Background
Ehlers, Anke was born on January 11, 1957 in Kiel, Germany. Daughter of Hans Werner and Hella (Braun) Ehlers.
Ehlers, Anke was born on January 11, 1957 in Kiel, Germany. Daughter of Hans Werner and Hella (Braun) Ehlers.
Diploma in Psychology, University Tübingen, Germany, 1983. Doctor Rer. Society, University Tübingen, Germany, 1985. Doctor Rer. National Habilitation, University Marburg, Germany, 1990.
She is an expert in post traumatic stress disorder. Her research has shown that it is a common problem among emergency medical workers, and that a commonly used therapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, psychological debriefing, has little provable therapeutic value. She finished her Doctor of Philosophy from the same institution in 1985, and earned a habilitation from the University of Marburg in 1990.
While finishing her Doctor of Philosophy, Ehlers worked at Stanford University from 1984 to 1985 as assistant director of the Laboratory for Clinical Psychopharmacology and Psychophysiology.
After an assistant professorship at the University of Marburg, she became a full professor at the University of Göttingen in 1991, and moved to Oxford as Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow in 1993. She moved to King"s College London in 2000, but returned to Oxford as Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Experimental Psychopathology in 2012.
She retains a visiting position at King"s College London. She was born in Kiel, West Germany.
Member British Pychol. Society, German Psychological Society (Young Scientist award 1984). Fellow German Academy of Sciences Ceopoldina.