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 🖼️

El Premio de Calidad de Vida de la Fundación Lilly (Premio HRQoL, solo en alemán) lleva casi 30 años reconociendo trabajos científicos que desarrollan herramientas para medir la calidad de vida relacionada con la salud o que buscan innovar en terapias y métodos de medición. Entre otros aspectos, el premio valora la fundamentación teórica, el rigor metodológico y la aplicación en la vida real para los pacientes.

Este premio, que se entregará oficialmente en mayo de 2026, ha sido concedido a Gensichen et al. por el estudio del proyecto PICTURE (2025), en el que participó Ulf-Dietrich Reips, de iscience. El estudio examinó la efectividad de una intervención liderada por médicos de atención primaria para pacientes con trastorno de estrés postraumático (TEPT) en un ensayo controlado aleatorizado con cegamiento del observador.
¡Felicitamos a los ganadores y celebramos este reconocimiento a importantes avances en el campo de la psicología clínica! 🍾

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/