Steffen Landgraf

Steffen Landgraf ( born August 26, 1980 in Berlin ) is a former German long jumper / decathlete and active researchers in the field of forensic psychiatry and cognitive psychology.

Athletics

Steffen Landgraf started from 1998 to 2004 for the LG Nike Berlin. His greatest successes were the German Champion title at the Indoor Championships 2001 in Dortmund with the 4x200m relay team (along with Ronny Ostwald, Ralf Riester and Kofi Amoah Prah ), the bronze medal with the 4x400m relay team also in Dortmund in 2001, and the German decathlon team Champion title at the German -around championships in 2004 Vaterstetten (along with the later Heptathlon world indoor champion in 2006 in Moscow André Niklaus and Marian Geisler ).

On 4 June 2001, he reached his long jump personal best of 7.84 meters in Wesel and thus qualified for the U23 European Championships in Amsterdam in 2001, where he finished in 15th place in the long jump. He was in the same year German champion with the 4x100m relay (together with Tobias Samberg, Kai Doskoszynski and Ralf Riester ) and German Vice Champion in the long jump at the German U-23 Championships in Schweinfurt. Other achievements include the German championship with the 4x100m relay at the German Youth Championships in Lüdenscheid 1997 Duisburg in 1999, and the bronze medal in the long jump also in 1999 in Duisburg. At the German Youth Championships in Berlin in 1998, he was fourth ( U20) and 1997 in Lüdenscheid eight ( U18) in the long jump.

Steffen Landgraf was coached by Klaus Beer, Olympic silver medalist in the long jump in 1968 in Mexico City, and Rainer Pottel, Olympian in the decathlon in 1980 in Moscow.

From 2001 to 2004 Steffen Landgraf started for the athletics team at the University of Minnesota, with which he 2003, the " Big Ten Outdoor Championships " won. His coach in Minnesota were Phil Lundin and Mario Sategna.

2004 ended Steffen Landgraf his active career as an athlete and now works as a sports volunteer group leader for the LG Telis financial Regensburg.

Steffen Landgraf is the son of the first marriage of Monika Zehrt, the German Athletics double Olympic champion in 1972 in Munich.

Bests

• Long Jump: 784cm ( Wesel, Germany, June 4, 2001)
• Long Jump (Hall ): 7.43 m (Champaign, Illinois, USA, March 1, 2003 )
• 400 m: 48.50 s ( Berlin, Germany, July 2, 2000)
• Decathlon: 6555 Points ( College Station, Texas, USA, 18-19 March 2004. )
• Heptathlon (Hall ): 5103 points ( Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, 28-29 February 2004. )

Science

Steffen Landgraf studied from 2001 to 2004 Psychology and Spanish at the University of Minnesota, USA. He got there a Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude. From 2004 to 2007 he studied psychology in graduate studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

In 2010 he received his PhD with binational care at the Sorbonne University in Paris and the Humboldt University of Berlin under the direction of Marie- Odile Krebs and Elke van der Meer also summa cum laude. His PhD topic was " Cognitive markers in early psychosis: reference frames in spatial cognition and visual scanning - strategies as stage markers in schizophrenia " ( Cognitive indicators in early psychosis: reference systems in spatial perception and visual scanning strategies as stage indicators in schizophrenia ).

Three years later, at age 33, he qualified as a professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin on " The evolution of problems lies within the acting individual" ( is the development of problems in the acting individual ). He is the author of several English-language scientific articles on topics of schizophrenia, creativity, and intelligence. To develop his theory on the relationship between visual skills and the risk psychotic symptoms, he published in 2013 in the open-access journal Frontiers in Psychology with Michael Osterheider. The model of the so-called " Protection Against Schizophrenia " attracted attention because it postulates, among other things, that birth blindness protects against the development of schizophrenia.

Steffen Landgraf already received several awards for his scientific work. Among others, the prestigious Young Scientist Awards of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry in Paris in 2009 and the International Symposium on Schizophrenia Bern 2010. Since 2012 Steffen Landgraf is as a research associate in the Department of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Regensburg in District Hospital Regensburg operates.

Selected Publications

• Landgraf, S.; Osterheider ( 2013). "To see or not to see: that is the question. 'The' Protection Against Schizophrenia - " model: evidence from congenital blindness and visual- cognitive aberrations. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 352
• Landgraf, S. et al. (2012 ). Cognitive Identity in Schizophrenia. Vision, Space, and Body Perception from prodrome to syndrome. Current Psychiatry Reviews, 8, 119-139.
• Landgraf, S. et al. ( 2011). Inflexible information acquisition strategies mediate visuo -spatial reasoning in stabilized schizophrenia patients. The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 12 ( 8), 608-619.
• Landgraf, S. et al. ( 2011). Visuo -spatial cognition in schizophrenia: Confirmation of a preference for local information processing. Schizophrenia Research, 127 (1-3), 163-170.
• Landgraf, S. et al. (2010). Real world referencing and schizophrenia: are we experiencing the same reality? Neuropsychologia, 48 (10 ), 2922-2930.
• Landgraf, S. et al. (2008). Memory -guided saccade abnormalities in schizophrenic patients and Their full biological siblings. Psychological Medicine, 38 (6 ), 861-870.