Scientist: Klaus Lieb

Prof Klaus Lieb is Scientific Director of the Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research (LIR) and Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University Medical Center in Mainz, Germany. He studied medicine and philosophy at the Universities of Ulm, Tübingen and Los Angeles, became a medical doctor in 1992, worked at the universities of Ulm and Freiburg and became vice chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Freiburg, Germany, in 2001. Since 2007 he is head of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Mainz, Germany. Prof Lieb won several awards and published more than 200 original scientific papers, more than 70 reviews and letters, and more than 20 books and book chapters.