Contact
Prof. Dr. Niko Kohls
Teaching and research areas
- Integrative health promotion
- Medical psychology / health psychology
- Research on stress management / resilience / quality of life / well-being in a clinical / non-clinical context
Functions
At the university
- Collaboration in the research focus on health promotion
- Chairman of the Senate
Outside the university
- Board member of the Society for Consciousness Sciences and Consciousness Culture (GBB)
- Editorial Board Memberships:
- since 2018: Palgrave Communications, Health and Medical Humanities
- since 2015: Journal for the Study of Spirituality
- since 2015: Personality and Individual Differences Special Issue Guest Editor
- since 2013: Researching complementary medicine / Research in Complementary Medicine
- since 2012: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine
- since 2012: Psychology, Society, and Education
- since 2011: Spiritual Care – magazine for spirituality in the healthcare professions
- 2006 -2009: Spirituality & Health International
Courses
- Health journalism
- Stress management
- Medical therapy concepts
- Ability to reflect (Coburger Weg)
- Ethics of health promotion
Short vita
- since 2018: Full member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Salzburg
- since 09/2013: Professor of Health Sciences/Health Promotion (W2) at the Coburg University of Applied Sciences for life
- 01/2008 -12/2014: Head of the Generation Research Program of the Human Science Center of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and Generation Research GmbH; development and management of the working groups
- Psychophysiology of consciousness
- Age health/diversity management
- Nursing care research
- 11/2005 – 12/2007: Senior Research Fellow, The University of Northampton, United Kingdom; School of Social Sciences, Psychology Division
- 03/2004 – 10/2005: Postdoctoral researcher at the University Medical Center Freiburg, Institute of Environmental Medicine and Hospital Hygiene
- 06/2001 – 02/2004: Freelance work at Kollmann & Partner – Management und Medien GmbH; Wachtberg and Freiburg; statistical and methodological consulting for evaluation projects, Freiburg
- 03/2001 – 10/2002: Statistical and methodological consulting at the Department of Tumor Biology, Freiburg
- 10/1998 – 12/2000: Project manager, PMR Institute, management consultancy, Freiburg
- 12/1996 – 09/1998: Student assistant at the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Hygiene, Freiburg
- 04/1996 – 10/1996: Freelance work at Psycho_Logik in Freiburg
- 07/2012: Appointment as private lecturer at the Medical Faculty of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University
- 2010 – 2012: Habilitation in the field of medical psychology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
- 2001 – 2004: Doctorate in clinical psychology and health psychology at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg
- 1994 – 1998: Studied psychology at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg
- 1992 – 1994: Studied psychology at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
- 1984 – 1992: Kurt-Huber-Gymnasium Gräfelfing (Abitur: 7/92)
- 1980 – 1984: Gräfelfing elementary school
Memberships
- German Society for Psychology (DGPS), Health Psychology Section
- Society for Consciousness Sciences and Consciousness Culture (GBB)
- Society for Anomalistics (GFA)
Current projects
Title: Evaluation of the relaxation app “AOK Relax” in a university context
Project partner: AOK Bavaria; Health Promotion Department, contact person: Dr. Dennis John
Project period: 01.06.2016 – 31.03.2017
Project staff: Andreas Nagel, B.Sc.
