Lana Kalemba, Psychologist (M.Sc.)

LVR-Universitätsklinik Essen
Kliniken/Institut der Universität Duisburg-Essen
Institut für Forensische Psychiatrie und Sexualforschung
Postfach 103043
45030 Essen

lana.kalemba@stud.uni-due.de

Vita

since 2026

PhD Epidemiology & Clinical Research (Structured Programme)
Medical Faculty, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Dissertation: Sexualised Drug Use in Diverse Populations
Supervision: Prof. Dr. med. Johannes Fuß, Prof. Dr. med. Stefan Esser

since 2025 Research Assistant at the Institute of Forensic Psychiatry and Sex Research
2024-2025 Research internship & Master thesis research project at the Institute of Forensic Psychiatry and Sex Research
2023-2025

M.Sc. Psychology at the Department of Experimental Psychology, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Master thesis: "The Association Between Sexual Minority Stress and Problematic Pornography Use in an International Sexual Minority Sample"
Thesis supervisors: Mónika Koós, PhD, Prof. Dr. Susanne Becker

2022-2023

Internship & Freelance Work
Womens’ Counselling Centre Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

2021-2024 Speaker of the Students’ Union
Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
Focus: Anti-Discrimination
2020-2021 Student Research Assistant
Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
2019-2023

B.Sc. Psychology at the Department of Experimental Psychology, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Bachelor thesis: "Efficacy Evaluation of a Two-Week Version of the Mindfulness-Based Online-Intervention ‘room2reboot’ regarding Problematic Pornography Use, Mindfulness, and Ambivalent Sexism" 
Thesis supervisors: Dr. Benedict Reichrath, Dr. Romina Müller

Conference Presentations

  • Kalemba, L., Koós, M., Fuß, J., Jennings, T. L., Nagy, L., Kraus, S., Potenza, M., Demetrovics, Z., The International Sex Survey Consortium, Bőthe, B. (2025). The Association Between Minority Stress and Problematic Pornography Use in an International Sexual Minority Sample: Preregistration. Poster presentation at the 28th Scientific Conference of the German Society for Sex Research (DGfS) (19-21 September, 2025)
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