Hannah Ihme
Hannah Ihme is deeply interested in how brain and body adapt following traumatic experiences. Driven by this interest, she completed her Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone (INT), Aix-Marseille Université, France, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. R. Belzeaux and Dr. C. Deruelle. Her doctoral research focused on how attachment profiles influence the relationship between childhood trauma and suicidal ideation and behaviors.
Following her Ph.D., she worked as a postdoctoral researcher from February 2024 to September 2025 in Prof. Lars White’s group at the University of Bremen and shortly in Prof. Nina Heinrichs’ group at Bielefeld University, where she focused on child maltreatment and well-being. In August 2025, she joined the third-party funded TRAUMA-FIT project at Bielefeld University, led by Prof. Dr. Sarah Wilker, and subsequently relocated to University Ulm with the team.
Since September 2024, she has also been training as a psychological psychotherapist with a focus on depth psychology (TP) at the Psychoanalytic Institute Bremen e.V., specializing in work with adults.
Beyond her research, she is committed to structural equality and volunteered as a departmental gender equality spokesperson at the Institute de Neuroscience de la Timone and at the University Bremen.
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Research Interests
- Effects of trauma exposure over the lifespan
- Role of close caregivers, epistemic trust/ mentalizing and attachment
- Causes of suicidality
Projects
TRAUMA-FIT
Awards
- 2025 – YERUN Research Mobility Award (2000€)
- 2023 – Prize for best paper (basic science) - Centre National de Ressources et de Résilience (Cn2R) für Ihme et al., 2022 (2000€)
Travel Grants & Summerschools
- 2025 – European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (ESCAP) Summerschool “Trauma and the brain”
- 2024 - DAAD Travel Grant for Attendance of the 11th International Attachment Conference Rouen (750€)
- 2024 – Scholarship for attendance 35th Boston Trauma Conference (100€)
- 2022 – Travel Grant - Society of Emotional & Attachment Studies (SEAS) for 10th International Attachment Conference Lisbon (500€)
- 2019 – Travel Grant - International Behavioral Neuroscience Society (IBNS) (1000$)