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The CovSocial Team<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/section>\n
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Scientific Head<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n
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Prof. Dr. Tania Singer<\/h3>
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Role:<\/strong> Scientific Head CovSocial (Phase 1 and Phase 2) and principal applicant BUA Grant in 2020 (Phase 1)<\/p>\n

Affiliation<\/strong>: Scientific Head, Research Group Social Neuroscience, Max Planck Society, Berlin<\/p>\n

Summary<\/strong>: Tania\u2019s research focuses on human social behavior, social cohesion and cooperation, and social emotions such as empathy and compassion. She is also interested in the plasticity of the social brain and is the leader of the ReSource project, a large-scale long-term study on the effects of mental training on brain plasticity, mental health, stress reduction and increase in resilience, prosocial behavior and cooperation.<\/p>\n

Links<\/strong>: www.taniasinger.de<\/a>, www.social.mpg.de<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n

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Scientific cooperation partners<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n
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Prof. Dr. Mazda Adli<\/h3>
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Role<\/strong>: Principal applicant BUA Grant in 2020 (Phase 1)<\/p>\n

Affiliation<\/strong>: Chief Doctor, Fliedner Clinic Berlin, Head of Research Department on Affective Disorders, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (CCM), Charit\u00e9 \u2013 Universit\u00e4tsmedizin Berlin.<\/p>\n

Summary<\/strong>: Mazda’s research interests include the study of factors of city life on stress sensitivity and mental health, the investigation of strategies to overcome therapy-resistant depression, and the investigation of genetic factors influencing the therapeutic response to depression.<\/p>\n

Links<\/strong>: https:\/\/psychiatrie-psychotherapie.charite.de<\/a>, www.mazda-adli.de<\/a>, www.fliednerklinikberlin.de<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n

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Prof. Dr. Manuel Voelkle<\/h3>
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Role: <\/strong>Methods and statistical modeling (Phase 1 and Phase 2)<\/p>\n

Affiliation<\/strong>: Professor for Psychological Research Methods at the Institute for Psychology at Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin<\/p>\n

Summary<\/strong>: Manuel\u2019s research interests focus on the design and analysis of multivariate empirical studies with emphasis on longitudinal research. A large part of his methodological work deals with time-continuous dynamic models.<\/p>\n

Links<\/strong>: www.psychologie.hu-berlin.de\/de\/mitarbeiter\/1688290<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n

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Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Binder<\/h3>
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Role:<\/strong> Genetic and epigenetic markers (Phase 1 and Phase 2)<\/p>\n

Affiliation:<\/b> Executive Director, Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, Department for Translational Research in Psychiatry, Munich<\/p>\n

Summary: <\/b>Elisabeth’s research focuses on stress, trauma, anxiety disorders, depression, posttraumatic stress disorders, genetics and epigenetics as well as gene-environment interactions.<\/p>\n

Links<\/strong>: www.psych.mpg.de\/1448291\/binder<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n

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Prof. Dr. Christine Heim<\/h3>
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Role: <\/strong>Early life adversity (Phase 1) and stress markers (Phase 2)<\/p>\n

Affiliation<\/strong>: Director of the Institute for medical Psychology, Charit\u00e9 \u2013 Universit\u00e4tsmedizin Berlin.<\/p>\n

Summary<\/strong>: Christine’s research focuses on neurobiological consequences of early traumatic life experiences, the psychobiology of stress, depression and anxiety disorders, the interaction of stress and dispositions, gene-environment interactions, risk versus resilience as well as translational work to interventions.<\/p>\n

Links<\/strong>: medpsych.charite.de\/ueber_das_institut\/team\/institutsleitung\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n

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Prof. Dr. Sonja Entringer<\/h3>
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Role:\u00a0<\/strong>Early life Adversity and Stress (Phase1)<\/p>\n

Affiliation<\/strong>: Professor at the Institute for Medical Psychology at Charit\u00e9 \u2013 Universit\u00e4tsmedizin Berlin<\/p>\n

Summary<\/strong>: Sonja’s research focuses on stress and cellular aging (telomere biology, epigenetics), fetal programming of disease and health, psychobiology of pregnancy, migration and health as well as Ecological-Momentary-Assessment (EMA) methods of stress diagnostics.<\/p>\n

Links<\/strong>: medpsych.charite.de\/metas\/person\/person\/address_detail\/entringer\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n

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Scientists<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n
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Dr. Sarita Silveira<\/h3>
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Role<\/strong>: Postdoc CovSocial (Phase 1 and Phase 2)<\/p>\n

Affiliation<\/strong>: Research associate in the Research Group Social Neuroscience, Max Planck Society<\/p>\n

Summary:<\/strong> Sarita’s research interests include the effects of life experiences on neuro-cognitive functions and mental health, as well as digital mobile technologies as experimental diagnostics and therapeutics.<\/p>\n

Links<\/strong>: www.social.mpg.de<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n

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Dr. Malvika Godara <\/h3>
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Role<\/strong>: Postdoc CovSocial (Phase 1 and Phase 2)<\/p>\n

Affiliation<\/strong>: Research associate in the Research Group Social Neuroscience, Max Planck Society<\/p>\n

Summary:<\/strong> Malvika’s research interests include looking at risk and resilience factors involved in the onset and maintenance of mood-, stress- and anxiety-based disorders, and developing novel therapeutic interventions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Links<\/strong>: www.social.mpg.de<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n

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Hannah Matth\u00e4us<\/h3>
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Role: <\/strong>PhD student<\/p>\n

Affiliation<\/strong>: Research associate and doctoral student at Research Group Social Neuroscience, Max Planck Society<\/p>\n

Summary:<\/strong> In the context of her PhD, she is researching the impact of psychological interventions on stress and loneliness using behavioral and biopsychosocial methods. Additionally, she is interested in how these effects can be predicted by stressor-related changes in vulnerability, resilience and social cohesion.<\/p>\n

Links<\/strong>: www.social.mpg.de<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n

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Support<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n
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Function<\/strong>: Student Assistant<\/p>\n

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Support in all domains of the CovSocial project (see www.covsocial.de)<\/div>\n
Nina Grimme is a MSc Student (Biology) at Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin. Her main task focuses on helping with data collection and data cleaning in R.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n
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Guests<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n
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Johannes Mohn<\/h3>
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PhD candidate, Max Planck School of Cognition<\/div>\n
Johannes Mohn is currently conducting his doctoral work at Charit\u00e9 \u2013 Universit\u00e4tsmedizin Berlin. His research focuses on neurocognitive development, with a particular interest in the effects of stress and stress-related neuropsychopathologies. In the CovSocial Project, he studies the effects of early life adversity on mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n
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Paul Petzold<\/h3>
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MSc Student, Psychology, University of Kassel<\/p>\n

Paul earned a BSc in psychology from Chemnitz University of Technology and is currently pursuing a MSc in psychology at the University of Kassel. His main task focuses on the analysis of pre-post state changes of daily and weekly variables over the course of the interventions.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Jessie Rademacher<\/h3>
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MSc Student, Neuroscience, Freie Universitaet Berlin<\/div>\n
Jessie’s research focuses on individual differences in crisis-related vulnerability trajectories and their risk and protective factors. She is particularly interested in the application of advanced statistical analysis of longitudinal data.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n
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Teachers of the Intervention Study (Phase 2)<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n
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C\u00e4cilia Kr\u00e4mer<\/h3>
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Role<\/strong>: Meditation trainer (CovSocial Phase 2)<\/p>\n

Affiliation<\/strong>: MBSR and MSC mindfulness trainer and coach<\/p>\n

Summary: <\/strong>C\u00e4cilia is an accredited teacher for mindfulness (MBSR) and mindful self-compassion (MSC-Certified Teacher), founding member of the German MSC-teacher network (head of intervention department), has practiced Yoga on a daily basis since she was 17 years old, and loves the Vipassana\/MBSR and Metta\/MSC meditation practice.<\/p>\n

Links: <\/strong>www.achtsamkeitskultur.de<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n

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Oliver Kirchhof<\/h3>
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Role<\/strong>: Meditation trainer (CovSocial Phase 2)<\/p>\n

Affiliation<\/strong>: MBSR mindfulness trainer, management consultant, and systemic coach<\/p>\n

Summary: <\/strong>In his work, he focusses on creating living and working environments in which joy, efficacy, and connectedness are not contradicting one another, but go hand in hand. In order to practice and strengthen the necessary (self-)leadership, communication, and conflict skills Oliver relies on the principles and methods of mindfulness and agility.<\/p>\n

Links<\/strong>: www.oliverkirchhof.de<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n

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Katharina Schacht<\/h3>
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Role<\/strong>: Meditation trainer (CovSocial Phase 2)<\/p>\n

Affiliation<\/strong>: Trainer and coach for mindfulness and compassion (MBSR\/MBCT\/MBCL teacher)<\/p>\n

Summary<\/strong>: As a trainer and coach, she supports people in sustainably strengthening their mental health and well-being. She teaches mindfulness according to the scientifically approved MBSR method (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction) by Prof. Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn and the compassion practice MBCL (Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living) following Dr. Erik van der Brink and Fritz Koster. Her mode of operation includes practical exercises in combination with impulse-speeches and reflection units, thus enabling a holistic understanding of the contents and a lasting learning experience.<\/p>\n

Links<\/strong>:<\/strong> www.katharinaschacht.de<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>

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Martin B\u00fcchele<\/h3>
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Role<\/strong>: Meditation trainer (CovSocial Phase 2)<\/p>\n

Affiliation<\/strong>: MBSR mindfulness trainer and coach<\/p>\n

Summary: <\/strong>Martin is an accredited meditation and MBSR teacher (stress management through mindfulness), mindfulness trainer and coach, such as an organizational consultant. He supports people in coping with stress more easily, being less distracted, increasing their well-being, and communicating more attentively, by using mental practices. As a senior trainer and consultant of Potential Project, the global provider of mindfulness trainings for organisations, he can look back to many years of experience in implementing mental training programs within both big and small companies, such as international governmental organizations.<\/p>\n

Links:<\/strong> www.martinbuechele.eu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n

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