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🏆LUKS teaching prize awarded to Annika Overlander✨

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 💻

LUKS award in office shelf with books and non-alcoholic wine around

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. 🥂


🎤 Ulf-Dietrich Reips delivered opening keynote at CARMA 2026

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/


🎤 Editor panel @ APS conference 2026

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 🏆

✨Quality of Life Preis erhalten für PICTURE Projekt 🖼️

Der Quality of Life Preis der Lilly Stiftung (HRQoL Preis) zeichnet seit fast 30 Jahren Forschungsarbeiten aus, die zur Entwicklung von Messinstrumenten zur Erfassung der gesundheitsbezogenen Lebensqualität beitragen, sowie die Innovation von Therapien und Messinstrumenten zum Ziel haben. Unter anderem soll mit dem Preis solide theoretische Fundierung, methodologische Güte und Patient*innenfreundlichkeit gewürdigt werden.

Dieser Preis wurde im Mai 2026 offiziell verliehen an Gensinchen et al. für die PICTURE Projekt Studie (2025), bei der iScience Professor Ulf-Dietrich Reips als Biostatistiker und Methodenberater involviert war. Die Studie untersuchte die Effektivität einer durch Allgemeinmediziner durchgeführten Intervention bei Patient*innen mit Post-traumatischer Belastungsstörung (PTBS) in einer beobachterblinden, randomisierten Kontrollstudie. Hier die entsprechenden Meldungen:

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 Ausserdem wurde der Roemer Preis ebenfalls verliehen für diese Studie: https://www.lmu-klinikum.de/institut-allgemeinmedizin/aktuelles/news/roemer-preis-fur-psychosomatische-medizin-2026-fur-unsere-picture-studie/5ee08f9e74f61183
Wir gratulieren den Gewinnern herzlich und wissen diese Anerkennung wichtiger Fortschritte in klinisch-psychologischer Forschung sehr zu schätzen! 🍾


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/