Heiner Ellgring, Professor Dr.rer.nat., Dipl.Psych.
Born 19. Oct. 1942

Elementary school in Brünen b. Wesel. High school in Wesel and high school Sedanstr. Wuppertal-Barmen.
University education in Psychology at Philipps-University Marburg/Lahn and University of Hamburg. Diploma Degree (1968) and Doctorate Degree (1975) in Psychology from the University of Marburg. Habilitation in Psychology (1984) at Justus-Liebig-University Giessen.
Research Officer and Head of the Research Group on Social Psychology at the Max-Planck-Institute for Psychiatry, Munich. Visiting Professor in Social Psychology at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen. Visiting scientist at the Human Interaction Laboratory, University of California at San Francisco. Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London.
Professor for Clinical Psychology at the Institute for Psychology, Free University Berlin. Accreditation in Psychotherapy.
1991 – 2008: Professor for Psychology with special reference to Psychological Interventions at the Institute for Psychology, Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-University of Wuerzburg.

Major Research Interests:
- Clinical applications of emotion theories
- Nonverbal communication in psychiatric patients;
- Emotional disorders and facial expression of emotions
- Video applications for systematic observation and clinical use.
- Psychological conditions in Parkinson Disease;
- Cognitive-behavioral interventions, specifically in Parkinson Disease and addictions.