study entitled “Treatment, Efficacy, and Mechanisms of Metacognitive Training (TEAM)” (LFF-OS 80-2019) from the Landesforschungsförderung Hamburg
2020 – 2021 Funding for an intervention study on railsuicidality from the Stiftung Deutsche Depressionshilfe
2019 Funding for a project entitled “Aggressiveness in borderline personality disorder (BPD)” from the Association of North German Universities [Verbund Norddeutscher Universitäten]
2018 Funding for a project entitled “Development of implicit assessment of aggression in OCD” from the Association of North German Universities [Verbund Norddeutscher Universitäten]
2017 – 2021 Funding for a project entitled "Development and evaluation of a cultural adapted Metacognitive Training for Depression (D-MCT) for refugees" from Asklepios proresearch
2017 – 2019 Funding for a study on implicit assessment of suicidality from the Federal Ministry of Health (Bundesministerium für Gesundheit)
2017 – 2019 Funding for a randomized-controlled trial on the evaluation of metacognitive training for Depression (D-MCT) in outpatient psychiatric-psychotherapeutic care from Asklepios proresearch
2016 – 2017 Funding for an intervention study entitled “Metacognitive Training for Depression-Development and Evaluation of Treatment Modules to Reduce Suicidality” from the Stiftung Deutsche Depressionshilfe
2015 – 2017 Funding for an intervention study on the long-term effects of metacognitive training for depression (D-MCT) from the Society to Promote Research on Rehabilitation in Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schleswig-Holstein
2012 – 2014 Funding for an intervention study entitled "Metacognitive Training for Depression" from the Society to Promote Research on Rehabilitation in Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schleswig-Holstein
2009 Young Scientist Award from the German Psychological Society (DGPs)
2009 Young Scientist Award from the German-Speaking Society for Traumatic Stress (GePT)
2009 – 2010 Funding for an intervention study entitled “Association Splitting - A Novel Method to Reduce Craving” from the Werner Otto Foundation (WOI)
2009 – 2011 Funding for a study entitled “Association Splitting: Mechanisms of Change and Evaluation of a Novel Therapeutic Intervention to Reduce Obsessive Thoughts” by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
2006 Scholarship for a research stay in Australia from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
2004 – 2006 Ph.D. scholarship from the University of Hamburg, Germany

Selected Publications

You can find all publications here.