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+++ intresa congratulates Maximilian König, member of our Young Researchers Network, for his successful PhD defense on September 25th at the University of Leiden. Maxi worked on “Friendship Stress Buffering in Young People with Childhood Adversity”. We are expecting a stellar career in resilience research. Keep on! +++

+++ Big congratulations from intresa to intresa member and past chairperson Karin Roelofs from Radboud University and Donders Institute, Nijmegen, for winning an ERC Advanced Grant on the topic of body-mind interactions during decisions under threat. This will be a big boost to resilience research. +++

+++ Congrats to intresa Young Researchers Network member Vincent Hammes from Uni Marburg for winning this year’s poster prize of Psychologie und Gehirn (PuG meeting) in Würzburg. His study: “Beyond diagnosis: A longitudinal, better-than-expeted approach to the neural correlates of resilience” +++

+++ A warm welcome to Michaela Kaneva from VU Amsterdam and Steve-Mattes Herbers from LIR Mainz as new members of our Young Researchers Network ++

+++ Several intresa researchers are currently preparing an application for the Wellcome Trust call on early prediction of psychopathology, involving the exploitation of longitudinal datasets collected in the network. We wish them good luck! +++

+++ Program ready, wonderful list of speakers, again many opportunities for early-career researchers, free methods workshop. Check out #resilience2025 in Mainz, Sept 24-26: lir-mainz.de/resilience-symposium +++

Our mission
The International Resilience Alliance e.V., intresa, is an initiative of academic researchers working together to promote scientific stress resilience research at all levels – by coordinating research activities, developing common definitions and terminology, setting methodological standards, providing research tools, sharing data and results, supporting grant initiatives, organizing workshops, symposia and conferences, lobbying for resilience, and reaching out to the public.

intresa understands resilience as the maintenance or rapid recovery of mental health in times of adversity, e.g., during and after challenging life circumstances, physical illness or traumatic events. Resilience research asks why some people stay mentally healthy although they are exposed to the same kinds of stressors that cause mental problems and dysfunctions in other people. Thus, instead of focusing on mechanisms that cause disease, we are interested in the factors and mechanisms that can protect humans from developing stress-related conditions. Focusing on mechanisms of health rather than disease is still an underexplored field of research and has great potential for the development of new prevention and treatment strategies.

We hope to thereby make a contribution to improving public health and the quality of life of millions of people and to reduce the occurrence of diseases such as anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, addiction, and others. Read here about the prevalence of stress-related disorders in industrialized societies and about why research on resilience and disease prevention is a strategic priority of mental health science.

intresa is a registered non-profit association acc. to German law and has an EU Participant Identification Code (PIC). intresa participates in the EU Horizon2020 project Dynamic MOdelling of REsilience (DynaMORE).