The Scientific Advisory Board consults FINDER independently and on an honorary basis on the state of research, programme selection, and training content. Members are appointed by the management board in personal capacity and meet at least once a year; further consultations take place on a project-by-project basis. The Board has no authority to issue directions and receives no remuneration.
People
Scientific Advisory Board.
Appointed in personal capacity. Meets at least once a year and is consulted on strategic programme decisions.
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Nadia Sosnowsky-Waschek, Dipl.-Psych.
Professor of Clinical and Health Psychology · Dean of Studies
SRH University of Applied Sciences Heidelberg
Research and teaching at the interface of clinical and health psychology. Publications on burnout and core self-evaluations among executives (Sosnowsky-Waschek, Hentrich & Zimber, 2016, 2018), on the relatives’ perspective in eating disorders (Sosnowsky-Waschek, Leopold & Giel, 2022), and on digital care for Long COVID (MiLoCoDaS-RCT, Sosnowsky-Waschek et al., 2023). Co-author of the prevention programme AGIL – Arbeit und Gesundheit im Lehrerberuf (Hillert et al., 2024).
- Qualification
- Prof. Dr. rer. nat.
- Focus
- Clinical and health psychology
- Faculty
- School of Psychology
- Teaching
- B.Sc. Psychology · Health and Clinical Psychology
Dr. med. Gregor Burkhart, MPH
Former Principal Scientific Analyst for Prevention
European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA, Lisbon; formerly EMCDDA)
From 1996 until 2025, Gregor Burkhart was responsible for prevention at the EMCDDA and its successor agency EUDA in Lisbon. Co-developer of the European Prevention Curriculum (EUPC), which builds on the Universal Prevention Curriculum derived from the UNODC International Standards on Drug Use Prevention (Burkhart, 2015; Burkhart & Henriques, 2020). Further work: environmental prevention (Burkhart, Tomczyk & Koning, 2022) and the theoretical model of Unplugged (Burkhart, Vadrucci & Vigna-Taglianti, 2016). Visiting lecturer at the Universidad de Granada. Retired since 2025 and active in the EUPC Expert Advisory Board.
- Institution
- EUDA Lisbon · 1996 to retirement
- Focus
- EUPC · EDPQS · environmental prevention
- Network
- Co-founder EUSPR
Prof. Dr. Günter Dörr
Education scientist
PH Weingarten · Landesinstitut für präventives Handeln, Saarland
Combines two career phases: academic teaching and research on teacher education and media pedagogy at the University of Education Weingarten, and state-institute practice in violence and crisis prevention at Saarland schools. Work on practice phases in early career teaching (Baer, Kocher, Wyss, Guldimann, Larcher & Dörr, 2011) and on multimedia learning environments (Dörr & Seel, 1994; Dörr, 1999) sits within empirical education research.
- Qualification
- Prof. Dr.
- Focus
- School violence and crisis prevention · teacher education · media pedagogy
- Career
- PH Weingarten (1992–2008) · LPH Saarland, Director (2009–2019)
Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Ansgar Rougemont-Bücking
Consultant in psychiatry and psychotherapy (FMH) · FMH specialist title in addiction (2017)
Privatdozent, University of Fribourg, Switzerland (habilitation 2020)
Research affiliation with the University of Fribourg. Publications on the diagnosis of anxiety disorders (Rougemont-Buecking, Rothen & Jeanprêtre, 2008), on motivational interviewing in patients with substance use disorders (Rougemont-Buecking, Carruzzo & Zimmermann, 2009), and on EMDR in the treatment of chronic trauma (Rougemont-Buecking, 2006).
- Qualification
- Dr. med. · habilitation Univ. Fribourg 2020
- Focus
- Addiction medicine · psychotraumatology · psychotherapy
- Institution
- Université de Fribourg (CH)
- Previously
- CHUV Lausanne, Service de médecine des addictions
Prof. Dr. phil. Samuel Tomczyk, Dipl.-Psych.
Director, Institute of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology
University Medicine Rostock
Research on school-based alcohol prevention (Thomasius, Stolle, Tomczyk et al., 2015, BMJ Open: “Klar bleiben” study protocol), stigma and help-seeking under mental distress (Tomczyk, Schomerus, Stolzenburg, Muehlan & Schmidt, 2020), and social-media-based life-skills programmes for adolescents (Zimmermann & Tomczyk, 2024). At the German Centre for Child and Adolescent Health (DZKJ) he coordinates the Patient, Parent and Public Involvement (PPPI) workstream.
- Qualification
- Prof. Dr. phil.
- Focus
- Digital prevention · adolescent mental health
- Previously
- Junior Prof. Digital Health and Prevention, Univ. Greifswald
- Network
- Board EUSPR · DZKJ-PPPI