Ulrike Ehlert

Ehlert studies sociology and psychology at the University Trier/Germany where she also received her Ph.D.  She is certified psychotherapist and made ample practical experiences as Head of the Psychological Consul­tation Liaison Services of the University of Trier, at the Herz-Jesu-Kran­kenhaus, and the Mutterhaus der Borromäerinnen in Trier, before she got full professorship in Zurich/Switzerland in 1999. Her research is concerned with many unsolved questions from Psychobiology and Behavioral Medicine, focus­sing, among other topics, on the psychobiology of stress and stress related disorders, as well as on the psychoendo­crinological deter­minants of partnership quality, conflict resolution, and transition to parenthood. Since 2000 she is head of the research group "Behavioral Neurobiology" at the Center of Neuroscience of the ETH & the University of Zurich.