Stefan G. Hofmann, Ph.D., is a world eminence in the area of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Anxiety Disorders. He has been researching the nature of emotional disorders and the processes through which psychological treatments alleviate symptoms for more than 20 years.

His extensive background has earned him the Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Translational Clinical Psychology and the Department of Clinical Psychology at the Philipps University of Marburg in Germany and he is currently a Professor in the Department of Neurology and Psychology at Boston University, where he directs the Psychotherapy and Emotion Research Laboratory at the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders.

He has served as president of numerous professional organizations and is editor-in-chief of Cognitive Therapy and Research. In addition, he has been included in the Highly Cited Researchers list and has received the Aaron T. Beck Award for Significant and Enduring Contributions to the Field of Cognitive Therapy and the Humboldt Research Award.  

He has also become a world reference as a consultant in the development process of the DSM-5, a manual created to help health professionals in the diagnosis of mental disorders and in the elaboration of a perfectly documented treatment plan for each individual. 

In the research field, Stefan G. Hofmann, PhD, has published more than 400 journal articles and 20 books on anxiety disorders, depression, emotions, the mechanism of treatment change, the translation of neuroscience findings into clinical applications, emotion regulation and cultural expressions of psychopathology. 

• Editor-in-chief of the journal Cognitive Therapy and Research
• Advisor in the creation of the DSM-5 
• Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University 
• Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Marburg 
• Fellowship in Psychology at Stanford University 
• Alexander von Humboldt Chair in Clinical Translational Psychology 
• Member of: 
  
  • DSM-5 Sub-Working Group on Anxiety Disorder 
  • DSM-5-TR Cross-Cultural Review Group