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
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)