• Mindfulness-based procedures and biofeedback training
   
• Stress management for students and employees
   
• Mobile interventions to improve interoceptive abilities and health-related parameters

since 06/2019	Research assistant in the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Institute of Psychology and Education, Ulm University
2024	PhD at the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, topic: Enhancing Interoception, Stress Relief, and Health through Mind-Body Interventions
since 10/2021	Training as a psychological psychotherapist in systemic psychotherapy at the Systemica Institut
10/2020 - 02/2023	Research assistant at the Leadership Personality Center Ulm (LPCU) and the Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Ulm
10/2016 - 03/2019	Master’s programme in Psychology (M. Sc.; key subjects: Clinical Psychology and Personal and Organizational Psychology, Ulm University); semester abroad at the California State University of Northridge, Los Angeles
10/2014 - 03/2019	Student assistant in the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Institute of Psychology and Education, Ulm University
10/2013 - 09/2016	Bachelor’s programme in Psychology (B. Sc.), Ulm University

Winter Semester 2024/2025

• Colloquium of the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology (Bachelor and Master, Ulm University)

Summer Semester 2024

• Seminar "Research-orientated internship – Psychotherapy Research" (Master of Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, Ulm University)

Winter Semester 2023/2024

• Seminar „Preventive measures to support work-life balance“ (Master, Ulm University)

Summer Semester 2023

• Seminar "Mobile assessment of health parameters in research and practice" (Master, Ulm University)

Summer Semester 2022

• Block course „Prevention and health promotion” (Medicine, Ulm University / University Hospital Ulm)

Summer Semester 2021

• Lead the colloquium of the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology including a Journal Club (Bachelor and Master, Ulm University)
• Block course „Prevention and health promotion” (Medicine, Ulm University / University Hospital Ulm)

Winter Semester 2020/2021

• Seminar „Preventive measures to support work-life balance“ (Master, Ulm University)

Schillings, C., Meissner, D., Erb, B., Bendig, E., Schultchen, D., Pollatos, O. (2024). A chatbot-based intervention with ELME to improve health-related parameters in a stressed. Presentation held at the 12th Scientific Meeting of the International Society for Research on Internet Interventions (ISRII), Limerick, Ireland.

Schillings, C., Meissner, D., Erb, B., Bendig, E., Schultchen, D., Pollatos, O. (2024). Chatbot ELME: The effects of a chatbot-based intervention on stress and health-related parameters. Presentation held at the 38th Annual Conference of the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS), Lisbon, Portugal.

Schillings, C., Meissner, D., Erb, B., Bendig, E., Schultchen, D., Pollatos, O. (2024). A chatbot-based intervention with ELME to improve health-related parameters in a stressed sample. Presentation held at the 53th Conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), Vienna, Austria.

Schillings, C., Balint, E. M., Waller, C., Gündel, H. O., Jarczok, M. N. (2024). 24h-Herzratenvariabilität als Kommunikationstool für individuelle psychosomatische Beratung im beruflichen Kontext. Presentation held at the Annual Meeting of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Biofeedback (DGBfb) e. V., Hamburg, Germany.

Schillings, C., Meissner, D., Erb, B., Schultchen, D., Bendig, E., Pollatos, O. (2023). A chatbot-based intervention with ELME to improve stress and health-related parameters in a stressed sample. Presentation held on the 21tst World Congress of the International Organization of Psychophysiology in Geneva, Switzerland.

Schillings, C., Balint, E. M., Waller, C., Guendel, H. O., Jarczok, M. N. (2023). 24h-Herzratenvariabilität als Kommunikationstool für individuelle psychosomatische Beratung im beruflichen Kontext. Presentation held on the German Congress for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy (DKPM), Berlin, Germany.

Schillings, C., Meissner, D., Erb, B., Kegelmann, J., Gorhan, S., Schultchen, D., Bendig, E., Pollatos, O. (2022). Feasibility study of a three-week chatbot-based intervention for stress reduction and health improvement. Poster presented on the 36th Conference of the European Health Psychology Society in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Schillings, C., Jarczok, M. N., Gündel, H. O., Weimer, K. (2022). Trajectories of stress mindset measures in psychosomatic patients and its association with heart rate variability – results from the MEPP study. Poster presented on the 80. Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, Long Beach, California.

Schillings, C., Meissner, D., Erb, B., Kegelmann, J., Gorhan, S., Schultchen, D., Bendig, E., Pollatos, O. (2021). Feasibility study of a three-week chatbot-based intervention for stress reduction and health improvement. Poster presented on the 15th Congress of the Fachgruppe Gesundheitspsychologie, Online conference, Germany.

Schillings, C., Karanassios, G., Schultchen, D., & Pollatos, O. (2021). Can you learn from the feedback of your heart? Short-term and long-term effects of a cardiac interoceptive biofeedback training on interoceptive abilities and stress. Poster presented on the 34th Conference of the European Health Psychology Society, Online conference.

Schillings, C., Balint, E. M., Waller, C., Guendel, H. O., & Jarczok, M. N. (2021). 24h-heart rate variability as a communication tool for a personalized psychosomatic consultation in police officers. Presentation held on the 52nd International Annual Meeting, Society for Psychotherapy Research, Online conference, Heidelberg, Germany.

Schillings, C., Schultchen, D., Küchler, A.-M., Baumeister, H., & Pollatos, O. (2019). Can you train your heartbeat perception with a mindfulness training? Effects of an online mindfulness-based intervention on interoceptive processes in students. Poster presented on the 33th Conference of the European Health Psychology Society in Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Schillings, C., Schultchen, D., Karabatsiakis, A., Messner, M., & Pollatos, O. (2019). Effects of an 8-week body scan intervention on individually perceived psychological stress and related steroid hormones in hair. Presentation held on the 14th Congress of the Fachgruppe Gesundheitspsychologie in Greifswald, Germany.