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Prof. Dr. Armin Zlomuzica (Head of Department)

Department of Behavioral and Clinical Neuroscience

Bochumer Fenster

Room 3/03

44787 Bochum

E-Mail: armin.zlomuzica@ruhr-uni-bochum.de

Phone: 0234 32 28484


Curriculum Vitae


Since 2021: Professorship (W3) „Behavioral and Clinical Neuroscience”

Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

2021-2025: Heisenberg Fellow of the German Research Foundation

2015-2016: InterimProfessorship for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy

Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

2014-2020: Professorship (W1) „Behavioral and Clinical Neuroscience”

Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

2009-2011: Postdoc and Teaching Assistant

Institute of Experimental Psychology, Section Behavioral Genetics and Neuropsychopharmacology, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany

2006-2008: PhD Student and Teaching Assistant

Institute of Experimental Psychology, Section Physiological Psychology, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany

2000-2006: Scientific staff member

Department of Sleep Medicine and Neuropsychology, Rhein-Ruhr Clinics, Essen, Germany

2017: State approbation as Psychological Psychotherapist in Germany

2017: Certification for Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapist for Adults

2008: Dr. rer. nat.

Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany

2005: Diploma in Psychology

Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany

2021-2025: Zlomuzica A (Principal Investigator), Woud ML, Margraf J: Project Title: “Modification of CS-UCS contingencies in anxiety disorders” DFG ZL 59/6-1“, supported by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)

2020-2025: Zlomuzica A (Principal Investigator): Project Title: “New therapy options for anxiety disorders” DFG ZL 59/4-1“, supported by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)

2020-2023: Zlomuzica A (Principal Investigator): Project Title: “Generalization in the exposure therapy” DFG ZL 59/5-1“, supported by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)

2017-2021: Zlomuzica A (Principal Investigator), Margraf J; Project Title: “Extinction in the therapy context- DFG ZL 59/3-1“, supported by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)

2016-2019: Member of the Young Academy (Junges Kolleg), North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts

2015-2017: Member of the Global Young Faculty, Mercator Research Foundation

2014-2017: Zlomuzica A (Principal Investigator), Schneider S, Margraf J; Project Title: “Exposure therapy outcome in specific phobia: the significance of extinction learning and stress system activity- DFG ZL 59/2-2“, supported by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)

2014-2017: Zlomuzica A, Start-up funding, supported by the Initial and Interim Funding of the Ruhr-University Bochum

2014: Novice premium from the Ruhr-University Bochum

2014: Listed 1st place for the “Clinical and Behavioral Neuroscience” Professorship at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

2016: Travel Award, European College of Neuropsychopharmacology

2013: Travel Award, International Behavioral Neuroscience Society

2012-2013: Zlomuzica A (Principal Investigator), Schneider S, Margraf J; Project Title: “Clinical Implications of Extinction Learning and Renewal in Specific Phobia- DFG ZL 59/2-1 “, supported by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)

2012: Listed 1st place for the “Biological Psychology” Professorship at the University of Koblenz Landau, Germany

2011: Zlomuzica A (Principal Investigator): Project Title: “The impact of genetic variation on extinction learning and symptom improvement during exposure-based psychotherapy” supported by the Initial and Interim Funding of the Ruhr-University Bochum

2011: Travel Award, German Association for Psychophysiology and its Applications

Reviewer for numerous scientific journals: e.g. Addiction Biology; Amino Acids;  Applied Cognitive Psychology; Behavioural Brain Research; Behavioural Pharmacology; Brain Research Bulletin; British Journal of Pharmacology; Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology; CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics; Comprehensive Psychiatry; Emotion; Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience; Genes, Brain & Behaviour; Learning & Memory; Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry; Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology; Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry Journal of Neuroscience Methods; Molecular Psychiatry; Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology; Neuroscience Discovery; Plos One; Pharmacology, Biochemistry & Behavior; Synapse; Translational Psychiatry……

Editorial and Scientific Advisory Boards:

Psychology and Neuroscience (Editorial Board)

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience  (Associate editor)

Psychology and Neuroscience (Editorial Board)

Open Psychology (de Gruyter) (Editorial Board)

Member of the Steering Committee of the Research Department for Neuroscience at the RUB

Member of the Examination Committee of the Faculty of Psychology at the RUB

Study advisor of the Clinical Psychology Master at the RUB

Member of the Society for Neuroscience (SFN)

Member of the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society (IBNS)

Member of the European Brain and Behaviour Society (EBBS)

Member of the German Association for Behavioral Therapy (DGVT)