Prof. Dr. Tim Klucken, Dipl.-Psych.
Homepage Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy
![]() | Psychologischer Psychotherapeut (certified clinical psychologist, CBT)Consultation hours: by appointment Student concerns should always be directed to the Secretaries Office.
Postal address:
Phone: +49 271 740-4106 Fax: +49 271 740 -14106 Office: US-V 101
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (Link to the complete list of publications)
Machulska, A., Eiler, T. J., … & Klucken T. (2021). Approach bias retraining through virtual reality in smokers willing to quit smoking: A randomized-controlled study. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 141, 103858. IF: 5.2.
Klucken, T., Kruse, O., Schweckendiek, J., Kuepper, Y., Mueller, E. M., Hennig, J., & Stark, R. (2016). No evidence for blocking the return of fear by disrupting reconsolidation prior to extinction learning. Cortex, 79, 112–122. IF: 4.7.
Klucken, T., Tabbert, K., Schweckendiek, J., Merz, C. J., Kagerer, S., Vaitl, D., & Stark, R. (2009). Contingency learning in human fear conditioning involves the ventral striatum. Human Brain Mapping, 30, 3636–3644. IF: 5.1.
ACADEMIC CAREER
seit 2016 | Professor (W3, Chair) for Clinical Psychology. University of Siegen |
2015 - 2016 | Interim Professor (W3) for Clinical Psychology. University of Siegen |
2014 - 2015
| Akademischer Rat (senior researcher, permanent position) at the Chair for Psychotherapy and Systems Neuroscience. Justus-Liebig-University Gießen |
2013 - 2014 | Interim Professor (W3) for Clinical Psychology for Children and Adolescents. Justus-Liebig-University Gießen |
2012 - 2013 | Akademischer Rat (senior researcher) at the Chair for Psychotherapy and Systems Neuroscience. Justus-Liebig-University Gießen |
2010 - 2012 | Post-doctoral Scholarship (Just’Us). |
2007 - 2009 | Doctoral Scholarship, awarded by the DFG (German Research Foundation) graduate school "NeuroAct - Gehirn und Verhalten" (DFG-885) |
SCIENTIFIC QUALIFICATIONS
2013 | Habilitation (Venia Legendi in psychology). |
2009 | Promotion (Dr. rer. nat.), grade summa cum laude. |
APPOINTMENTS AND NOMINATIONS
2016 | Appointment: Professor (W3, Chair) for Clinical Psychology. University of Siegen |
2016 | Appointment offer: Professor (W2) for Psychotherapy and Diagnostics (also Head of Psychotherapy Outpatient Department). Technische Universität Braunschweig. Declined. |
2016 | Nomination list: Professor (W3) for Clinical Psychology. Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg. |
2015 | Nomination list (secundo loco): Professor (W2) for Clinical and Experimental Behavioral Medicine. Ruhr-University Bochum. |
2014 | Nomination list (tertio loco): Professor (W2) for Experimental Clinical Psychology. Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg. |
2013 | Appointment offer: Tenure Track Professor (W1) for Biological Psychology. University of Koblenz-Landau. Declined. |
2012 | Appointment offer: Professor (W1) for General Psychology. University of Koblenz-Landau. Declined. |
GRANTS AND FUNDING ACQUISITION
2020 | 3,200,000 Euro. DFG-Forschergruppe. Stichwort: "Affective and cognitive mechanisms of specific Internet-use disorders" (Verbundkoordinator: Universität Duisburg-Essen. Prof. Dr. Brand). Eigenes Teilprojekt 270,721 €. |
2019 | 3,900,000 Euro. DFG-Graduiertenkolleg. "Folgen Sozialer Hilfen". Antragsteller. |
2018 | 2,140,000 Euro. BMBF-funding. Short title: "Individualisierbare Stressreduktion durch multimodale virtuelle Umgebungen" (coordinated by Hochschule Düsseldorf). |
2018 | 487,365 Euro. Principal Investigator of research group. Short title: "Breitenwirksame Substanzabhängigkeit in der digitalen Medizin". Collaborative grant with Prof. Dr. Niehaves & Prof. Dr. Brück. |
2017 | 177,950 Euro. DFG-funding (German Research Foundation). Short title: "Unmittelbares vs. verzögertes Extinktionstraining". Sole applicant. |
2016 | 179,200 Euro. DFG-funding (German Research Foundation). Short title: "Neuronale Korrelate appetitiver Extinktionsprozesse". Sole applicant. |
2014 | 97,400 Euro. DFG-funding (German Research Foundation). Short title: "Der Einfluss von Kontingenzbewusstheit auf appetitive Konditionierungsprozesse". |
2011 | 118,768 Euro. DFG-funding (German Research Foundation). Short title: "Gene x Brain Interaction: Neuronale Korrelate langfristiger Extinktionsprozesse in Abhängigkeit von Genetik". |
2010 | Post-doctoral Scholarship. 96,731 Euro. Short title: "Genetik und psychische Erkrankungen". |
COMPETITIVE RESEARCH GRANTS
2017 | 23,000 Euro. Uni Siegen. Research funding. Sole applicant. |
2014 | 9,900 Euro. JLU-Gießen (Forschungsbeihilfe, research funding). Short title: "Extinktion bei positiven Lernprozessen und die Verarbeitung von Belohnung". |
AWARDS
2018 | DAAD-funding. 2097 Euro |
2017 | Award for innovative teaching. Volume: 2000 Euro |
2014 | DAAD- funding. 2658 Euro |
2014 | Teaching for Master students. Volume: 812 Euro |
2012 | DAAD- funding. 2258 Euro |
2011 | Third-party funding prize. Justus-Liebig-University Gießen. 2000 Euro |
2011 | Teaching for Master students. Volume: 890 Euro |
2004 | Scholarship awarded by the Studienstiftung deutscher Psychologinnen und Psychologen |
EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
2014 | Certificate in Schema Therapy |
2013 | Certificate in Motivational Interviewing |
2012 | Certified Clinical Psychologist (CBT), State Examination |
2002 - 2006 | Studies in Psychology at Justus-Liebig-University Gießen |
2001 | University Entrance Qualification (Abitur). Goetheschule, Wetzlar |
AD-HOC REVIEWING ACTIVITIES (SELECTION)
Archives of General Psychiatry
Behavior Therapy
Brain Research
Biological Psychiatry
Biological Psychology
Cognition and Emotion
Cerebral Cortex
Frontiers on Behavioral Neuroscience
Human Brain Mapping
NeuroImage
PLOS One
Psychiatry Research
Psychological Science
Psychophysiological Research
Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Journal of Sexual Medicine
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
Contributions to Congresses (selection)
Klucken, T., (2015). The association between the COMT VAL158Met-polymorphism, extinction learning, and extinction recall. 41. Tagung der Psychologie und Gehirn.
Klucken, T., (2015). Appetitive Lernvorgänge bei Probanden mit exzessivem Pornographiekonsum. 33. Tagung der Klinischen Psychologie und Psychotherapie.
Klucken, T., (2014). Affektives Lernen im Kontext psychischer Erkrankungen. Symposiumsleiter/Chair. 56. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen.
Klucken, T., (2014). Differentielle Konditionierung mit erotischen Reizen bei sexsüchtigen Probanden. Affektives Lernen im Kontext psychischer Erkrankungen. Symposiumsleiter/Chair. 40. Tagung der Psychologie und Gehirn.
Klucken, T., (2013). The association between gen x environment interaction on neural processing. 25th annual meeting of the winter conference of neural plasticity.
Klucken, T., Alexander, N., Schweckendiek J., Merz, C., Vaitl, D., & Stark, R. (2012). The role of gene-environment interaction in neural correlates of human fear learning. 18th annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Peking.
Klucken, T., Alexander, N., Schweckendiek J., Merz, C., Vaitl, D., & Stark, R. (2011). Der Einfluss des 5-HTTLPR und Lebensereignissen auf neuronale Korrelate der Furchtkonditionierung. 37. Psychologie und Gehirn.
Klucken, T. (2011). Disgust conditioning. 4th European Fear Meeting.
Klucken, T. (2010). Fear conditioning. NeuroImaging and genetics. 3th European Fear Meeting.
Klucken, T., Vaitl, D., Stark, R. (2010). Ekelkonditionierung -Ergebnisse einer Bild-Bild-Konditionierung. 47. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie.
Klucken, T., Vaitl, D., & Stark, R. (2010). Ist Ekel konditionierbar? 36. Psychologie und Gehirn.
Klucken, T., Vaitl, D., & Stark, R. (2010). Disgust conditioning: Conditioned neural, electrodermal, and behavioral responses. 16th annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Barcelona.
Klucken, T., Schweckendiek, J., Vaitl, D., & Stark, R. (2009) Ugh! Disgust conditioning and the influence of individual differences. Psychophysiology 46, S102-102 59st Annual Meeting of the society for psychophysiological research.
Klucken, T., Tabbert, K., Schweckendiek, J., Vaitl, D., & Stark, R. (2009). Die Rolle des ventralen Striatums bei Bild-Bild-Konditionierung mit aversiven Reizen. 35. Arbeitstagung Psychophysiologie und Methodik
Klucken, T., Schweckendiek, J., Vaitl, D. & Stark, R. (2009). Classical conditioning of human sexual arousal. Neuroimage 49 S1, p. 183, 15th annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping.
Klucken, T., Stark, R., Schweckendiek, J., Tabbert, K., & Vaitl, D. (2008). Enhanced activity of the nucleus accumbens during an aversive conditioning paradigm. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 69(3), 211-212. 14th World congress of Psychophysiology.
Klucken, T., Stark, R., Tabbert, K., Hermann, A., & Vaitl, D. (2008). Functional magnetic resonance neuroimaging of fear conditioning by using aversive pictures as unconditioned stimuli. International Journal of Psychology, 43, 146. The International congress of Psychology.
Klucken, T., Stark, R., Tabbert, K. Schweckendiek, J., & Vaitl, D. (2008). Der Einfluss von Kontingenzbewusstheit auf konditionierte Reaktionen während eines differentiellen Bild-Bild Konditionierungsparadigma. 34. Psychologie und Gehirn.
Klucken, T., Stark, R., & Vaitl, D. (2008). The influence of contingency awareness on neural responses, valence ratings and skin conductance responses in a picture-picture conditioning paradigm. Neuroimage, 41, S79. 14th annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping
Klucken, T., Stark, R., Hermann, A., Tabbert, K. & Vaitl, D. (2008). Der Einsatz von aversiven Bildern als unkonditionierte Stimuli in der differentiellen Furchtkonditionierung: Eine fMRT-Untersuchung. 50. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen.
Klucken, T., Netter, P., Brouwer, A.M., Chatziastros, A. & Hennig, J. (2007). Inspection time as an indicator of repression-sensitization. In Hennig, J., Reuter, M., Montag, C. & Netter, P. (Eds.). Abstracts of the 13th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences.