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Dr. Fritz Renner

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University of Freiburg
Experimental Psychopathology

Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
June 2018 – September 2019

E-Mail: fritz.renner@psychologie.uni-freiburg.de

Last Update: 31.08.2019

Curriculum Vitae

I currently work as a postdoctoral researcher at the department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the University of Freiburg. I am an experimental psychologist and my research is on the impact of mental imagery on behaviour with a focus on developing experimental interventions that target behavioural aspects of depression. I completed my undergraduate training in psychology at Maastricht University. This was followed by a six months research internship at the University of Pennsylvania. I completed my PhD in 2014 on psychological treatment innovation for chronic depression (Prof. Marcus Huibers and Prof. Arnoud Arntz). After my PhD I joined the Emotional Disorders and Mental Imagery group at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge (Prof. Emily Holmes).

My recent work was supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship from the European Union. My current research investigates the relationship between mental imagery and behaviour. Understanding how mental imagery can impact behaviour can help inform the development of new interventions, for example for depression by targeting behavioural aspects of depression.

For a full list of publications see: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Fritz_Renner

Selected Publications

FRIAS Project