Oliver Wolf

After obtaining his PhD in Psychology at Trier University Oliver spent 2.5 years in New York City working with Bruce McEwen at Rockefeller University and Antonio Convit and Mony de Leon at the New York University School of Medicine. Afterwards he returned to Germany (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) as leader of an Emmy-Noether Young Investigator Group funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Next, he was awarded a DFG Heisenberg Scholarship before receiving the first offer for a full professorship at Bielefeld University in 2005. Since 2007 he is a full professor ofCognitive Psychology at Ruhr University Bochum. In 2019 he became a member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina). He has published over 400 scientific journal articles which have been cited more than 47.000 times (H-Index in Google Scholars is 118).