Dr. Svenja Müller

Scientific staff

Stress & Work Design

+49 231 1084-325

mueller@ifado.de

Head of department

Prof. Dr. Edmund Wascher

wascher@ifado.de

+49 231 1084-362

Secretariat

Judith Geiger

geiger@ifado.de

+49 231 1084-361

Address

Ardeystr. 67
44139 Dortmund

since 2025
Post-doc at Leibniz Institut für Arbeitsforschung (IfaDo), Department for Ergonomics
2023-2025
Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Genetic Epidemiology in Psychiatry, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim
2022
Doctorate (Dr. rer-nat.) in Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum
2018-2022
Research assistant (doctoral candidate), Department of Genetic Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum
2018
Master of Science in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Ruhr University Bochum
2016
Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum

Here you will find the Publications from 2010 onwards.

Zillich L, Artioli A, Pohořalá V, Zillich E, Stertz L, Belschner H, Jabali A, Frank J, Streit F, Avetyan D, Völker MP, Müller S, Hansson AC, Meyer TD, Rietschel M, Ladewig J, Spanagel R, Oliveira AMM, Walss-Bass C, Bernardi RE, Koch P, Witt SH:

Cell type-specific multi-omics analysis of cocaine use disorder in the human caudate nucleus. Nat Commun 16(1): 3381 (2025) doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-57339-y

Müller S, Lieb K, Streit F, Awasthi S, Wagner S, Frank J, Müller MB, Tadic A, Heilmann-Heimbach S, Hoffmann P, Mavarani L, Schmidt B, Rietschel M, Witt SH, Zillich L, Engelmann J:

Common polygenic variation in the early medication change (EMC) cohort affects disorder risk, but not the antidepressant treatment response. J Affect Disord 363: 542-551 (2024) doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2024.07.138

Müller S, Sicorello M, Moser D, Frach L, Limberg A, Gumpp AM, Ramo-Fernandez L, Köhler-Dauner F, Fegert JM, Waller C, Kumsta R, Kolassa IT:

The DNA methylation landscape of the human oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR): data-driven clusters and their relation to gene expression and childhood adversity. Transl Psychiatry 13(1): 265 (2023) doi: 10.1038/s41398-023-02548-6

Kumsta R, Zang JCS, Hummel EM, Müller S, Moser DA, Herpertz S, Kessler H:

Treatment-associated mRNA co-expression changes in monocytes of patients with posttraumatic stress disorder. Front Psychiatry 14: 1181321 (2023) doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1181321

Hummel E, Elgizouli M, Sicorello M, Leitão E, Beygo J, Schröder C, Zeschnigk M, Müller S, Herpertz S, Moser D, Kessler H, Horsthemke B, Kumsta R:

No evidence for intervention-associated DNA methylation changes in monocytes of patients with posttraumatic stress disorder. Sci Rep 12(1): 17347 (2022) doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-22177-1

Müller S, Moser D, Frach L, Wimberger P, Nitzsche K, Li SC, Kirschbaum C, Alexander N:

No long-term effects of antenatal synthetic glucocorticoid exposure on epigenetic regulation of stress-related genes. Transl Psychiatry 12(1): 62 (2022) doi: 10.1038/s41398-022-01828-x

Moser DA, Müller S, Hummel EM, Limberg AS, Dieckmann L, Frach L, Pakusch J, Flasbeck V, Brüne M, Beygo J, Klein-Hitpass L, Kumsta R:

Targeted bisulfite sequencing: A novel tool for the assessment of DNA methylation with high sensitivity and increased coverage. Psychoneuroendocrinology 120: 104784 (2020) doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2020.104784