The LUKS prize is an award for exemplary teachers, nominated and elected by students in each department at University of Konstanz. For several years in a row, this award has been given to capable professors and long-time teachers.

This year, the award went to Annika Tave Overlander from the iscience group! 🥳 Students appreciate her creating an open atmosphere and giving space to any (stupid) question. Some even mentioned having fun while learning to code in their psychology studies 💻

We are very happy that she got this award! Fun Fact: The last member of the iscience group to receive this award was Dr. Tim Kuhlmann in 2018. 🥂

We’re excited to share that Prof. Ulf-Dietrich Reips has been invited to deliver the opening keynote entitled “AI hires humans and humans ask AI: Challenges in methods of online data collection” at the International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics (CARMA 2026)!

The conference took place July 1–3, 2026 in Valencia, Spain, and brings together researchers working on AI, big data, and computational methods in the social sciences.

CARMA is an international venue for cutting-edge work on topics like large language models 🤖, data science 📊, and digital transformation 🌐—making it a great fit for methodological research coming out of Konstanz.

Find more info about the conference here: https://carmaconf.org/

At the Association for Psychological Science‘s (APS) annual meeting Prof. Ulf-Dietrich Reips, who is the incoming Editor-in-Chief of Psychological Science in the Public Interest (PSPI), engaged in discussions about Open Science and joined an invited panel that provided advice to graduate students and researchers on publishing with APS journals and on publishing in general.

In line with APS’ intention of being a global society for psychological science the meeting took place May 27–30, 2026, in Barcelona, Spain – first time ever as the only annual meeting fully outside North America.

✨Quality of Life Prize awarded to PICTURE project 🖼️

The Quality of Life prize by the Lilly foundation (HRQoL Preis, only in German) has been awarding scientific works that develop tools for capturing health related quality of life or strive to innovate therapies and measurements for almost 30 years. Among others, the prize values theoretical foundation, methodological rigor and real life application for patients.

This prize was awarded officially in May 2026 by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychosomatische Medizin (DGPM) to Gensinchen et al. for the PICTURE project study (2025), which iscience’s own Ulf-Dietrich Reips was involved in as methods expert and biostatistician. The study examined the effectiveness of a general practitioner-led intervention for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) patients in an observer-blind randomized control trial.
We congratulate the winners and appreciate this recognition of important advances in the field of clinical psychology! 🍾 Here are the respective announcements (in German only):

30 Jahre Quality of Life Preis: Drei Jahrzehnte für das, was Patient:innen wirklich bewegt

https://www.lmu-klinikum.de/institut-allgemeinmedizin/aktuelles/news/picture-studie-mit-dem-quality-of-life-preis-der-lilly-deutschland-stiftung-ausgezeichnet/c68936ffaafd0a32 A second prize was awarded for the study, the Roemer Preis: https://www.lmu-klinikum.de/institut-allgemeinmedizin/aktuelles/news/roemer-preis-fur-psychosomatische-medizin-2026-fur-unsere-picture-studie/5ee08f9e74f61183

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Gensichen, J., Schmidt, K. F. R., Sanftenberg, L., Kosilek, R. P., Friemel, C. M., Beutel, A., Dohmann, J., Heintze, C., Prescott, H. C., Reips, U.-D., Schauer, M., Lindemann, D., Brettschneider, C., Dreischulte, T., Zwißler, B., & Elbert, T. (2025). Effects of a general practitioner-led brief narrative exposure intervention on symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder after intensive care (PICTURE): multicentre, observer blind, randomised controlled trial. BMJ, 389, e082092. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2024-082092

For a quick english overview of the article, please see our news post from when it was published: https://iscience.uni-konstanz.de/2025/05/12/picture-this-new-article-in-the-bmj/