Congratulations to Janina Florack on successfully completing her doctorate!
Christmas party 2025
This year's Christmas party took place on December 1. Together with the "General Psychology" working group, we first visited the ice skating rink at the Siegen Christmas market. Afterwards, we baked cookies together and weighed books. We reviewed the past year over punch. We are now looking forward to the coming year and many exciting projects.
Promotion Hans-Joachim Lenz
Congratulations to our employee Hajo Lenz on the successful completion of his doctorate on 25.11.2025!
The University of Siegen and the MSB Medical School Berlin are jointly launching a study on digital group therapy for older people. Senior citizens suffering from depression and anxiety can take part and receive help free of charge.
Start Team APs
On October 1, 2025, our team started with a kick-off meeting in research and teaching at the School of Education, Architecture and the Arts at the University of Siegen.
We are looking forward to an inspiring time in research and teaching.
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Pia Arens in an interview with the Siegener Zeitung
When parents don't become grandparents The University of Siegen has published a study on encephalopathy. How restrictive is it, and what helps those affected to accept that they are not grandmas and grandpas?
Kai Horstmann receives the "Professor of the Year 2025" award
Kai Horstmann was awarded 3rd place in the "Professor of the Year 2025" competition by the UNICUM Foundation in the natural sciences/medicine category. The award recognizes professors who support their students far beyond the classroom. Kai Horstmann is committed to ensuring that students can develop their potential regardless of their personal or social background. Through individual mentoring and application training, he strengthens students in the development of their professional and personal skills and makes it possible to experience how theory and practice interact through lectures and insights into his day-to-day research.
University of Siegen professor appointed to editorial board of major psychotherapy series
Scientific expertise from Siegen will significantly shape the German-speaking psychotherapy landscape in the future: Prof. Dr. Tim Klucken has been appointed to the editorial board of the renowned series "Standards der Psychotherapie" and "Fortschritte der Psychotherapie".
Prof. Dr. Simon Forstmeier in an interview with the Siegener Zeitung
Psychology professor Simon Forstmeier from the University of Siegen has trained therapists in Israel to care for Holocaust victims.
Anabel Büchner receives the "Heritage Dissertation Research Award"
Anabel Büchner has been awarded the prestigious "Heritage Dissertation Research Award" by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP). The award recognizes promising doctoral projects in personality and social psychology and highlights the scientific significance and quality of her research project. The award also provides financial support in the amount of USD 2000, which Anabel Büchner will use for her ongoing PACE study. The study records the behavior and experience of students in Germany, the USA and Canada in everyday life over several weeks using the experience sampling method. The aim of the study is to investigate how often people have several stable behavioral tendencies, between which they switch in everyday life, and to gain a better understanding of people with such personality traits.
In July, Karla Fliedner took part in the conference of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID) in Vienna. As part of the symposium "How life experiences can influence personality differences and development (or vice versa)", she gave a presentation on the connection between self-reported and externally reported perceptions of formative life events.
In July, Kai Horstmann and Karla Fliedner took part in the European Conference on Psychological Assessment (ECPA) in Barcelona. Karla Fliedner presented a project to develop a questionnaire that captures the subjective perception of everyday events and presented the results of an accompanying diary study. In another presentation, Kai Horstmann presented the results of a study in which automatically generated 3D items for capturing mental rotation were examined in the context of performance diagnostics.
