Research Associate
M.Sc. Tobias Lohaus – tobias.lohaus@rub.de
...works as a research associate at the Neuropsychological Therapy Center of the Ruhr University Bochum. He is funded by the German Social Accident Insurance (Deutsche Gesetzliche Unfallversicherung) as part of an online therapy project for traumatic brain injury patients (www.sokobo.de). Since ASMR videos could in principle also be used in online therapies, he is interested in the scientific evaluation of the ASMR phenomenon. It seems especially important to him to better understand and assess the therapeutic potential of ASMR.
Research Student
B.Sc. Canan Dutschke – canan.dutschke@rub.de
...is a student in the master's program in psychology with a focus on clinical psychology at the Ruhr University Bochum. She is interested in a variety of psychological intervention opportunities and considers ASMR to have great future potential in this regard. As a research student, she assists the ASMR research conducted at the Ruhr University Bochum, among other things, in maintaining contact with ASMR-YouTubers as well as in the design of ASMR videos created by the research team.
Supervisor
Prof. Dr. Patrizia Thoma – patrizia.thoma@rub.de
...is a licensed psychological psychotherapist and clinical neuropsychologist (PTK). Together with Prof. Boris Suchan she heads the Neuropsychological Therapy Center (NTC) of the Ruhr University Bochum. As a neuroscientist at the Faculty of Psychology, Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Ruhr University, she focuses on research on social cognition - especially in people with a neurological disease. As there are also first indications that ASMR is related to social cognition, she recently started to be interested in the scientific evaluation of the ASMR phenomenon.
Associated persons
Prof. Dr. Silja Bellingrath (collaboration on two scientific ASMR articles)
B.Sc. Sarah Schreckenberg (collaboration on one scientific ASMR article)
B.Sc. Sara Yüksekdag (collaboration on one scientific ASMR article)
B.Sc. Janika Stein (Master thesis on the topic of ASMR)
B.Sc. Pia Neumann (Master thesis on the topic of ASMR)
B.Sc. Lena Billstein (maintaining contact with ASMR-YouTubers)
B.Sc. Lea Marie Beermann (ASMR-related research)
B.Sc. Ina Deckenhoff (ASMR-related research)