Univ. Prof. Dr. phil. Dipl.-Psychmed. Siegfried Gauggel

Psychologischer Psychotherapeut, Klinische Neuropsychologie, Direktor des Institutes für Medizinische Psychologie und Medizinische Soziologie am Universitätsklinikum der RWTH Aachen

Siegfried Gauggel finished his diploma in Psychology at the University of Konstanz. He received his doctoral degree from the Free University of Berlin. During his stay in Berlin he was working as a clinical psychologist at a neurologic and orthopedic rehabilitation hospital. 1997 he became a charted neuropsychologist by the German Society of Neuropsychology. 1993 he moved from Berlin to Marburg where he had a position as an assistant professor for clinical psychology at the Philipps-University. 1999 he received his "venia legendi" in psychology, especially clinical psychology and psychotherapy. During this year he also became a charted psychological psychologist. After one year as an assistant professor for medical psychology at the University Hospital of the RWTH Aachen he accepted a "call" to the Technical University of Chemnitz where he became Professor of Clinical Psychology. 2004 he left the Technical University of Chemnitz and moved to Aachen where he is now Professor of Medical Psychology at the University Hospital of the RWTH Aachen.


Positions and Employment

1988 - 1989Research Assistant University of Konstanz ("Negative symptoms and expressed emotions in patients with Schizophrenia, drug abuse and brain injury")
1989 - 1992Clinical Psychologist at a rehabilitation hospital for neurological and orthopedic patients in Berlin
1993 - 1999Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the University of Marburg
1999 - 2000Assistant Professor of Medical Psychology at the University Hospital of the RWTH Aachen
2000 - 2004Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Technology Chemnitz
10.2004 - until nowDirector of the Institute of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, University Hospital of the RWTH Aachen


Employment Opportunities (Calls from other Universities)

2000C3-Professorship (Clinical Psychology), University of Technology Chemnitz
2003C4-Professorship (Clincal and Biological Psychology), Catholic University Eichstätt/Ingolstadt


Author of more than 40 original papers (22 first author), 16 reviews, 6 edited books and 24 book chapters. Member of the Editorial Board of the "Zeitschrift für Neuropsychologie", "Fortschritte der Neuropsychologie", and the "Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation".