Anke Ehlers

Ehlers studied psychology at the University of Kiel and the University of Tübingen, earning a diploma from Tübingen in 1983. She finished her Ph.D. from the same institution in 1985, and earned a habilitation from the University of Marburg in 1990.^[6]

While finishing her Ph.D., Ehlers worked at Stanford University from 1984 to 1985 as assistant director of the Laboratory for Clinical Psychopharmacology and Psychophysiology.^{[citation needed]}

After an assistant professorship at the University of Marburg, she became a full professor at the University of Göttingen in 1991.^{[citation needed]}

Ehlers moved to Oxford as Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow in 1993. While there, in 1999, she lead authored the paper A cognitive model of posttraumatic stress disorder.^[7]

She moved to King's College London in 2000, where she led a group that developed a therapy based on her and Clark's model.^[8] She returned to Oxford as Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Experimental Psychopathology in 2012; she retains a visiting position at King's College London.^[6]

In 2004, Ehlers was elected a Fellow of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.^[9] She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2010^[10] and is also a member of the Academia Europaea.^[6] In 2018 she was appointed Senior Investigator at the UK's National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).^[11]

Ehlers was born in Kiel, West Germany. She is married to her colleague David M. Clark.^[12]