Dr. Silja Bellingrath

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Postdoctoral Fellow in Health Psychology Jacobs Center on Lifelong Learning and Institutional Development Street Address: Jacobs University Bremen Research V College Ring 2 D-28759 Bremen (Schönebeck /Grohn) Mailing Address: Jacobs University Bremen Jacobs Center Campus Ring 1 28759 Bremen Telephone:    +49 421 200-4732 E-Mail:    s.bellingrath@jacobs-university.de Office:    Research V, Room 35

University Education:

2005	Diploma in Psychology (MA equivalent) Diploma thesis: 'Assoziation ausgewählter Genvarianten mit der Aktivität der Hypothalamus-Hypophysen-Nebennierenrinden-Achse''	University of Trier Germany
2008	Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) Doctoral thesis: 'A Psychobiological Perspective of Chronic Work Stress, Burnout and Exhaustion'	University of Trier Germany

Fellowships & Awards:

Research and Teaching Positions:

1999	Research Internship	Department for Clinical and Developmental Psychology, University of Cologne
2000	Research Internship	Center for Psychobiology and Psychosomatic Research (FPP), University of Trier
2003-2004	Research Assistant	Institute for the Documentation of Psychological Information in the German speaking countries (ZPID), University of Trier
2004	Research Assistant	Department of Behavioral Genetics, University of Trier
2005	Research Assistant	Department of Theoretical and Clinical Psychobiology, University of Trier
2005-2008	Doctoral Fellow and Lecturer	Department of Theoretical and Clinical Psychobiology, University of Trier
2007	Research Internship	Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, Women and Children's Health and Well-being Project
since 2008	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	Health Psychology, Jacobs Center on Lifelong Learning and Institutional Development Jacobs University Bremen

Main Research Interests:

Other Professional Activities:

2001	Project Work for HOCHTIEF (Human Resource Management) and Contact and Cooperation e.V., University of Trier
2002	Psychological Internship at the Human Resource Department of Kienbaum Management Consultants GmbH, Gummersbach, Germany
2002-2003	Training in conflict moderation (Ausbildung in Konfliktorientierter Moderation) University of Trier

Academic Publications:

Bellingrath S., Weigl T. & Kudielka B.M. (2009). Chronic work stress and exhaustion is associated with higher allostatic load in female school teachers. Stress, 12(1): 37-48.

von Känel R., Bellingrath S. & Kudielka B.M. (2009). Overcommitment but not effort-reward-imbalance relates to stress-induced coagulation changes in working teachers. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 37: 20-8.

von Känel R., Bellingrath S. & Kudielka B.M. (2009). Longitudinal association between changes in depressive symptoms and plasma fibrinogen levels in school teachers. Psychophysiology, 46: 473-80.

von Känel R., Bellingrath S. & Kudielka B.M. (2009). Association of exhaustion and depressive symptoms with changes in Fibrin D-dimer to acute psychosocial stress. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 67: 93-101.

Bellingrath, S. (2008). The Trials and Tribulations of Teaching. A Psychobiological Perspective on Chronic Work Stress in School Teachers. Göttingen: Cuvillier Verlag.

Bellingrath S., Weigl T. & Kudielka B.M. (2008). Cortisol dysregulation in school teachers in relation to burnout, vital exhaustion, and effort-reward-imbalance. Biological Psychology, 78: 104-113.

Bellingrath S. & Kudielka B.M. (2008). Effort-reward-imbalance and overcommitment are associated with hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis responses to acute psychosocial stress in healthy working school teachers. Psychoneuroendrocrinology, 33: 1335-1343.

Klingmann P.O., Kugler I., Steffke T.S., Bellingrath S., Kudielka B.M. & Hellhammer D.H. (2008). Sex-specific prenatal programming: A risk for fibromyalgia? Stress, Neurotransmitters, and Hormones: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1148: 446-455.

Kudielka B.M., Bellingrath S. & von Känel R. (2008). Circulating fibrinogen but not D-dimer level is associated with vital exhaustion in school teachers. Stress, 11: 250-258.

Kudielka B.M. & Bellingrath S. (2008).  The Trier Teacher Stress Study: a psychobiological perspective. In: F. Columbus (Ed.), Biological psychology: new research. New York: Nova Science Publishers Inc.

von Känel R., Bellingrath S. & Kudielka B.M. (2008). Association between burnout and circulating levels of pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines in school teachers. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 65: 51-59.

Kudielka B.M., Bellingrath S. & Hellhammer D.H. (2007). Further support for higher salivary cortisol levels in "morning" compared to "evening" persons. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 62: 595-596.

Kudielka B.M., Bellingrath S. & Hellhammer D.H. (2006). Cortisol in burnout and vital exhaustion: an overview. Applied Psychology to Work and Rehabilitation Medicine, 28, Suppl.1: 34-42.

2005

Bellingrath, S., Kumsta, R., Meyer, J., Moser, D., Federenko, I., Hellhammer, D. H., & Wüst, S. (2005). Association of a polymorphism in the H6PD gene and basal cortisol secretion, body fat mass and leptin level. Zeitschrift für Medizinische Psychologie, 14: 111-117.

 
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