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Prof. Oliver T. Wolf is a Full-term Tenure Professor of Cognitive Psychology at Ruhr University Bochum's Department of Cognitive Psychology. He leads the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and has held leadership roles including Director of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (2018-2021) and Speaker of the International Graduate School of Neuroscience (2018-2021). His professional journey includes appointments at Bielefeld University and Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, along with postdoctoral research at Rockefeller University and NYU Medical Center.
Education highlights include a 2001 Habilitation in Psychology from Heinrich Heine University and a 1997 PhD from Trier University. His research focuses on stress impact on cognition, memory, emotion regulation, and decision-making, with emphasis on neurobiological mechanisms and patient populations. He employs behavioral, psychophysiological, and neuroimaging methods.
Key awards include DFG Heisenberg Scholarship (2003) and Habilitation Award (2002). Recent grants (2022-2016) investigate stress effects on memory systems, extinction processes, and neural correlates of stress responses. He serves on review boards for DFG and international journals, and is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina).
Teaching activities span cognitive psychology and psychoneuroendocrine stress research, including lectures, lab courses, and journal clubs. His lab investigates stress-related cognitive impairments and their neural underpinnings, with particular attention to sex differences and aging populations.
