Liane Simon

Education

1991: Diploma in Educational Science
1992: First State Examination for Teaching at Special Schools
1993-2017: Director Early Intervention  Center, Norderstedt (IFF)
2007: certified Systemic Family Therapist (DGSF)
2010: Research Associate, MSH Medical School Hamburg
2013: PhD, University of Hamburg
2013: Full Professorship „ Transdisciplinary Early Intervention“ at MSH Medical School Hamburg

Academic Positions

2013: Professor for Transdisciplinary Early Intervention at MSH Medical School Hamburg
2014-2023: Program Director, Transdisciplinary Early Intervention
2015-2021: Head of the Department of Family, Child, and Social Work
since 2021: Dean of the Faculty of Art, Health, and Social Science

Team Coordination / Leadership / Project Management

Since 2015: founding chair, ICF Research Institute

Functions and Membership in Scientific Societies

2023-2025: Advisory Board Member, Federal Association for Interdisciplinary Early Intervention e.V.
2021-2023: Vice Chair, Federal Association for Interdisciplinary Early Intervention e.V.
2019-2021: Chair, Federal Association for Interdisciplinary Early Intervention e.V.

2017-2023: Member of Steering Committee, ICF Research Branch, Notwil, Switzerland

2016-2024: Personally appointed member of the Advisory Board, National Center for Early Help (NZFH) associated with the German Youth Institute (DJI) and the Federal Center for Health Education (BzgA) for the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs (BMFSFJ).

2015-2020: Advisory member of the German delegation (DIMDI, German Collaborating Center) at WHO Family of International Classification Meetings,  Poster presentations in 2015 (Manchester), 2016 (Tokyo), 2017 (Mexico), 2018 (Seoul), 2019 (Banff). Host of WHO-FIC Midyear Meeting 2018 in Hamburg.

Membership in Professional Societies:

• Association for Interdisciplinary Early Intervention (VIFF)
• Association for Special Education (vds)
• German Society for Systemic Family Therapy (DGSF)

Awards

2022: Julius Springer Pediatrics Award from the journal Monatsheilkunde

Engagement in Knowledge Transfer and Scientific Communication

Since 2017: Co-organizer of annual national ICF User Conferences (ICF-CY and ICF).
Since 2013: Co-founder and co-organizer of annual nationwide ICF-CY User Conferences.
Since 2005: Speaker and workshop leader at all symposia of the Association for Interdisciplinary Early Intervention (VIFF).
Since 2004: Several ICF workshops/year in Germany.