Harald Walach Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology

Professor Harald Walach is a researcher at the interface between medicine, psychology and consciousness studies. His research interest is in methodology and evaluation of complementary medicine, the impact of consciousness on health, and a scientific approach to consciousness and spirituality. He is editor of the Journal “Complementary Medicine Research”, associate editor of the journal “Mindfulness” and editor of the Springer book series “Neuroscience, Consciousness, Spirituality”.

After a career building up a research group in complementary medicine at the University Hospital in Freiburg, Germany, he held a research professorship with the University of Northampton, UK from 2005-2009 where he directed the MSc Program of Transpersonal Psychology and Consciousness Studies

Currently he is affiliated as a professor with Poznan Medical University in Poznan, Poland, where he teaches mindfulness to the international medical students, and as a visiting professor with the University Witten-Herdecke’s psychology department in Germany, where he teaches philosophical foundations of psychology to psychology undergraduates. He is founding director of the Change Health Science Institute in Berlin. Dr. Walach holds a double Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, and History and Theory of Science.