Rene Hurlemann, MD, PhD, MBA

Professor of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Head of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Head of the Neuromodulation of Emotion (NEMO) Lab
Associate Dean for Strategic Development
Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Karl Jaspers Clinic

Rene Hurlemann is Professor of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy and Head of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Oldenburg, Germany. The department is part of the Karl Jaspers Clinic in Wehnen near Oldenburg, the second largest maximum-care psychiatric hospital in Lower Saxony. Rene Hurlemann serves the Karl Jaspers Clinic as Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and the School of Medicine and Life Sciences of the University of Oldenburg as Associate Dean for Strategic Development. Rene Hurlemann holds a PhD from Maastricht University, an MD from the University of Bonn and an MBA from Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. As a clinical scientist, his focus is on the further development of personalized medicine, which plays a key role in overcoming therapy resistance. He is a member of several editorial boards of scientific journals, including Personalized Medicine in Psychiatry (Elsevier), Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience (SCAN) (Oxford Academic) and Journal of Psychiatric Research (Elsevier). Rene Hurlemann leads an interdisciplinary research team that investigates the social (e.g. loneliness) and environmental (e.g. climate change) determinants of mental health and translates the findings into technologically innovative clinical treatments, including non-invasive neuromodulation with accelerated theta burst stimulation (TBS) and AI-based digital aftercare. His research is funded by various sources, including the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Policy (BMWK). Rene Hurlemann is a research associate at the Laureate Institute for Brain Research (LIBR), Tulsa (OK, USA), and co-director of the Summer School on Affective Neuroscience, coordinated by Maastricht University. He is a member of more than ten professional societies, including the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) and the Society of Biological Psychiatry (SoBP). He is also an international ad hoc referee for numerous journals and funding organizations as well as academic appointment and award committees in the fields of psychiatry and neuroscience.

Rene Hurlemann, MD, PhD, MBA

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