Stephanie Homan is a postdoctoral researcher and clinical psychologist at the Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich and the University of Zurich. She works with patients after suicide attempts and investigates suicide prevention and e-mental health, focusing on real-time monitoring of suicidal ideation, risk and protective factors, as well as digital interventions. Stephanie is committed to conducting her research according to open science principles, emphasizing reproducible research, rigorous statistical methods, and transparent reporting.
Stephanie has managed the Swiss National Science Foundation project SIMON – Suicide Ideation Monitoring, and is currently the senior postdoctoral fellow in MULTICAST – A MULTIdisCiplinary Approach to predict and treat SuicidaliTy, which aims to identify novel predictors of suicidal ideation, explore underlying mechanisms, and develop smartphone-based treatment modules.
Stephanie has over five years of teaching experience at the Psychological Institute and the Medical Faculty of the University of Zurich, as well as at other universities. She teaches clinical and methodological courses, helps students understand clinical processes, contextualize risk and protective factors, and apply digital innovations in care. She also supervises Bachelor’s and Master’s theses, supporting students’ development and fostering research interest with a focus on integrating translational perspectives and digital tools.
Stephanie is also affiliated the Healthy Longevity Centre.
Selected Publications
Munkholm, K., Winkelbeiner, S., & Homan, P. (2019, September 25). Individual response to antidepressants for depression in adults – a simulation study and meta-analysis. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/m4aqc
Marzouk, T.*, Winkelbeiner, S.*, Azizi, H., Malhotra, A. K. & Homan, P. (2019) The effects of rTMS on positive symptoms: A systematic review. Neuropsychobiology, 1-13.
Grieder, M., Morishima, Y., Winkelbeiner, S., Mueller, S. M., Feher, K., Mueller, S. V., & Dierks, T. (2019, June 17). Bi-temporal anodal tDCS during slow-wave sleep boosts episodic memory consolidation in high performers. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/jb9f4
Winkelbeiner, S., Leucht, S., Kane, J.M., Homan, P. (2019) Evaluation of Differences in Individual Treatment Response in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: A Meta-analysis. JAMA Psychiatry. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2019.1530
Kunzelmann, K., Grieder, M., van Swam, C., Homan, P., Winkelbeiner, S., Hubl, D., & Dierks, T. (2019). Am I hallucinating or is my fusiform cortex activated? Functional activation differences in schizophrenia patients with and without hallucinations. The European Journal of Psychiatry, 33(1), 1-7.
Winkelbeiner, S., Cavelti, M., Federspiel, A., Kunzelmann, K., Dierks, T., Strik, W., ... & Homan, P. (2018). Decreased blood flow in the right insula and middle temporal gyrus predicts negative formal thought disorder in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 201, 432.
Cavelti, M.*, Winkelbeiner, S.*, Federspiel, A., Walther, S., Stegmayer, K., Giezendanner, S., ... & Homan, P. (2018). Formal thought disorder is related to aberrations in language-related white matter tracts in patients with schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 279, 40-50.
Kornfeld, S., Studer, M., Winkelbeiner, S., Regényi, M., Boltshauser, E., & Steinlin, M. (2017). Quality of life after paediatric ischaemic stroke. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 59(1), 45-51.
Winkelbeiner, S., Suker, S., Bachofner, H., Eisenhardt, S., Steinau, S., Walther, S., ..., & Homan, P. (2017). Targeting Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms With rTMS and Perfusion Imaging. American Journal of Psychiatry, 175(1), 81-83.