Valerie Hofmann is a PhD student in the CRPP “Synapse, Trauma and Addiction”. She studied psychology at Humboldt University of Berlin. At the University Hospital Charité she assessed trajectories of resilience reactions in the internalizing spectrum in her final year of studying. After working as a psychosocial consultant for refugees at Xenion e.V. she started her PhD at UZH researching intrusive memories in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Cocaine Use Disorder. She has worked in cooperation with other researchers on loneliness, alcohol use disorder and personality scale validation.