Simone Kühn

Direktorin des Forschungsbereiches Umweltneurowissenschaften

Kontakt:
Susanne Kassung, Daniela Petrosino
E-Mail: sekkuehn@mpib-berlin.mpg.de
Telefon: +49 30 82406-261/262

Mitgliedschaften und Ämter

Mitglied, Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina
Mitglied, DFG-Netzwerk WAS (Wirkungsforschung in Architektur und Städtebau)
Mitglied, Fachkollegium Psychologie, DFG
Fellow, Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung

Akademischer Steckbrief:

Aufnahme in die Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, 2005
Dipl. psych., Universität Potsdam, 2006
Dr. rer. nat., Universität Leipzig, 2009
Habilitation in Psychologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2012
Heisenberg Professur, Universitätsklinik Hamburg-Eppendorf (seit 2016)
Leiterin, Lise‐Meitner‐Gruppe Umweltneurowissenschaften, Max‐Planck‐Institut für Bildungsforschung, Berlin, 2019–2024

Forschungsinteressen:

Umweltpsychologie
Umweltneurowissenschaften
Plastizität des Verhaltens und des Gehirns

Ausgewählte Literatur:

Kühn, S. (Ed.). (2024). Environmental neuroscience. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64699-7

Kühn, S., & Gallinat, J. (2024). Environmental neuroscience unravels the pathway from the physical environment to mental health. Nature Mental Health, 2, 263–269. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44220- 023-00137-6

Pohlmann, K., Tawil, N., Brick, T. R. & Kühn, S. (2024). When houses wear faces: Reverse correlation applied to architectural design. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 98, 102401. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102401

Doell, K. C., Berman, M. G., Bratman, G. N., Knutson, B. Kühn, S., Lamm, C., Pahl, S. et al. (2023). Leveraging neuroscience for climate change research. Nature Climate Change, 13 (1288–1297). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01857-4

Schiebel, T., Gallinat, J. & Kühn, S. (2022). Testing the Biophilia theory: Automatic approach tendencies towards nature. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 79, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2021.101725

Stobbe, E., Sundermann, J., Ascone, L. & Kühn, S. (2022). Birdsongs alleviate anxiety and paranoia in healthy participants. Scientific Reports, 12, 16414. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-20841-0

Sudimac, S., Sale, V. & Kühn, S. (2022). How nature nurtures: Amygdala activity decreases as the result of a one-hour walk in nature. Molecular Psychiatry, 27, 4446–4452. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-022-01720-6

Mascherek, A., Weber, S., Riebandt, K., Cassanello, C., Leicht, G., Brick, T., … Kühn, S. (2022). On the relation between a green and bright window view and length of hospital stay in affective disorders. European Psychiatry, 65(1), e21. https://doi:10.1192/j.eurpsy.2022.9

Mostajeran, F., Krzikawski, J., Steinicke, F. & Kühn, S. (2021). Effects of exposure to immersive videos and photo slideshows of forest and urban environments. Scientific Reports, 11, 3994. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-83277-y

Ascone, L., Kling, C., Wieczorek, J., Koch, C., & Kühn, S. (2021). A longitudinal, randomized experimental pilot study to investigate the effects of airborne infrasound on human mental health, cognition, and brain structure. Scientific Reports, 11, Article 3190. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-82203-6

Drewelies, J., Eibich, P., Düzel, S., Kühn, S., Krekel, C., Goebel, J., Kolbe, J., Demuth, I., Lindenberger, U., Wagner, G. G., & Gerstorf, D. (2021). Location, location, location: The role of objective neighborhood characteristics for perceptions of control. Gerontology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1159/000515634

Kühn, S., Butler, O., Willmund, G., Wesemann, U., Zimmermann, P., & Gallinat, J. (2021). The brain at war: Effects of stress on brain structure in soldiers deployed to a war zone. Translational Psychiatry, 11, Article 247. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-021-01356-0

Kühn, S., Garcia Forlim, C., Lender, A., Wirtz, J., & Gallinat, J. (2021). Brain functional connectivity differs when viewing pictures from natural and built environments using fMRI resting state analysis. Scientific Reports, 11, Article 4110. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-83246-5

Kühn, S., Banaschewski, T., Bokde, A. L. W., Büchel, C., Quinlan, E. B., Desrivières, S., Flor, H., Grigits, A., Garavan, H., Gowland, P., Heinz, A., Ittermann, B., Martinot, J.-L., Paillère Martinot, M. L., Nees, F., Papadopoulos Orfanos, D., Paus, T., Poustka, L., Millenet, S., Fröhner, J. H., Smolka, M. N., Walter, H., Whelan, R., Schumann, G., Meyer-Lindenberg, A., & Gallinat, J. (2020). Brain structure and habitat: Do the brains of our children tell us where they have been brought up? NeuroImage, 222, Article 117225. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117225

Stahn, A. C., Gunga, H.-C., Kohlberg, E., Gallinat, J., Dinges, D. F., & Kühn, S. (2019). Brain changes in response to long-duration Antarctic expeditions. The New England Journal of Medicine, 381(23), 2273–2275. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMc1904905