Team

Academic Background

Since 04/2022: Professor for Clinical Psychology, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

2021-2023: SNF Assisatnt Professor, University of Zurich, Switzerland

2019 - 2021: SNF PRIMA-Fellow Head of Research, University of Zurich, Switzerland

2016 – 2023: Head of Research Group „Psychobiology of Pain“,Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany

2015-2016: Maternity Leave

2014-2015: Visiting Professorship, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany

2013 – 2015: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany

2010 – 2013: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Alann Edwars Centre for Research on Pain, McGill University, Montreal, Kanada

2009 – 2010: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Otto Selz Institute of Applied Psychology, University of Mannheim, Germany

Education

2018: Habilitation, “When pain meets reward: the effects of motivational conflicts on perception and behavior and their neurophysiological mechanisms” Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University 

2014: Master of Science (MSc) in Mathematics (Methods and Models)
part-time, University of Hagen (distance teaching university), Germany;
awarded “excellent”

2009: Doctor of Social Science, University of Mannheim, Germany; Thesis “Implicit operant learning of pain sensitization and habituation in healthy participants and fibromyalgia patients”; awarded “summa cum laude” (highest grade with honors)

2004: Diploma in Psychology, University of Mannheim, Germany; 
awarded “excellent” [sehr gut]

Research Interests

General

Experimental human pain research, brain imaging, neural networks, neurochemical processes, cognitive and clinical neurosciences

Specific research topics

• Markers of the aversiveness of pain as the driving factor in chronic pain, underlying brain networks and neurochemical mechanisms, with a focus on dopaminergic processes
• Psychobiology of the interaction of pain and reward; effects of the pain-reward interaction on perception, decision-making, and learning; the role of dopamine and endogenous opioids, functional neural correlates and brain circuitries
• Assessment of perception on subjective and objective levels,
• Quality of life, neuropsychological symptoms, and pain in patients with mitochondrial diseases as rare diseases

List of publications  https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=j0gFEZ0AAAAJ&hl=en

Grants ans Stipends

• Gesamtfördersumme: 3.542.899 €
• Federal Ministry of Education and Research – BMBF (2024–2025): €131,289 – Co-PI, project kaarlo: Individualized, interactive behavioral therapy for somatoform disorders based on digital phenotyping (START-INTERACTIVE)
• EFRE / State North Rhine-Westphalia (2024–2025): €299,986 – PI, project somate: Digital phenotyping (START-UP TRANSFER.NRW, EFRE/JFT program)
• German Research Foundation – DFG (2023–2026): €326,263 – Co-PI, project “Pain processing in Parkinson’s disease: motivational-emotional vs. sensory-discriminative components” (FL 760/6-1)
• Olga Mayenfisch Foundation (2021–2022): €45,862 – PI, project “Emotional-motivational processing in patients with chronic pain: dopamine signaling, brain circuits, and pain perception”
• Swiss National Science Foundation – SNSF PRIMA Grant (2019–2024): €1,352,952 – PI, project “Feeling Pain and Being in Pain: Mechanisms of emotional-motivational pain processing in health and disease”
• German Research Foundation – DFG (2019–2021): €139,200 – PI, project “Psychobiological mechanisms of impaired reward processing in chronic pain” (BE 4309/7-1)
• German Research Foundation – DFG Research Training Group 2350 (2018–2021): €280,463 – Co-PI, project “The relationship of adverse childhood experiences and violent video gaming: effects on pain perception, pain-related empathy, and aggression”
• German Society for Muscle Diseases – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Muskelkranke e.V. (2017–2018): €14,990 – Co-PI, extension of project “Quality of life, pain, and neuropsychological symptoms in patients with mitochondriopathies”
• European Pain Federation – Grünenthal Research Grant (2017–2019): €30,000 – PI, project “Altered cognitive-emotional networks in chronic pain: the modulatory role of dopamine”
• Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (2017–2019): €200,000 – Co-PI, interdisciplinary project “Understanding and communicating dynamic changes in perception induced by the interaction of thermal comfort and pain”
• DFG Collaborative Research Centre 1158 – Gender Equality Fund (2015): €4,500 – Funding to support research progress during maternity leave
• German Society for Muscle Diseases – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Muskelkranke e.V. (2015–2017): €20,000 – Co-PI, project “Quality of life, pain, and neuropsychological symptoms in patients with mitochondriopathies”
• Olympia Morata Program, Heidelberg University (2015–2017): €76,500 – Funding for habilitation project (50% position plus travel funds)
• German Research Foundation – DFG (2015–2017): €4,670 – PI, grant to support the initiation of international collaboration (BE 4309/5-1)
• Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (2015–2017): €282,000 – Co-PI, Junior Academy project “Thermal comfort and pain: understanding human adaptation to interferences”
• Baden-Württemberg Foundation (2014–2016): €9,520 – Co-PI, cooperation program for leading early career researchers, project “Carrot and stick: interaction of global comfort and local pain perception”
• German Pain Society – Deutsche Schmerzgesellschaft (2014): €7,000 – PI, Award for Young Scientists in Pain Research, project “Too much pain or not enough reward?”
• Baden-Württemberg Foundation (2014–2017): €80,000 – PI, postdoctoral fellowship, project “The pleasure of pain relief: neurophysiological mechanisms of pain relief as reward”
• International Association for the Study of Pain – IASP (2013–2015): €15,353 – PI, Early Career Research Grant, project “Pain and reward: decision-making under conflicting motivations”
• German Research Foundation – DFG (2013): €8,808 – PI, return grant for reintegration into the German research system (BE 4309/4-1)
• International Association for the Study of Pain – IASP (2012–2014): €11,330 – Co-PI, collaborative research grant on dopamine, reward, and pain sensitivity
• German Research Foundation – DFG (2012): €15,804 – PI, research fellowship on dopaminergic neurotransmission and pain–reward interaction (BE 4309/3-1)
• International Association for the Study of Pain – IASP (2010–2011): €38,000 – International Trainee Fellowship, funded by the Scan|Design Foundation

Collaborations

• Prof. Dr. Patrick Finan, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, US
• Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Dr. h.c. Herta Flor, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany
• Prof. Dr. Esther Florin, Institute of Clinical Neuroscience and Medical Psychology, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
• Dipl.-Psych. Carsten Gamroth, patient representative, International Mito Patients, Lübeck, Germany
• Dr. Wiebke Gandhi, Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics, University of Reading, UK
• Ass. Prof. Dr. Paul Geha, Pain and Perceptions Lab, University of Rochester, US
• Prof. Dr. Marcel Schweiker, Healthy Living Spaces, Institute for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, University hospital RWTH Aachen, Germany
• Prof. Dr. Petra Schweinhardt, Department of Chiropractic Medicine, Balgrist University Clinic, University of Zurich, Switzerland
• Dr. Andrew Segerdahl, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, UK
• Prof. Dr. Ben Seymour, Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
• Prof. Dr. Ashley Smith, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Canada

Editor Scientific Journal

• Associate Editor: PAIN, Neuroscience Letters
• Editorial Board Member, Reviwe Editor: Frontiers Pain Research, Section: Non-Pharmacological Treatment of Pain
• Guest Editor, Research Topic Neuroimaging for the measurement and management of pain, Frontiers in Neurology
• Guest Editor, Research Topic Pain, Hedonics and Motivation, Frontiers in Pain Research
• Lead Guest Editor, Special Issue Shared Mechanisms of Chronic Pain and Emotional-Motivational Problems: From Basic Science to the Clinics, Pain Research and Management

Committees

• 12/2024–04/2025: Scientific Programme Committee, 14th Congress of the European Pain Federation (EFIC)
• 01/2023–08/2024: Task Force, Definition “Integrative Pain Care”, International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP)
• 09/2022–09/2023: Task Force, IASP 2023 Global Year on Integrative Pain Care, International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP)
• since 11/2021: Research Committee, European Pain Federation (EFIC) – Steering Committee, Research Strategy
• since 11/2018: Research Committee, European Pain Federation (EFIC) – Working Group on Translational Research
• since 02/2021: Fellowships, Grants, and Awards Working Group, International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP)

Ad Hoc Referee for Grant Agencies

ERC Starting Grant, European Commission, framework Horizon 2020; EIT Health WILD CARD program, framework Horizon Europe, European Union;  Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships, European Commission; European Commission, framework Horizon 2020, Future and Emerging, Technologies Open, Research and Innovation Actions (FET Open, RIA); German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG); FWO (Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek), Research Foundation  – Flanders (Belgium); Medical Research Council (MRC), UK; National Science Center, Poland; University Hospital Eppendorf (UKE)

Ad Hoc Referee forScientific Journals

Annals of Clinical Case Reports; APPETITE; Behavioural Brain Research; BMC Neuroscience; Brain Topography; Clinical Medicine Insights; Clincial Psychological Science; Cognition & Emotion; Der Schmerz; eLife; eNeuro; European Journal of Neuroscience; European Journal of Pain; Frontiers Neurology; Frontiers in Human Neuroscience; Frontiers in Psychology; Human Brain Mapping; International Journal of Psychology; JAMA Psychiatry; Journal of Clinical Medicine; Journal of Neuroscience (Review Collaborator); Journal of Pain; Journal of Postdoctoral Research; Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research; Neuroimage; Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry; Neuroscience Letters; Pain; Pain Medicine; Pain Research and Treatment; Pain Research and Management; PeerJ; PLoS ONE; Physioscience; PNAS; Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry; Psychopharmacology; Scandinavian Journal of Psychology; Scientific Reports; Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience; World Journal of Gastroenterology

Awards and Honors

Awards 

• 05/2017: European Pain Federation – Grünenthal Research Grant (EGG 2016), project “Altered cognitive-emotional networks in chronic pain: the modulatory role of dopamine”
• 10/2014: German Pain Society – Award for Young Scientists in Pain Research (NachwuchsFörderPreis Schmerz), in cooperation with Janssen-Cilag GmbH
• 05/2012: Canadian Pain Society – Poster Award “Best Clinical Science Poster”, 2012 Annual Conference
• 10/2011: German Pain Society – Award for Pain Research, 2nd place in clinical research
• 06/2010: German Association for Psychophysiology and its Application – Young Scientist Award for Best PhD Supervisor in Biopsychology
• 06/2010: University of Mannheim – Otto Selz Award for the Best Dissertation in Psychology, School of Social Sciences

Travel stipends

• 10/2014: International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) – Financial Aid, travel stipend for the 15th World Congress on Pain, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• 11/2013: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) – Travel Grant, Neuroscience 2013 Conference, San Diego, CA, USA
• 08/2012: Canadian Pain Society / IASP – Milan Trainee Travel Grant
• 05/2012: Canadian Pain Society – Trainee Travel Grant 2012
• 05/2012: Quebec Pain Research Network – Student Travel Award (Spring 2012)

Knowledge Transfer

• Interview for TV programm „Brauchen wir Schmerz? 42 – Die Antwort auf fast alles“, ARTE, 02. September 2024 https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/115510-008-A/42-the-answer-to-almost-everything/
• Interview for Report in Regional Daily Newspaper Rheinische Post
• Interview for podcast “Zuckerschoten” (2023), Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf,
  https://zuckerschoten-hhu-podcast.podigee.io/1-neue-episode
• Interview for report “Pleasant Pain” in the popular scientific journal Gehirn & Geist, issue 12/2020,
  https://www.spektrum.de/magazin/warum-schmerz-sich-manchmal-gut-anfuehlt/1780380
• Roundtable discussion (2019): “Successful Career Stories: Roundtable discussions with PRIMA and Ambizione grantees”, sharing experiences with PRIMA and Ambizione grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation, October 28, 2019
• Interview for online article “Volkskrankheit Schmerz – und was wir dagegen tun können” (2019), published on Spektrum.de,
  https://www.spektrum.de/wissen/volkskrankheit-schmerz-und-was-wir-dagegen-tun-koennen/1621522
• Lecture open to the public (2018): “Body and Mind: The Role of the Psyche in Chronic Pain”, Evening Academy (community education centre), Mannheim, Germany, September 26, 2018
• In-house training “Pain” (2018): Training for nursing staff on the basics of pain, Quality Circle Meeting, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany, March 6, 2018
• Talk at self-help group fibromyalgia (2017): “New ways in the therapy of fibromyalgia: current psychobiological research and future perspectives”, Waiblingen, Germany, September 23, 2017
• Talk for occupational and academic studies orientation for pupils (2017): “Pain – mechanisms and perception”, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany, April 4, 2017
• Local newspaper report (2016), Mannheimer Morgen: Topic: mechanisms of reward in pain
• Talk at self-help group mitochondrial diseases (2015): “Quality of life, pain, and neuropsychological symptoms in patients with muscle diseases”, meeting of the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan self-help group of the German Society for Muscle Patients, Mannheim, Germany, June 27, 2015
• Lay summary published on Neuronline (2016), Society for Neuroscience’s online forum for learning and discussion, of Becker et al. (2015), eNeuro
• Phone-in session and expert interview in local newspaper Mannheimer Morgen (2015), recruited as an expert on the psychology of pain
• “Hot Topic” media summary (2012): Lay summary of conference presentation for distribution to the media and on site, Neuroscience 2012 Conference
• “Night of Science” (2007), Metropolitan Region Rhine-Neckar, Germany: hands-on presentation of phenomena in pain and body perception

Academic Background

• Since 04/2023: Deputy Head - Clinical Psychology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
• Since 2023: Visiting Scientist - Department of Neuropsychology and Psychological Resilience Research, Research Group Learning and Brain Plasticity in Mental Disorders, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Germany
• 2021 - 2023: PostDoc - Integrative Spinal Research Group, Department of Chiropractic Medicine, Balgrist University Hospital, University of Zürich, Switzerland
• 2019 - 2022: PostDoc - Institute of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Germany
• 2015 - 2016: Visiting Scientist - Clinical Research and Imaging Centre (CRICBristol), University of Bristol, United Kingdom

Education

• 2019: Doctor (PhD) in human sciences (Dr. sc. hum.), Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University; Dissertation: „Cognitive and Affective Mechanisms of Pain Modulation and their Neuronal and Neurochemical Correlates“
• 2011: Diploma in Psychology (Mag. rer. nat.), University of Innsbruck

Research Interests 

General experimental human pain research, individualized treatment for patients with chronic pain, endogenous pain modulation, brain imaging, cognitive and clinical neurosciences

Specific research topics

• Psychobiological mechanisms underlying the transition from acute to chronic pain
• Predictors of individual treatment success in patients with primary chronic pain
• Learning mechanisms in primary chronic pain
• Quality of life, neuropsychological symptoms, and pain in patients with mitochondrial diseases

Selected Publications

1. Scarlatti, F, Dormegny-Jeanjean, L, Schefzik, R, Foucher, JR, Banaschewski, T, Bokde, ALW, Brühl, R, Desrivières, S, Garavan, H, Gowland, P, Grigis, A, Heinz, A, Martinot, J-L, Paillère Martinot, M-L, Artiges, E, Papadopoulos Orfanos, D, Poustka, L, Smolka, MN, Hohmann, S, Vaidya, N, Walter, H, Whelan, R, Schumann, G, Nees, F, Schwarz, E, Löffler, M*, Flor, H*, IMAGEN Consortium (in press). “Neural and psychosocial signatures of the comorbidity between pain and affective symptoms.” PAIN Reports 11, no. 1: e1353. https://doi.org/10.1097/PR9.0000000000001353 *contributed equally
2. Löffler, A., Beier, F., Bekrater-Bodmann, R., Hausner, L., Desch, S., Silvoni, S., Kleinböhl, D., Löffler, M., Nees, F., Frölich, L., & Flor, H. (2024). Reduced tactile sensitivity is associated with mild cognitive impairment. EBioMedicine, 99, 104896. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2023.104896
3. Löffler, M., Schneider, P., Schuh-Hofer, S., Kamping, S., Usai, K., Treede, R. D., Nees, F., & Flor, H. (2023). Stress-induced hyperalgesia instead of analgesia in patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain. Neurobiol Pain, 13, 100110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ynpai.2022.100110
4. Löffler, M., Levine, S. M., Usai, K., Desch, S., Kandic, M., Nees, F., & Flor, H. (2022). Corticostriatal circuits in the transition to chronic back pain: The predictive role of reward learning. Cell Rep Med, 3(7), 100677. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrm.2022.100677
5. Löffler, M., Gamroth, C., Becker, S., & Flor, H. (2020). Chronic pain as a neglected core symptom in mitochondrial diseases. Neurology, 94(8), 357-359. https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000009011

For a full list see of publications see: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=de&user=fI-4kPkAAAAJ

Research Funding, Awards & Honors

• DAAD (2024): 1.140 € – Travel grant
• BMBF (2020–2023): 465.051€ – „PerPain: Improving outcomes in chronic musculoskeletal pain through a personalized medicine approach using cross-illness multilevel assessments and mechanism-based interventions” Project #2, Flor/Löffler: “Pain extinction and retraining-tailored approach for chronic musculoskeletal pain and analysis of dysfunctional behavior and brain networks“
• DGSS (2023): 7.000 € – Förderpreis für Schmerzforschung [Award for Pain Research] (1^st place) in the category „clinical research“ for the publication “Corticostriatal circuits in the transition to chronic back pain: The predictive role of reward learning”

Collaborations

• Prof. Dr. Tilman Supprian, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, LVR-Clinic Düsseldorf, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
• Prof. Dr. Jonas Tesarz, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
• Prof. Dr. Dorit Pud, The human experimental pain research laboratory, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, University of Haifa, Israel
• Prof. Dr. Herta Flor, Department of Neuropsychology and Psychological Resilience Research, Research Group Learning and Brain Plasticity in Mental Disorders, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Germany
• Dipl.-Psych. Carsten Gamroth, Patient representative, International Mito Patients, Lübeck

Review Activities

Cell Reports Medicine, Biological Psychiatry, Pain, NeuroImage, BMC Psychology, Human Brain Mapping, The Journal of Pain, Journal of Neural Transmission, European Journal of Pain, Frontiers in Pain Research

Education

• 2010: Dr. rer. nat. (PhD), summa cum laude, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
• 2005: Diploma in Psychology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Academic Positions

• since 2025: Research Associate, Head of Laboratory
  Department of Clinical Psychology – Becker Pain Lab, Institute of Experimental Psychology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
• 2017–2025: Research Associate, Head of Laboratory
  Department of Biological Psychology and Social Psychology, Institute of Experimental Psychology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
• 2011–2017: Postdoctoral Researcher
  Department of Biological Psychology and Social Psychology, Institute of Experimental Psychology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
• 2010: Visiting Researcher
  Interdisciplinary Center for Smell and Taste (Director: Prof. Dr. Thomas Hummel),
  Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden
• 2006–2010: Doctoral Researcher
  Department of Biological Psychology and Social Psychology, Institute of Experimental Psychology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Academic Service

• since 2023: Member of the Examination Boards, BSc and MSc Psychology
• 2017–present:
  • Minor Subject Coordinator, Examination Board BSc Psychology
  • Representative of the Examination Board BSc Psychology for the Studium Universale
• 2011–2016: Member of the Executive Board, Academic Unit of Psychology
• 2012: Member of the Re-Accreditation Committee (BSc and MSc Psychology programs)
• Habilitation Committees:
  • 2021: PD Dr. Studer
  • 2020: PD Dr. Gieselmann
  • 2014: PD Dr. Bell
  • 2013: PD Dr. Lange
• Appointment Committees:
  • 2020–2021: Professorship in Clinical Psychology
  • 2010: Professorship in Comparative Psychology
• 2006–2011: Member of Examination Boards
  • Diploma in Psychology
  • BSc Psychology
  • MSc Psychology
• 2006–2025: Academic Advisor for Psychology Students

Research Interests

General

·  Human social chemosignaling
– The role of body odors and other chemosensory signals in social–emotional processes.

·  Neurocognitive processing of social signals
– Central neural mechanisms underlying empathy, aggression, fear, and social perception.

·  Sexuality and sexual orientation in the context of socio-emotional processes
– Differences between sexual orientations in perception, behavior, and neural processing.

·  Sociobiological and evolutionary psychological aspects of human behavior
– Adaptive functions of cooperation, aggression, and homosexuality.

· Psychophysiology of social interaction
– auf EEG-/fMRT und Peripherphysiologie basierende Untersuchung von Empathie, Spiegelneuronensystem, Affektverarbeitung

Specific

1. Chemosensory signals
   – Processing, effects, and behavioral modulation induced by signals related to anxiety, aggression, happiness, or satiety.
2. Influence of sex hormones, biological sex, and pregnancy
   – Hormonal modulation of chemosensory perception and emotional responses.
3. Sexual orientation and social/emotional behavior
   – Differences in empathy, aggression, cooperation, and (body) odor perception between homosexual and heterosexual individuals.
4. Empathy and the mirror neuron system (EEG, mu suppression)
   – Associations between empathy, somatosensory mu activity, body odor processing, and sexual orientation.
5. Social context and chemosensory modulation of cognitive processes
   – Effects of (body) odors on attention, emotion recognition, mood, defensive behavior, and social cognition.

Selected Publications

Loos, HM, Schaal, B, Pause, BM, Smeets, MAM., Ferdenzi, C, Roberts, SC, de Groot, J, Lübke, KT, Croy, I, Freiherr, J, Bensafi, M, Hummel, T, & Havlíček, J (2025). Past, present, and future of human chemical communication research. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 20(1), 20-44. doi.org/10.1177/17456916231188147 

Lübke, KT, Storch, D, & Pause, BM (2024). Sexual orientation affects neural responses to subtle social aggression signals. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 53(1), 153-175. doi.org/10.1007/s10508-023-02661-z 

Lübke, KT, Sachse, C., Hoenen, M, & Pause, BM (2020). Mu-suppression as an indicator of empathic processes in lesbian, gay, and heterosexual adults. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 49(2), 635-644. doi.org/10.1007/s10508-019-01491-2 

Pause, BM, Storch, D., & Lübke, KT (2020). Chemosensory communication of aggression: Women's fine-tuned neural processing of male aggression signals. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 375(1800), 20190270. doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0270 

Lübke, KT, Busch, A, Hoenen, M, Schaal, B, & Pause, BM (2017). Chemosensory anxiety signals prime defensive behavior in prepubertal girls. Physiology and Behavior, 173, 30-33. doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2017.01.035 

Lübke, KT, Busch, A, Hoenen, M, Schaal, B, & Pause, BM (2017). Pregnancy reduces the perception of anxiety. Scientific Reports, 7(1), 9213. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-07985-0 

Lübke, KT, & Pause, BM (2015). Always follow your nose: The functional significance of social chemosignals in human reproduction and survival. Hormones and Behavior, 68, 134-144. doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2014.10.001 

Lübke, KT, Croy, I, Hoenen, M, Gerber, J, Pause, BM, & Hummel, T (2014). Does human body odor represent a significant and rewarding social signal to individuals high in social openness? PLoS ONE, 9(4), e94314. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0094314 

Lübke, KT, Hoenen, M, & Pause, BM (2012). Differential processing of social chemosignals obtained from potential partners in regards to gender and sexual orientation. Behavioural Brain Research, 228, 375-387. doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2011.12.018 

Pause, BM, Lübke, K, Laudien, JH, & Ferstl, R (2010). Intensified neuronal investment in the processing of chemosensory anxiety signals in non-socially anxious and socially anxious individuals. PLoS ONE, 5(4), e10342. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010342 

For a full list see of publications see https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=A4UqxYUAAAAJ&hl=de&oi=ao

Third-Party Funding and Grants

• 2014–2016: Research Grant, German Research Foundation (DFG)
  Project: “Sexual Orientation as a Modulator of Aggression, Cooperation, and Empathy”
  (joint application with Prof. Dr. B. M. Pause; total funding: €122,222)
• 2010: Research Stay Grant
  Interdisciplinary Center for Smell and Taste, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden
  (Women’s Research Support Program, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
• 2008: Full Scholarship, Minerva Foundation
  Participation in the 28th Blankenese Conference on Sensory Signaling and Information Processing

International Peer Review Activities

Reviewer for, among others, the following academic journals:

Archives of Sexual Behavior · Behavior Research Methods · Brain Sciences · Chemical Senses ·
Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance · Frontiers in Psychology ·
International Journal of Medical Science · i-Perception · Journal of Homosexuality (ad hoc) ·
NeuroImage · Perspectives of Psychological Science · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B ·
Physiology & Behavior · PLOS One · Polish Psychological Bulletin · Proceedings of the Royal Society B ·
Psychology of Sport & Exercise · Psychoneuroendocrinology · Scientific Reports

Memberships in Professional Societies

• German Society for Psychophysiology and its Applications (DGPA)
• German Psychological Society (DGPs)
  – Sections: General Psychology; Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology
• European Chemoreception Research Organization (ECRO)
• Association for Chemoreception Sciences (AChemS)

Organisation of Scientific Symposia

• 2015: “Women, Men, Emotions: The Influence of Sex and Sex Hormones on Emotional Processes”
  41st Conference Psychologie und Gehirn, Frankfurt (with Prof. C. Merz)
• 2013: “Olfaction in Everyday Life: Chemosensory Communication, Social Learning, and Olfactory Disorders”
  55th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP), Vienna (with Prof. C. Dobel)
• 2011: “The Influence of Gender and Sexual Orientation on Human Olfaction”
  21st ECRO Congress, Manchester (with Dr. M. Sergeant), Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee

Invited Talks (Selected)

• 2020: “Always Follow Your Nose! How Human Chemosignals Influence Reproduction”
  Joint Symposium of DGRM + AGRBM, Düsseldorf
• 2019: “Always Follow Your Nose! Communication via Body Odors in Humans”
  Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
• 2018: Contributions on chemosensory aggression and empathy
  NeuroRad, Frankfurt; Human Chemosensation Meeting, Dresden
• 2010–2017: Invited lectures at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Ruhr University Bochum, and University Hospital Dresden

Research Collaborations

• Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf - Prof. Dr. Bettina Pause
• University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden – Prof. Dr. Thomas Hummel
• University of Osnabrück – Prof. Dr. Ursula Stockhorst
• Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l’Alimentation (CNRS / University of Burgundy, Dijon) – Prof. Dr. Benoist Schaal

Professional Training in Teaching and Research

• 2013: Professional Teaching Competence for Higher Education (Certificate), Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
• 2011: Functional MRI in Psychological Research, BION, Giessen
• 2009: Human Olfaction Summer School, Dresden
• 2009: Event-Related Potentials and Spontaneous EEG, Leipzig

Teaching

Supervision of Theses
Supervision of doctoral dissertations, master’s theses, bachelor’s theses, and diploma theses.

Lectures

• Social Psychology, BSc Psychology (substitute lecturer)

Seminars and Practical Courses

• Clinical Psychology (BSc & MSc)
• Physiological Psychology
• Developmental Psychology
• Experimental laboratory courses (BSc & Diploma)

Project Modules and Research Internships

• Training in scientific research methods and academic writing
• Participation in ongoing research projects
• Supervision of professional internships (since 2006)

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