Career
He is professor of Clinical Psychology at Faculty of Psychology and Sports Science, Bielefeld University. Frank Neuner heads the Chair of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, including the affiliated treatment facilities and the Institute for Postgraduate Therapy Training. The research includes fundamental neuroscientific studies on the effects of violence on the brain and extends to epidemiological studies and experimental therapy studies with traumatized survivors of war, torture, and natural disasters in current and former war zones, e.g., in Uganda, Rwanda, and Sri Lanka.
In 2004 he gains the Award of the Foundation “Science and Society”, Konstanz and the Award for promising young talents of the Section Clinical Psychology of the German Psychological Society.
V. (chairman from 2001 to Consequences of traumatic stress during development: Epidemiology and treatment of former child soldiers in Uganda (German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), 2007-ongoing) Multicenter NETwork (European Union) Improvement of healthcare for refugees (vivo Italy, 2007–2009) Psychological disorders and treatment in orphans in Ethiopia and Rwanda (MWK Baden-Württemberg, 2006–2008) Change of neural network indicators through narrative treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in torture victims (German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), 2006–2009) Violence, its impact and coping strategies (VolkswagenFoundation, Mweya, Uganda, 2004) P. J. F. T. L.
