Brigitte Lueger-Schuster
I am an Austrian clinical psychologist and supervisor. Since 1990 I have worked in the Department of Clinical Psychology at the University of Vienna. As a result of the University Project "Hosting Bosnian Refugees" I have made contact with traumatised people. As a result I became more and more competent in the field of complex trauma after war and torture. I currently hold the position of scientific-strategic chief psychologist at the department of civil protection and crisis management for the City of Vienna on a voluntary basis.
I have edited and written books with topics on disaster, children and migration. I am involved in research on cognitive changes after trauma and memory-processes in the population born during world-war-II.
For the ESTSS I bring practical and scientific experiences as a clinical psychologist across a broad range of psychotraumatology. I will emphasise interdisciplinary work and ethical problems in trauma research. Further topics I am interested in are the gender perspective and networks in disaster-management across Europe.
I am experienced in working in national and international commissions, committees and boards, in a scientific context. I like to bring in the experience of a small country full of trauma-history due to Europe's past.