Serban IONESCU MD, PhD

Emeritus professor of psychopathology

University Paris 8 (France) and

University of Québec in Three-Rivers (Canada)

Psychiatrist and clinical psychologist, emeritus professor of psychopathology at the Paris 8 University (France)  and University of Québec in Trois-Rivières (Canada), Serban Ionescu is  author or co-author of over 220 publications, including 29 volumes, among which is the “Treatise on assisted resilience" (2011). Doctor Honoris Causa of the West University (Timisoara, Romania) and University of Liège (Belgium), he is corresponding member of the Academy of Medicine in Romania and Knight of the Order of Academic Palms (France). He has lectured as a guest professor in several universities, including the University of Hull (Canada), the University of Brussels, West University of Timisoara (Romania), the University of Constantine (Algeria), the National University of Rwanda, the Central University of Ecuador, the Ho Chi Minh City University of medicine (Vietnam), the Venice Salesian University, the Catholic University of Central Africa, the University of Bukavu (Democratic Republic of Congo). Of the 72 students who prepared and defended under his supervision their Doctoral thesis or Habilitation to supervise research, 32 are now professors in France, Canada, Belgium, Rwanda, Brazil, Algeria or Turkey. He is a member of the Scientific Council of the Campus Condorcet in Paris and has coordinated (with Colette Jourdan) resilience assessment multi-site project (Algeria, Canada, France, Mongolia, Romania, and Rwanda). He chaired the Second World Congress on Resilience and is President Resilio, the International Association for the Promotion and Diffusion of the Research on Resilience.

Onur GÜNTÜRKÜN

married, two children

1975-1980           Student of Psychology at the University of Bochum, Germany
1980                      Diploma in Psychology (highest possible grade), University of Bochum, Germany
1980-1984           Doctoral Thesis at the Animal Psychology Laboratory, University of Bochum, Germany
Winter 1982/83   Summer 1985 and 1986 Guest Fellow at the Neuroanatomy Laboratory Saarland University, Homburg, Germany
1984                      Dr. phil., University of Bochum (summa cum laude)
1984-1987           Research Assistant at the Animal Psychology Laboratory University of Bochum, Germany
1987-1988           Habilitation Fellowship of the German Research Council
Summer 1987    Guest Fellow at the Comparative Neuroscience Laboratory, Institute CNRS des Neurosciences, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
1987-1988           Guest Fellow at the University of California at San Diego, School of Medicine, USA
1988-1992           Research Assistant, Human Information Processing Lab, Univ. Konstanz, Germany
1992                      Habilitation for Psychology
1992                      Senior Research Fellow at the University of Konstanz, Germany
1993                      Associate Professor for Biopsychology at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
1995                      Award of the Alfried Krupp zu Bohlen und Halbach Foundation for young scientists
since 1997           Full Professor for Biopsychology at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
1998                      Visiting Scientist, Commonwealth Res. Centre (Brisbane, Australia); July-December
2000                      Honorary Doctorate of the University of Istanbul
2006                      Visiting Scientist, Aegean and Dokuz Eylül Universities (Izmir, Turkey); July-December
2006                      Member of the Leopoldina; since 2008: German National Academy of Sciences
2006                      Wilhelm-Wundt-Medal of German Psychological Society
2006                      Honorary member of the German Psychological Society
2007                      TÜBITAK Special Science Award of the Turkish Republic
2008                      Honorary Doctorate of the Dokuz Eylül University (Izmir, Turkey)
2009                      Superior Achievement Award of the Parliament of the Turkish Republic
2011                      Medal for Merit of the State North Rhine-Westphalia
2011                      Visiting Scientist at the Bio-Imaging Lab, Univ. of Antwerp (Belgium); April-September
2013                      Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Award
2014                      Communicator Award
2014-2015           Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
2015                      Member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Arts