Das Klinikum

Dr. Sebastian Wolf

Dr. Sebastian Wolf

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

Ambulante Versorgungsforschung (Post-Covid; Psychische Störungen) | Komplexe (transdiagnostische) Interventionen | Wirkmechanismen des Effekts sportlicher Aktivität auf Psychische Gesundheit | lebensstilbezogene Präventionsforschung

Kontakt

Telefonnummer: 07071 29-87787

E-Mail-Adresse: sebastian.wolf@med.uni-tuebingen.de

Klinik / Institut / Zentrum

  • seit 09/2025Forschungsprojektleitung | Universitätsklinikum Tübingen | Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
  • 09/2020-06/2024Nachwuchsgruppenleiter | Institut für Sportwissenschaft | Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
  • 11/2016-08/2020Post-Doc | Abteilung für Klinische Psychologie | Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
  • 04/2014-09/2015Post-Doc | Abteilung für Klinische Psychologie | Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
  • 10/2011-12/2012Weiterbildung zum Sportpsychologen (ASP)
  • 08/2010-09/2013Wissenschaftlicher Angstellter (PhD) | Institut für Medizinische Psychologie | Universitätsklinikum Tübingen | Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
  • 06/2009-03/2016Approbation zum Psychologischen Psychotherapeut (VT) | Fachkunde für Erwachsene, Kinder und Jugendliche, Gruppentherapieverfahren
  • 10/2004-09/2008Diplom-Psychologie Studium | LMU München
  • 2016 Posterpreis der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Sportpsychologie (ASP) bei 48. Jahrestagung in Münster. Titel: "EEG-correlates of peak performance and flow-experience in table tennisplayers"
  • 2014 Forschungsstipendium an der Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro(UFRJ), im Rahmen des Bilateralen Wissenschaftler Austausch desDeutschen Akademischen Austauschdienstes (DAAD) zum Aufbau einerbilateralen Kooperation
  • Seiffer, B., Frei, A. K., Welkerling, J., Studnitz, T., Zeibig, J., Herzog, E., Takano, K., Nakagawa, T., Gunak,M. M., Peters, S., Flagmeier, A. L., Zwanzleitner, L., Sundmacher, L., Ramos-Murguialday, A.,Hautzinger, M., Ehring, T., Sudeck, G., & Wolf, S. (2025). Fear of COVID-19, physical activity, and psychopathology: A cross-sectional study. European Journal of Health Psychology.
  • Seiffer, B., & Wolf, S. (2025). “mentalFIT”: a pilot, randomized controlled trial investigating cognitively engaging exercise for executive functions. German Journal of Exercise and Sport Research.doi:10.1007/s12662-025-01032-1
  • Michalak, J., Wolf, S., Frei, A., & Heidenreich, T. (2025). Bewegung und Sport in der Psychotherapie. Die Psychotherapie. doi:10.1007/s00278-025-00776-3
  • Frei, A. K., Studnitz, T., Seiffer, B., Welkerling, J., Zeibig, J. M., Herzog, E., . . . Wolf, S. (2025). Associations Between Transdiagnostic Psychological Processes and Global Symptom Severity Among Outpatients With Various Mental Disorders: A Cross-Sectional Study. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 32(1), e70046. doi:10.1002/cpp.70046
  • Wolf, S., Meinzinger, E., Frei, A. K., Seiffer, B., Löchner, J., Takano, K., . . . Schuch, F. B. (2024). Is higher physical activity behaviour associated with less subsequent use of any psychotropic medication: Results of a random-effects meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies. Mental Health and Physical Activity, 27. doi:10.1016/j.mhpa.2024.100645
  • Wolf, S., Seiffer, B., Zeibig, J. M., Frei, A. K., Studnitz, T., Welkerling, J., Meinzinger, E., Bauer, L. L., Baur,J., Rosenstiel, S., Fiedler, D. V., Helmhold, F., Ray, A., Herzog, E., Takano, K., Nakagawa, T., Gunak, M., Kropp, S., Peters, S., Flagmeier, A. L., Zwanzleitner, L., Sundmacher, L., Ramos-Murguialday, A.,Hautzinger, M., Sudeck, G., & Ehring, T. (2024). A transdiagnostic group exercise intervention for mental health outpatients in Germany (ImPuls): results of a pragmatic, multisite, block-randomised, phase 3 controlled trial. Lancet Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(24)00069-5
  • Seiffer, B., Rosel, I., Welkerling, J., Schuch, F. B., Sudeck, G., & Wolf, S. (2024). The association of changes in leisure-time physical activity on depressive symptoms during Covid-19 in German adults: A longitudinal study. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 70, 102562.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2023.102562
  • Seiferth, C., Vogel, L., Aas, B., Brandhorst, I., Carlbring, P., Conzelmann, A., . . ., Wolf, S., Löchner, J. (2023). How to e-mental health: a guideline for researchers and practitioners using digital technology in the context of mental health. Nature Mental Health, 1(8), 542-554. doi:10.1038/s44220-023-00085-1
  • Fiedler, D. V., Rosenstiel, S., Zeibig, J. M., Seiffer, B., Welkerling, J., Frei, A. K., . . . Wolf, S. (2023). Concept and study protocol of the process evaluation of a pragmatic randomized controlled trial to promote physical activity in outpatients with heterogeneous mental disorders-the ImPuls study. Trials,24(1), 330. doi:10.1186/s13063-023-07331-y
  • Zeibig, J.-M., Takano, K., Seiffer, B., Sudeck, G., Rösel, I., Hautzinger, M., & Wolf, S. (2023). The increase in vagally-mediated heart rate variability mediates treatment effects of exercise on global symptom severity across diagnostically heterogenous mental disorders: A secondary analysis of the ImPuls trial. Mental Health and Physical Activity, 25. doi:10.1016/j.mhpa.2023.100537
  • Zeibig, J.-M., Seiffer, B., Frei, A. K., Takano, K., Sudeck, G., Rösel, I., Hautzinger, M., & Wolf, S. (2023). Long-term efficacy of exercise across diagnostically heterogenous mental disorders and the mediating role of affect regulation skills. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 64.doi:10.1016/j.psychsport.2022.102340
  • Rösel, I., Bauer, L. L., Seiffer, B., Deinhart, C., Atrott, B., Sudeck, G., Hautzinger, M., & Wolf, S. (2022). The effect of exercise and affect regulation skills on mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: Across-sectional survey. Psychiatry Research, 312, 114559. doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2022.114559
  • Wolf, S., Seiffer, B., Zeibig, J.-M., Welkerling, J., Bauer, L. L., Frei, A. K., Studnitz, T., Rosenstiel, S., Fiedler, D. V., Helmhold, F., Ray, A., Herzog, E., Takano, K., Nakagawa, T., Kropp, S., Franke, S., Peters,S., El-Kurd, N., Zwanzleitner, L., Sundmacher, L., Ramos-Murguialday, A., Hautzinger, M., Sudeck, G., &Ehring, T. (2021). Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of a Transdiagnostic group-based exercise intervention: study protocol for a pragmatic multi-site randomized controlled trial. BMC Psychiatry.doi: 10.1186/s12888-021-03541-3
  • Wolf, S., Seiffer, B., Zeibig, J.-M., Welkerling, J., Brokmeier, L., Atrott, B., . . . Schuch, F. B. (2021). Is Physical Activity Associated with Less Depression and Anxiety During the COVID-19 Pandemic? A Rapid Systematic Review. Sports Medicine. doi:10.1007/s40279-021-01468-z
  • Zeibig, J.-M., Seiffer, B., Sudeck, G., Rösel, I., Hautzinger, M., & Wolf, S. (2021). Transdiagnostic Efficacy of a Group Exercise Intervention for Outpatients with Heterogenous Psychiatric Disorders: A Randomized Controlled Trial. BMC Psychiatry. DOI: 10.1186/s12888-021-03307-x
  • Seiffer, B., Hautzinger, M., Ulrich, R., & Wolf, S. (2021). Efficacy of Regular Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity in Children with ADHD: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. Journal of Attention Disorders. doi:10.1177/10870547211017982
  • Seiffer, B., Wolf, S. (2020). Exercise as a possible treatment option in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Current study situation and suggestions for specific exercise interventions. Psychotherapie,DOI: 10.1007/s00278-020-00419-9
  • Wolf*, S., Zeibig*, J., Giel, K., Granz, H., Sudeck, G., Thiel, A. (2020). Sportliche Aktivität und psychische Erkrankungen. PSYCH up2date, 14:255-271. DOI: 10.1055/a-0973-1982
  • Broelz, EK., Enck, P., Niess, AM., Schneeweiss, P., Wolf, S., Weimar, K. (2019). The neurobiology of placebo effects in sports: EEG frontal alpha asymmetry increases in response to a placebo ergogenicaid. Scientific Reports, 9, 2381. Doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-38828-9
  • Wolf, S., Seiffer, B., Hautzinger, M., Kizilhan (2019). Aufbau psychotherapeutischer Versorgung in der Region Dohuk, Nordirak. Psychotherapie. DOI: 10.1007/s00278-019-0344-2
  • Broelz, EK., Wolf, S., Schneeweiss, P., Niess, AM., Enck, P., Weimar, K. (2018). Increasing effort without noticing: A randomized controlled pilot study about the ergogenic placebo effect in endurance athletes and the role of supplement salience. Plos One, 13, 6. Doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0198388
  • Keune, P. M., Hansen, S., Weber, E., Zapf, F., Habich, J., Muenssinger, J., Wolf, S., Schönenberg, M., & Oschmann, P. (2017). Exploring resting-state EEG brain oscillatory activity in relation to cognitive functioning in multiple sclerosis. Clinical Neurophysiology, 128(9), 1746-1754. DOI:10.1016/j.clinph.2017.06.253.
  • Adorjan, K., Mulugeta, S., Odenwald, M., Ndetei, D. M., Osman, A. H., Hautzinger, M., Wolf, S., ... & Schulze, T. G. (2017). Psychiatrische Versorgung von Flüchtlingen in Afrika und dem Nahen Osten [Psychiatric care of refugees in Africa and the Middle East]. Der Nervenarzt, 88(9), 974-982. DOI:10.1007/s00115-017-0365-4.
  • Wolf, S., Brölz, E., Keune, P., Wesa, B., Hautzinger, M., Birbaumer, N, Strehl, U. (2015). Motor skill failure or flow-experience? Functional brain asymmetry and brain connectivity in elite and amateur table tennis players. Biological Psychology, 105, 95-105. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.01.007
  • Wolf, S., Brölz, E. K., Scholz, D., Murguialday, A. R., Keune, P. M., Hautzinger, M., Birbaumer, N.,Strehl, U. (2014). Winning the game: Brain processes in expert, young elite and amateur table tennis players. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 8, 370. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00370
  • Wolf, S. & Hautzinger, M. (2012). Linderung depressiver Symptomatik. Ist sportliche Aktivität eine empfehlenswerte therapeutische Methode? Psychotherapie, 57(3), 241 – 247. Doi 10.1007/s00278-011-0854-z
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