Deutsch Intern
Department of Psychology I – Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy

M. Sc. Maxi Stiller

Julius-Maximilians-Universität
Department of Psychology I
Marcusstr. 9-11
97070 Würzburg

Room: 007

Phone: +49 931 31- 83124
E-Mail: maxi.stiller@uni-wuerzburg.de

ORCID: 0009-0007-7148-8639
Google Scholar: https://tinyurl.com/maxicstiller

 

since 04/2026

PhD student at the Department of Psychology I in the Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy working group of Prof. Dr. Katja Bertsch, JMU Würzburg

10/2025-03/2026

Research Assistant at the Chair of Clinical Psychology and Behavioural Neuroscience in the SFB/TRR393 of Prof. Dr. Philipp Kanske, TU Dresden

09/2024-06/2025

Visiting Student Researcher at the Stanford Psychophysiology Laboratory of Prof. James J. Gross, Stanford University (CA)

11/2022-09/2024

Research Assistant at the Chair of Clinical Psychology and Behavioural Neuroscience at the Interpersonal Dynamics in Early Affective Disorders Laboratory of Dr. Katharina Förster, TU Dresden

10/2022-09/2025

M.Sc. Psychology with Specialisation in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, TU Dresden

04/2021-09/2022

Research Assistant at the Section of Systems Neuroscience in the SFB/TRR265 of Prof. Dr. Michael Smolka, TU Dresden

08/2020-03/2021

Research Assistant at the Chair of Lifespan Developmental Neuroscience of Prof. Shu-Chen Li, TU Dresden

10/2019-01/2023

B.Sc. Psychology with Specialisation in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, TU Dresden

  • Musicians’ Medicine
  • Emotion processing and emotion regulation 
  • Formation and revision of self-beliefs 
  • Clinical affective neuroscience (structural and functional imaging)
  • Affective disorders and alexithymia

Stiller, M. C., Gross, J. J., Förster, K., Heekerens, J. B., Sikka, P., & Preece, D. A. (2026). Understanding alexithymia: the role of experiential avoidance. Cognition and Emotion, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2026.2614307