Prof. Dr. Tim Klucken, Dipl.-Psych.
Homepage Clinical Psychology
 | Psychologischer Psychotherapeut (certified clinical psychologist, CBT)Consultation hours: on appointment
Email address: Tim.Klucken@psychologie.uni-siegen.de
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ACADEMIC CAREER
| seit 2016 | Professor (W3, Chair) for Clinical Psychology. University of Siegen |
| 2015 - 2016 | Interim Professor (W3) for Clinical Psychology. University of Siegen |
| 2014 - 2015 | Akademischer Rat (senior researcher, permanent position) at the Chair for Psychotherapy and Systems Neuroscience. Justus-Liebig-University Gießen |
| 2013 - 2014 | Interim Professor (W3) for Clinical Psychology for Children and Adolescents. Justus-Liebig-University Gießen |
| 2012 - 2013 | Akademischer Rat (senior researcher) at the Chair for Psychotherapy and Systems Neuroscience. Justus-Liebig-University Gießen |
| 2010 - 2012 | Post-doctoral Scholarship (Just’Us). Bender Institute of Neuroimaging. Justus-Liebig-University Gießen |
| 2007 - 2009 | Doctoral Scholarship, awarded by the DFG (German Research Foundation) graduate school „NeuroAct -Gehirn und Verhalten-“ (DFG-885) |
SCIENTIFIC QUALIFICATIONS
| 2013 | Habilitation (Venia Legendi in psychology). Title: „Der Einfluss von individuellen Unterschieden auf die Verarbeitung affektiver Stimuli“ [‚Effects of interindividual differences on the processing of affective stimuli‘] |
| 2009 | Promotion (Dr. rer. nat.), grade summa cum laude. Title: „Neurobiologische Korrelate konditionierter Reaktionen“ [‚Neurobiological correlates of conditioned responses‘] |
APPOINTMENTS AND NOMINATIONS
| 2016 | Appointment: Professor (W3, Chair) for Clinical Psychology. University of Siegen |
| 2016 | Appointment offer: Professor (W2) for Psychotherapy and Diagnostics (also Head of Psychotherapy Outpatient Department). Technische Universität Braunschweig. Declined. |
| 2016 | Nomination list: Professor (W3) for Clinical Psychology. Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg. |
| 2015 | Nomination list (secundo loco): Professor (W2) for Clinical and Experimental Behavioral Medicine. Ruhr-University Bochum. |
| 2014 | Nomination list (tertio loco): Professor (W2) for Experimental Clinical Psychology. Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg. |
| 2013 | Appointment offer: Tenure Track Professor (W1) for Biological Psychology. University of Koblenz-Landau. Declined. |
| 2012 | Appointment offer: Professor (W1) for General Psychology. University of Koblenz-Landau. Declined. |
GRANTS AND FUNDING ACQUISITION
| 2020 | 3,200,000 Euro. DFG-Forschergruppe. Stichwort: „Affective and cognitive mechanisms of specific Internet-use disorders“ (Verbundkoordinator: Universität Duisburg-Essen. Prof. Dr. Brand). Eigenes Teilprojekt 270,721 €. |
| 2018 | 2,140,000 Euro. BMBF-funding. Short title: „Individualisierbare Stressreduktion durch multimodale virtuelle Umgebungen“ (coordinated by Hochschule Düsseldorf). Collaborative grant with Prof. Dr. Marc Hassenzahl (PI). Personal funding volume TK: 500,000 €. |
| 2018 | 487,365 Euro. Principal Investigator of research group. Short title: "breitenwirksame Substanzabhängigkeit in der digitalen Medizin“. Collaborative grant with Prof. Dr. Niehaves & Prof. Dr. Brück. |
| 2017 | 177,950 Euro. DFG-funding (German Research Foundation). Short title: „unmittelbares vs. verzögertes Extinktionstraining“. Sole applicant. |
| 2016 | 179,200 Euro. DFG-funding (German Research Foundation). Short title: "Neuronale Korrelate appetitiver Extinktionsprozesse". Sole applicant. |
| 2014 | 97,400 Euro. DFG-funding (German Research Foundation). Short title: „Der Einfluss von Kontingenzbewusstheit auf appetitive Konditionierungsprozesse“. |
| 2011 | 118,768 Euro. DFG-funding (German Research Foundation). Short title: „Gene x Brain Interaction: Neuronale Korrelate langfristiger Extinktionsprozesse in Abhängigkeit von Genetik“. |
| 2010 | Post-doctoral Scholarship. 96,731 Euro. Short title: „Genetik und psychische Erkrankungen“. |
COMPETITIVE RESEARCH GRANTS
| 2017 | 23,000 Euro. Uni Siegen. Research funding. Sole applicant. |
| 2014 | 9,900 Euro. JLU-Gießen (Forschungsbeihilfe, research funding). Short title: „Extinktion bei positiven Lernprozessen und die Verarbeitung von Belohnung“. |
AWARDS
| 2018 | DAAD-funding. 2097 Euro |
| 2017 | Award for innovative teaching. Volume: 2000 Euro |
| 2014 | DAAD- funding. 2658 Euro |
| 2014 | Teaching for Master students. Volume: 812 Euro |
| 2012 | DAAD- funding. 2258 Euro |
| 2011 | Third-party funding prize. Justus-Liebig-University Gießen. 2000 Euro |
| 2011 | Teaching for Master students. Volume: 890 Euro |
| 2004 | Scholarship awarded by the Studienstiftung deutscher Psychologinnen und Psychologen |
EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
| 2014 | Certificate in Schema Therapy |
| 2013 | Certificate in Motivational Interviewing |
| 2012 | Certified Clinical Psychologist (CBT), State Examination |
| 2002 - 2006 | Studies in Psychology at Justus-Liebig-University Gießen Diploma in Psychology, grade ‚sehr gut‘ (with distinction) |
| 2001 | University Entrance Qualification (Abitur). Goetheschule, Wetzlar |
AD-HOC REVIEWING ACTIVITIES (SELECTION)
Archives of General Psychiatry
Behavior Therapy
Brain Research
Biological Psychiatry
Biological Psychology
Cognition and Emotion
Cerebral Cortex
Frontiers on Behavioral Neuroscience
Human Brain Mapping
NeuroImage
PLOS One
Psychiatry Research
Psychological Science
Psychophysiological Research
Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Journal of Sexual Medicine
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
PUBLICATIONS
Journals (peer-reviewed)Impact factors (IF) reflect 5-year values.
2021 48.) Jahn, K., Kordyaka, B., Machulska, A., Eiler, T. J., Gruenewald, A., Klucken, T., Brueck, R., Gethmann, C. F., & Niehaves, B., (2021). Individualized gamification elements: The impact of avatar and feedback design on reuse intention. Computers in Human Behavior. DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2021.106702
2020 47.) Croissant C., Glaesmer H., Klucken T., Kirschbaum C., Gao W., Stalder T., & Sierau S. (2020). Endocannabinoid concentrations in hair and mental health of unaccompanied refugee minors. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 104, 104683. IF: 4.9. 45.) Kruse, O., Klein, S., Tapia León I., Stark, R., & Klucken, T. (2020). Amygdala and nucleus accumbens involvement in appetitive extinction. Human Brain Mapping, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.24915. IF: 5.2.
2019 44.) Machulska, A., Kleinke. K., Eiler, T. J., Gruenewald, A., Brueck, R., Jahn, K., Niehaves, B., Gethmann, C. F, Klucken, T (2019). Retraining automatic action tendencies for smoking using mobile phone-based approach-avoidance bias training: A study protocol for a randomized controlled study. Trials 20, 720 (2019) doi:10.1186/s13063-019-3835-0. IF: 2.3 43.) Klucken, T., Kruse, O., Klein, S., Kampa, M., Tapia León I., & Stark, R. (2019). The relationship between neuroticism and appetitive conditioning. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 107068. IF: 3.4. 42.) Klein, S., Kruse, O., Tapia León I., Stalder, T., Stark, R., & Klucken, T. (2019). Increased neural reactivity to emotional pictures in men with high hair testosterone concentrations. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 14, 1009-1016. IF: 4.5. 41.) Sierau, S., Glaesmer, H., Klucken, T., & Stalder, T. (2019). Hair cortisol, lifetime traumatic experiences and psychopathology in unaccompanied refugee. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 104, 191-194. IF: 4.9. 40.) Tapia León I., Kruse, O., Stark, R., & Klucken, T. (2019). Relationship of sensation seeking with the neural correlates of appetitive conditioning. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 14, 769-775. IF: 4.5.
2018 39.) Klucken, T., Tapia León I., Blecker, C., Kruse, O., Stalder, T., & Stark, R. (2018). Failure to replicate the association between fractional anisotropy and the serotonin transporter gene (5-HTTLPR, rs25531). Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00080. IF: 3.4. 38.) Kruse, O., Tapia León I., Stalder, T., Stark, R., & Klucken, T. (2018). Altered reward learning and hippocampal connectivity following psychosocial stress. NeuroImage, 171, 15–25. IF: 6.9. 37.) Panitz, C., Sperl, M. F.J., Hennig, J., Klucken, T., Hermann, C., & Mueller, E. (2018). Fearfulness, neuroticism/anxiety, and COMT Val158Met in long-term fear conditioning and extinction. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 155, 7–20. IF: 3.4. 36.) Stark, R., Klucken, T., Potenza, M. N., Brand, M., & Strahler, J. (2018). A Current Understanding of the Behavioral Neuroscience of Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder and Problematic Pornography Use. Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports, 4, 218–231. IF: n.a. 35.) Strahler, J., Kruse, O., Wehrum-Osinsky, S., Klucken, T., & Stark, R. (2018). Neural correlates of gender differences in distractibility by sexual stimuli. NeuroImage, 176, 499–509. IF: 6.9. 34.) Tapia León I., Kruse, O., Stalder, T., Stark, R., & Klucken, T. (2018). Neural correlates of subjective CS/UCS associations in appetitive conditioning. Human Brain Mapping, 39, 1637–1646. IF: 5.2.
2017 33.) Bosch O. G., Havranek M. M., Baumberger A, Preller K. H., von Rotz R., Herdener M., Kraehenmann R., Staempfli P., Scheidegger M., Klucken T., Seifritz E., Quednow B. B. (2017). Neural underpinnings of prosexual effects induced by gamma-hydroxybutyrate in healthy male humans. European Neuropsychopharmacology, 12, 106–115. IF: 4.4. 32.) Kruse O., Tapia León I., Stark R., & Klucken T. (2017). Neural correlates of appetitive extinction in humans. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12, 106–115. 5-Year Impact Factor (IF): 4.5. 31.) Stalder S., Steudte-Schmied S., Alexander, A., Klucken, T., Vater, A., Wichmann, S., Kirschbaum, C., & Miller, R. (2017). Reply to the commentary by Parrot and Downey (2017). Psychoneuroendocrinology, 81, 160. IF: 4.9. 30.) Stalder S., Steudte-Schmied S., Alexander, A., Klucken, T., Vater, A., Wichmann, S., Kirschbaum, C., & Miller, R. (2017). Stress-related and basic determinants of hair cortisol in humans: a meta-analysis. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 77, 261–274. IF: 4.9. 29.) Stark R., Kruse O., Snagowski, J., Brand, M., Walter, B., Klucken T., & Wehrum-Osinsky, S. (2017). Neural Predictors for (Problematic) Use of Internet Sexually Explicit Material: Role of Trait Sexual Motivation and Implicit Approach Tendencies Towards Sexually Explicit Material. Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity, 8, 1–23. IF: n.a.
2016 28.) Klucken, T., Kruse O., Schweckendiek, J., Kuepper, Y., Mueller, E. M., Hennig, J., & Stark, R. (2016). No evidence for blocking the return of fear by disrupting reconsolidation prior to extinction learning. Cortex, 79, 112–122. IF: 4.7. 27.) Klucken, T., Wehrum-Osinsky, S., Kruse, O., Schweckendiek, J., & Stark, R. (2016). Altered appetitive conditioning and neural connectivity in subjects with compulsive sexual behavior. Journal of Sexual Medicine, 13, 627–636, IF: 3.3. 26.) Schweckendiek, J., Stark, R., & Klucken, T., (2016). Neuroticism and Extraversion Moderate Neural Responses and Effective Connectivity During Appetitive Conditioning. Human Brain Mapping, 37, 2992–3002. IF: 5.2.
2015 25.) Klucken, T., Schweckendiek, J., Blecker, C., Walter, B., Kuepper, Y., Hennig, J., & Stark, R. (2015). The association between the 5-HTTLPR and neural correlates of fear conditioning and connectivity. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10, 700–707. IF: 4.5. 24.) Klucken, T., Kruse O., Wehrum-Osinsky, S., Schweckendiek, J., Hennig, J., & Stark, R. (2015). Impact of COMT Val158Met polymorphism on appetitive conditioning and amygdala/prefrontal effective connectivity. Human Brain Mapping, 36, 1093–1101. IF: 5.2. 23.) Klucken, T., Kruse, O., Schweckendiek, J., & Stark, R. (2015). Increased skin conductance responses and neural activity during fear conditioning are associated with a repressive coping style. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, doi: 10.3389/ fnbeh.2015.00132. IF: 3.4. 22.) Stark, R., Kagerer, S., Walter, B., Vaitl, D., Klucken, T., & Wehrum, S. (2015). Trait Sexual Motivation Questionnaire: Concept and validation, The Journal of Sexual Medicine, 12, 1080–1091. IF: 3.3.
2014 21.) Kagerer, S., Wehrum, S., Klucken, T., Walter, B., Vaitl, D., & Stark, R. (2014). Sex attracts: Investigating individual differences in attentional bias to sexual stimuli. Plos One, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0107795. IF: 3.3. 22.) Wehrum, S., Klucken, T., Kagerer S., Walter, B., Hermann, A., Vaitl, D., & Stark, R. (2014). At the second glance: Stability of neural responses towards visual sexual stimuli. The Journal of Sexual Medicine, 11, 2720–2737. IF: 3.3.
2013 19.) Klucken, T.*, Alexander, N.*, Schweckendiek, J., Merz, C. J., Kagerer, S., Osinsky, R., Walter, B., Vaitl, D., Hennig, J., & Stark, R. (2013). Individual differences in neural correlates of fear conditioning as a function of 5-HTTLPR and stressful life events. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8, 318–325. IF: 4.5. 18.) Klucken, T., Schweckendiek, J., Merz, C. J., Vaitl, D., & Stark, R. (2013). Neuronal, electrodermal, and evaluative responses in disgust extinction. Behavioral Neuroscience, 127, 380–386. IF: 2.5. 17.) Klucken, T., Wehrum, S., Schweckendiek, J., Merz, C. J., Kagerer, S., Hennig, J., Vaitl, D., & Stark, R. (2013). The 5-HTTLPR polymorphism is associated with facilitated appetitive conditioning. Human Brain Mapping, 34, 2549–2560. IF: 5.2. 16.) Merz, C. J., Wolf, O. T., Schweckendiek, J., Klucken, T., Vaitl, D., & Stark, R. (2013). Stress differentially affects fear conditioning in men and women. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 38, 2529–2541. IF: 4.9. 15.) Schweckendiek, J., Klucken, T., Merz, C. J., Walter, B., Vaitl, D., & Stark, R. (2013). Learning to like disgust. Frontiers of Human Neuroscience, 7, DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00346. IF: 4.0. 14.) Wehrum, S., Klucken, T., Kagerer S., Walter, B., Hermann, A., Vaitl, D., & Stark, R. (2013). Why sex is on my mind: Gender commonalities and differences in the neural processing of visual sexual stimuli. The Journal of Sexual Medicine, 10, 1328–1342. IF: 3.3.
2012 13.) Klucken, T., Schweckendiek, J., Koppe, G., Merz, C. J., Kagerer, S., Walter, B., Sammer, G., Vaitl, D., & Stark, R. (2012). Neural correlates of disgust- and fear-conditioned responses. Neuroscience, 201, 209–218. IF: 3.5. 12.) Alexander, N.*, Klucken, T.*, Koppe, G., Osinsky, R., Walter, B., Vaitl, D., Sammer, G., Stark, R., & Hennig, J. (2012). Interaction of 5-HTTLPR and environmental adversity: increased amygdala-hypothalamus connectivity as a potential mechanism linking neural and endocrine hyper-reactivity. Biological Psychiatry, 72, 49–56. IF: 11.3. 11.) Merz, C. J., Tabbert, K., Schweckendiek, J., Klucken, T., Vaitl, D., Stark, R., & Wolf, O. T. (2012). Neuronal correlates of extinction learning are modulated by sex hormones. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 7, 809–830. IF: 4.5. 10.) Merz, C. J., Tabbert, K., Schweckendiek, J., Klucken, T., Vaitl, D., Stark, R., & Wolf, O. T. (2012). Oral contraceptive usage alters the effects of cortisol on implicit fear learning. Hormones and Behavior, 62, 531–538. IF: 4.0.
2011 9.) Kagerer, S., Klucken, T., Wehrum, S., Zimmermann, M., Schienle, A., Walter, B., Vaitl, D., & Stark, R. (2011). Neural Activation Toward Erotic Stimuli in Homosexual and Heterosexual Males. The Journal of Sexual Medicine, 8, 3132-3143. IF: 3.3. 8.) Schweckendiek, J., Klucken, T., Merz, C. J., Tabbert, K., Walter, B., Ambach, W., Vaitl, D., & Stark, R. (2011). Weaving the (neuronal) web: fear learning in spider phobia. NeuroImage, 54, 681–688. IF: 6.9. 7.) Tabbert, K., Merz, C. J., Klucken, T., Schweckendiek, J., Vaitl, D., Wolf, O. T., & Stark, R. (2011). Influence of contingency awareness on neural, electrodermal and evaluative responses during fear conditioning. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 6, 495–506. IF: 4.5.
2010 6.) Klucken, T., Brouwer, A.-M., Chatziastros, A., Kagerer, S., Netter, P., & Hennig, J. (2010). The impact of coping style on gaze duration. Plos One, 5, e15395. IF: 3.3. 5.) Merz, C. J., Tabbert, K., Schweckendiek, J., Klucken, T., Vaitl, D., Stark, R., & Wolf, O. T. (2010). Investigating the impact of sex and cortisol on implicit fear conditioning with fMRI. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 35, 33–46. IF: 4.9 4.) Tabbert, K., Merz, C. J., Klucken, T., Schweckendiek, J., Vaitl, D., Wolf, O. T., & Stark, R. (2010). Cortisol enhances neural differentiation during fear acquisition and extinction in contingency aware young women. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 94, 392–401. IF: 3.4.
2009 3.) Klucken, T., Tabbert, K., Schweckendiek, J., Merz, C. J., Kagerer, S., Vaitl, D., & Stark, R. (2009). Contingency learning in human fear conditioning involves the ventral striatum. Human Brain Mapping, 30, 3636–3644. IF: 5.2. 2.) Klucken, T., Kagerer, S., Schweckendiek, J., Tabbert, K., Vaitl, D., & Stark, R. (2009). Neural, electrodermal and behavioral response patterns in contingency aware and unaware subjects during a picture-picture conditioning paradigm. Neuroscience, 158, 721–731. IF: 3.5. 1.) Klucken, T., Schweckendiek, J., Merz, C. J., Tabbert, K., Walter, B., Kagerer, S., Vaitl, D., & Stark, R. (2009). Neural activations of the acquisition of conditioned sexual arousal: effects of contingency awareness and sex. The Journal of Sexual Medicine, 6, 3071–3085. IF: 3.3. |
Book Chapters3.) Klucken, T. (2017). Folgen von Psychotherapie: Ausgewählte Aspekte im Kontext der Wirksamkeitsforschung. In Weinbach, H., Coelen, T., Dollinger, B., Munsch, C., Rohrmann A. (Eds.), Folgen sozialer Hilfen: Theoretische und empirische Zugänge. Weinheim: Beltz. 2.) Stark, R., & Klucken, T. (2017). Neuroscientific Approaches to (Online) Pornography Addiction. In Reuter, M., & Montag, C. (Eds.), Internet Addiction. New York: Springer. 1.) Klucken, T. (2013). Neurobiologische Grundlagen der appetitiven Konditionierung. In A. Stirn, R. Stark, K. Tabbert, S. Wehrum, & S. Oddo (Eds.), Sexualität, Körper und Neurobiologie: Grundlagen und Störungsbilder im interdisziplinären Fokus. Stuttgart: Kolhammer.
*: shared authorship |
Contributions to Congresses (selection)Klucken, T., (2015). The association between the COMT VAL158Met-polymorphism, extinction learning, and extinction recall. 41. Tagung der Psychologie und Gehirn. |