Prof. Dr. Dr. Olga Pollatos
Olga Pollatos studied psychology and medicine at the Technical University (TU) of Berlin and the Ludwig-Maximilian-University (LMU) of Munich. In 2004, she completed her Ph.D. thesis in psychology in the field of emotions and cortical functions at the Department of Biological Psychology at LMU Munich. From 2004-2008, she habilitated with a focus on biological psychology and neuroscience at LMU Munich; in 2008, she received the “Venia legendi” in psychology. After receiving her license to practice medicine in 2007, she worked at the Department of Neurology at LMU from 2008-2009 and she completed her doctoral studies (Dr. med.) in neuroradiology. She also spent research periods abroad at the University of Sussex and the Academic Radiology in Nottingham. From 2009-2012, she was a junior professor for the psychology of emotion and motivation at the University of Potsdam. Since September 2012, she is the head of the Department of Clinical & Health Psychology at Ulm University. Olga Pollatos is trained psychotherapist (CBT) with additional qualification in group therapy as well as child and youth psychotherapy, an additional qualification in special pain therapy is still ongoing.
Function
Professorial Administration of the Psychotherapeutic Outpatient Clinic of the University of Ulm
Research interests
- Areas of research: Health, nutrition and sports activity
Personality and physical processes for nutrition- and weight-management, influence of odor perception, pathological disorders like eating disorders and obesity, influential factors of sportive performance.
- Areas of research: Embodied Cognition
Regulation of risk-behavior, self- and emotion-regulation, emotion- and physical processes. Embodiment of body perception, pathological disorders like alexithymia as well as anxiety- and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- Areas of research: Pain
Pain processing and emotion, empathy and personality, empathy for pain, stress processing and pain, pathological disorders like somatoform- and personality disorders.
- Methodological areas of research
Peripheral physiological variables, heart rate variability, biofeedback, interoception, EEG and evoked potential, EGG, functional imaging, connectivity analysis, glucose metabolism, experimental manipulation of central activation by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).
Activities in academic self-administration
| State of Baden-Württemberg | |
| 2020 - 2024 | Chairwoman of the supervisory board of the Baden-Württemberg Centre for Teaching and Learning |
| Ulm University | |
| Since 2018 | vice president education |
| 2017 - 2018 | Head of the Institute of Psychology and Education |
| 2017 - 2018 | Vice dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Computer Science and Psychology |
| 2016 - 2018 | Member of the Faculty Council |
| Since 2015 | Equal Opportunities Officer at Ulm University |
| 2015 - 2017 | Head of the Audit Committee of the Institute of Psychology and Education |
| Since 2014 | Co-opted member of the Faculty of Medicine at Ulm University |
| Since 2013 | Member of the Study Commission for Psychology |
University of Potsdam | |
| 2010 - 2012 | Member of the Faculty Council |
Professional Career
| Since 2012 | Professor (W3) for Clinical and Health Psychology at Ulm University |
| 2009 - 2012 | Professor (W1) for Emotion and Motivation Psychology at the University of Potsdam |
| 2008 - 2009 | Assistant doctor at the Neurological University hospital of LMU Munich |
| 2004 - 2010 | Research stays at the University of Sussex and the Academic Radiology in Nottingham |
| 2004 - 2008 | Postdoc in the Department of Biological Psychology at LMU Munich |
| 2000 - 2004 | PhD student in the Department of Biological Psychology at LMU Munich |
Education
| 2021 - 2023 | Additional qualification in Child and Youth Psychotherapy (vfkv München) |
| 2020 - ongoing | Additional qualification in Special Pain Therapy, Institute for Pain Therapy Munich (ISM) |
| 2020 | Additional qualification in Group Therapy, Clinical Behavioral Therapy Institute (VFKV e.V.) , Munich |
| 2016 - 2020 | Postgraduate Psychotherapy Training, Clinical Behavioral Therapy Institute (VFKV e.V.) , Munich |
| 2008 | Habilitation and Venia legendi for Psychology at LMU Munich |
| 2008 - 2011 | Doctorate with the degree Dr. med. at the Institute of Neuroradiology at LMU Munich (Summa cum laude) |
| 2000 - 2004 | Doctorate with the degree Dr. phil. in Biological Psychology at LMU Munich (Summa cum laude) |
| 2000 - 2008 | Study of Medicine at LMU Munich |
| 1994 - 2000 | Study of Psychology at TU Berlin and LMU Munich |
| 1994 | Abitur (German A Levels) |
Honours and prices
| 2015 | MSD Health Prize for the team of "Komm mit in das gesunde Boot". |
| 2015 | Hufeland Award for prevention and health promotion for the team of "Komm mit in das gesunde Boot". |
| 2014 | Health Prize of the RUFZEICHEN GESUNDHEIT! Foundation for the team of "Komm mit in das gesunde Boot". |
| 2010 - 2012 | Awarded scholarship of the Senior Teaching Professionals Program at the University of Potsdam. |
| 2010 - 2012 | Awarded grant of the Erasmus teacher mobility programm, host institution University of Sussex. |
| 2010 - 2012 | Selected participant of the ProFil-Program of the University of Potsdam and the Universities of Berlin. |
| 2007 | Junior Research Grant of the British Council Researcher Exchange Program, host University of Nottingham, Academic Radiology. |
| 2006 - 2007 | Awarded scholarship for habilitation and post-doc research at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. |
| 2000 - 2003 | Awarded scholrship for dissertation at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. |
| 1994 - 2000 | Bavarian Award for the Highly Gifted. |