Martin Diers

Professional Career

09/1999-06/2000 undergraduate Studies in Psychology, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Niederlande

10/2000-08/2002 Graduate Studies of Psychology, University of Konstanz 

11/2001 Thesis written at the Max-Plank-Institut for Biological Cybernetic, Tübingen, WG Comparative Neurobiology, Prof. Dr. Kuno Kirschfeld

08/2002 Diploma in Psychology, University of Konstanz 

10/2002-06/2005 PhD student at the Department of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim

06/2006 Ph.D.

10/2002-12/2003 research assistant in the project “Phantom phenomena after unilateral arm amputation”

01/2004-12/2008 research assistant in the project “Neuronal Plasticity and learning processes for chronic pain syndromes” (CRO)

05/2004-04/2009 clinical training in cognitive-behavioral therapy

Since 01/2009 research assistant in the PHANTOM MIND project “Phantom phenomena: A window to the mind and the brain”

Since 09/09 Division manager of the outpatient pain clinic

Teaching

• Medical Psychology

Research

• Mechanisms for acquisition and extinction of pain in chronic pain syndromes
• Cortical plasticity after amputation of an extremity

Awards

• 05/2011 1st price of the Young investigator Award of the Janssen-Cilag GmbH

• 09/2011 Nominated for Best Poster Presentation of the 7th Congress of the European Federation of IASP® Chapters (EFIC®), See what you feel behind: Looking at one's own back reduces experimental pain intensity in chronic back pain patients.