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Portrait of PD Dr. phil. Dipl. Psych. Joe Simon

PD Dr. phil. Dipl. Psych. Joe Simon

Scientific Staff (Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics)
Research Group Leader (Experimental Psychosomatics and Clinical Neuroscience)

Focus

Functional neuroimaging, eating disorders, obesity, experimental methods in psychosomatic reasearch, gut-brain axis, hormonal satiety regulation


+49 6221 56-8774

Medical/Professional background

since 2012

Research Associate, Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany.

2017

Licence to practice in psychotherapy (psychologischer Psychotherapeut), behavioral therapy

Scientific background

2018

Venia legendi for experimental psychosomatics, Medical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg

2014

Didactic Training (Dozentschulung, Medical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg)

2010

Ph.D. in clinical psychology, University of Heidelberg, Germany (Note: “summa cum laude”)

2006

Diploma in Psychology, University of Constance, Germany

Grants

2010 – 2012

Postdoc fellow of the Heidelberg University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of experimental psychopathology and neurophysiology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany

2007 – 2010

PhD-scholarship from the „Landesgraduiertenföderung” in the scope of the research training group “Goals and Preferences”, University of Heidelberg, Germany

Professional memberships

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs)

Deutscher Hochschulverband (DHV)

Deutsche PsychotherapeutenVereinigung (DPtV)

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Essstörungen (DGESS)

Société luxembourgeoise de Psychologie (SLP)

Funded projects

2018 – 2021

Investigating the interaction of emotional reactivity and neural reward processing in patients with complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)

2017 – 2019

Change in disorder-related autobiographical memory during weight restoration in AN patients (Schweizerische Anorexia Nervosa Stiftung)

2015 – 2017

Homeostatic and non-homeostatic processing of nutrients in anorexia nervosa (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)