Christine Heim PhD

Prof. Christine Heim is the Director of the Institute of Medical Psychology at Charité. She is also a Member of the Cluster of Excellence Neurocure at Charité in Berlin as well as Professor of Biobehavioral Health and Member of the Network on Child Maltreatment Solutions at Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Heim’s research is focused on the neurobiological consequences of early-life trauma and their relationship to the development of depression, anxiety, and functional somatic disorders.

She has authored or coauthored more than 100 articles and chapters. The impact of her work is acknowledged in more than 20,000 citations (H Index: 52 Google Scholar). She is the recipient of more than 10 honors and awards, including the 2004 Chaim Danieli Young Professional Award of the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies, the 2007 Curt P. Richter Award of the International Society for Psychoneuroendocrinology, and the 2015 Patricia Barchas Award in Sociophysiology of the American Psychosomatic Society.

She is an elected as a member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. In 2015, she was elected into the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, one of the highest scientific honors in Germany. She is the recipient of multiple federal grants and foundation grants, and she serves on numerous national and international scientific review committees regarding research on the consequences of childhood trauma.