• Licensed psychological psychotherapist (FSP)
• Licensed psychiatrist & psychotherapist (Canton Zurich)
• License Psychotherapeutic Medicine (Germany)
• Psychosomatic und Psychosocial Medicine certificate (APPM, Switzerland)
• Certificate Specialized Psychotraumatology (DeGPT)
• Certified Supervisor

• Psychological trauma and PTSD
• Complicated grief (maladaptive bereavement) and adjustment disorders
• Clinical gerontopsychology
• Epidemiology
• Intervention research
• Cultural Clinical Psychology

Andreas Maercker, PhD, MD, completed his medical and psychological education in Halle/Saale and Berlin. He received his MD at Humboldt University and his PhD at Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. After academic positions in Dresden and Trier, he was chair and full professor of Psychopathology and Clinical Intervention at the University of Zurich from 2005 to 2025 and since 2025 directs from a senior position his work group. He was co-director of the Institute’s outpatient clinic services. Professor Maercker is or has been principal and co-investigator in numerous national and international studies in traumatic stress research, cultural clinical psychology, digital mental health and clinical geropsychology. He has published more than 300 peer review articles. From 2011-2018 he chaired a work group at WHO for revising the International Classification of Diseases in the area of trauma- and stress-related disorders. From 2017-2024 he chaired the Historical Commission of the German Psychological Society on Stasi psychology in the former East Germany. He authored or edited 14 scientific or therapeutic books. Keywords characterizing the expertise: PTSD, stress-response syndromes, lifespan developmental psychopathology, treatment, e-mental health. In 2017, he was awarded the highest order in Germany, the Federal Cross of Merit, as well as the Wolter de Loos Award for Distinguished Contribution to Psychotraumatology in Europe from the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies for his scientific work. In 2025 he was elected as member of the Academia Europaea.

Curriculum Vitae

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• Chair, Working group on stress-related disorders in preparation of ICD-11 at WHO, Geneva (2011-2019)
• Chair, Historical Commission of the German Psychological Society on “Instrumentalization of psychology in the GDR”
• Co-Chair, Advisory Board, Federal Multisite Project on Long-Term Health Consequences of Political Persecution in the GDR
• Member, Advisory Board, Foundation Survival (formerly: Treatment Centre for Trauma Victims), Berlin
• Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Psychotrauma Center, German Armed Forces
• Member, Board of Center of Competence for Gerontology, University of Zurich (2006-2012)
• Member, Steering Committee, M.A.S. Applied History, University of Zurich (2016-2021)
• Member, Editorial Board, journal International Perspectives in Psychology
• Member, Editorial Board, journal Clinical Psychology in Europe
• Member, Patronage, C. G. Jung Institute Zurich

Research Gate Profile: ResearchGate Andreas Maercker
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Maercker, A., Ben-Ezra, M., Esparza, O. A., & Augsburger, M. (2019). Fatalism as a traditional cultural belief potentially relevant to trauma sequelae: Measurement equivalence, extent and associations in six countries. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 10(1), 1657371.
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Killikelly, C., & Maercker, A. (2018). Prolonged grief disorder for ICD-11: the primacy of clinical utility and international applicability. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 8(6), 1476441.
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Maercker, A., & Lorenz, L. (2018). Adjustment disorder diagnosis: Improving clinical utility. The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 19, S3-S13.
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Maercker, A., & Guski-Leinwand, S. (2018). Psychologists’ involvement in repressive “Stasi” secret police activities in former East Germany. International Perspectives in Psychology, 7(2), 107-119.
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Maercker, A., & Horn, A. (2013). A socio-interpersonal perspective of PTSD: The case for environments and interpersonal processes. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy. doi: 10.1002/cpp.1805
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Maercker, A. (2026). Historical Trauma: Psychological Processes, Contexts, and Healing. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Reed, G., Ritchie, P. & Maercker A. (eds) (2024). A Psychological Approach to Diagnosis: Using the ICD-11 as a framework. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Maercker, A. & Gieseke, J. (Hrsg.) (2021). Psychologie als Instrument der SED-Diktatur. Göttingen: Hogrefe.

Maercker, A. (Hrsg.). (2019). Traumafolgestörungen (5. Aufl.). Berlin: Springer; engl. Ausgabe Trauma Sequelae (2021), London: SpringerNature

Link to private Website (in German): http://www.maercker-website.ch/