Research interests

Prof. Zietlow's research focuses on how parental mental disorders, early relationship and interaction experiences, psychobiological correlates, and family environmental factors interact to influence children´s development (particularly socio- emotional as well as mental health trajectories). In this context, she is particularly interested in depression, anxiety and stress related disorders, behavioral patterns (parent-child interaction, couple interaction, developmental paradigms), neuroendocrine correlates (e.g., cortisol and oxytocin), and peripheral physiological markers (e.g., HRV). She uses multi-modal assessment through questionnaires and interview data, ecological momentary assessment, a variety of social interaction paradigms, developmental tasks as well as imaging (fMRI) techniques and more recently genetic and epigenetic analyses as well.

Career

Since 10/2022	Professor of the Chair of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
03/2022 - 09/2022	Professor of the Chair of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and Psychotherapy, Universität Greifswald. Germany
04/2020 - 02/2022	Assistant Professor for Clinical Psychology at the University of Mannheim, Germany
10/2019 - 03/2020	Deputy Chairperson in the winter semester 2019/20 for Medical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Institute for Medical Psychology at the University Hospital Heidelberg, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany (stood in for Prof. Dr. Beate Ditzen)
03/2019 - 09/2019	Parental leave
2017 - 2020	Research Group Leader “Parent-Child Studies” (ElKi) at the Center for Psychosocial Medicine, Clinic for General Psychiatry, University Hospital Heidelberg, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany
2011 - 2020	Research Assistant, Department of General Psychiatry and Institute for Medical Psychology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany