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Dr. Bianca Kollmann

Department Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience

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About me

I have a PhD in neuroscience and am a psychological psychotherapist. I have been researching resilience for several years and am delighted to continue this work at the CIMH in Michèle Wessa's research group. In our EU project XR²esilience, we are conducting a longitudinal study to examine the resilience of nursing professionals. This professional group in particular faces many challenges and experiences a great deal of stress their work life. Since we all might need health care at some point in our life, our team is committed to strengthening the resilience of nursing professionals, but also to learn from nurses with respect to what keeps them mentally healthy in their everyday working lives.

 

Bianca holds a Bachelor degree in Biological Psychology and a Research Master degree in Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, with a specialisation in neuropsychology. She holds a PhD in psychology and is a licensed psychotherapist (CBT).

Publications in peer reviewed journals since 2006

TOP 5 publications:

  1. Petri-Romão P, Mediavilla R, Restrepo-Henao A, Puhlmann LM, Zerban M, Ahrens KF, Barbui C, Basten U, Bayón C, Chmitorz A, Felez-Nobrega M, Kollmann B, Lieb K, McDaid D, McGreevy KR, Melchior M, Muñoz-Sanjosé A, Neumann RJ, Park AL, Plichta MM, Purgato M, Reif A, Schenk C, Schick A, Sebastian A, Sijbrandij M, Smith P, Tüscher O, Wessa M, Witteveen AB, Yuen KS, Haro JM, Ayuso-Mateos JL, Kalisch R. Positive appraisal style predicts long-term stress resilience and mediates the effect of a pro-resilience intervention.Nat Commun. 2025 16(1):10269.
  2. Ahrens KF, Schenk C, Kollmann B, Puhlmann LMC, Neumann RJ, Schäfer SK, Reis D, Basten U, Weichert D, Fiebach CJ, Lutz B, Wessa M, Repple J, Lieb K, Tüscher O, Reif A, Kalisch R, Plichta MM. Resilience to major life events: Advancing trajectory modeling and resilience factor identification by controlling for background stressor exposure.Am Psychol. 2024 79(8):1076-1091.
  3. Ruf A, Ahrens KF, Gruber JR, Neumann RJ, Kollmann B, Kalisch R, Lieb K, Tüscher O, Plichta MM, Nöthlings U, Ebner-Priemer U, Reif A, Matura S. Move past adversity or bite through it? Diet quality, physical activity, and sedentary behavior in relation to resilience.Am Psychol. 2025 80(2):180-192. Epub 2024 Nov 7.
  4. Ahrens KF, Neumann RJ, von Werthern NM, Kranz TM, Kollmann B, Mattes B, Puhlmann LMC, Weichert D, Lutz B, Basten U, Fiebach CJ, Wessa M, Kalisch R, Lieb K, Chiocchetti AG, Tüscher O, Reif A, Plichta MM. Association of polygenic risk scores and hair cortisol with mental health trajectories during COVID lockdown.Transl Psychiatry. 2022 12(1):396.
  5. Ahrens KF, Neumann RJ, Kollmann B, Brokelmann J, von Werthern NM, Malyshau A, Weichert D, Lutz B, Fiebach CJ, Wessa M, Kalisch R, Plichta MM, Lieb K, Tüscher O, Reif A. Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on mental health in Germany: longitudinal observation of different mental health trajectories and protective factors.Transl Psychiatry. 2021 11(1):392.

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