We are always looking for motivated and interested students who are interested in writing a doctoral or master's thesis in the field of psychosomatics as part of their studies in medicine, clinical psychology and psychotherapy, neuroscience or biology.

You can find an overview of the various subject areas of our research sections and working groups on the research pages of our website.

If you are interested in working in one of our projects or research groups, please contact the named project leaders by email.

Please send a short letter of motivation (.pdf or .docx) with your email, stating why you are interested in certain topics/research methods, when and for how long you would like to be involved in a research project and whether you would be prepared to take a semester off for this. In addition, we would be pleased to receive your CV and, if applicable, a list of publications so that we can get to know you better. References are not required at this stage.

Due to the large number of enquiries, we are only able to accept some of the applications. However, we endeavour to answer all applications personally. However, if you have not received a reply within four weeks, please assume that we are unable to offer you a suitable project at this time.

We look forward to receiving your application!

There arecurrentlyno projects for which doctoral or master's students are being sought.

• Psychotherapy process research(Prof. Dr Jana Volkert)
• Molecular psychosomatics(Prof. Dr rer. nat. Stefan Reber)
• Automated pain recognition(Prof. Dr Steffen Walter)
• Emotions & pain experience(Dr Stephan Frisch)
• Translational research(Dr Katja Weimer)
• Psycho-oncology and consultative psychosomatics(Dr Klaus Hönig)