Staff members of the Chair of Developmental Psychology: Adulthood

Head

	Alexandra M. Freund, Prof. Dr. phil.
	Professor freund@psychologie.uzh.ch Homepage Phone +41 44 635 72 00 Room BIN 3.A.05	Processes of developmental regulation; successful development Motivation across the life span Development of self-related cognitions and emotions across the life span Lifelong learning
Administrative support
	Tamara Herz, Dipl.-Psych.*
	Administration lifespan@psychologie.uzh.ch Phone +41 44 635 72 01 Room BIN 3.A.04	Administration
Senior researcher
	Sebastian Horn, Ph.D.
	Senior teaching and research associate horn@psychologie.uzh.ch Homepage Phone +41 44 635 72 02	Memory-based decision making from a developmental lifespan perspective Prospective and episodic memory Motivational reorientation in value-based decisions across the lifespan Uncertainty in different decision domains: preferential, perceptual-motor, and memory-based Cognitive measurement modeling
	Chris Napolitano, Ph.D.
	Senior teaching and research associate napolitano@psychologie.uzh.ch Homepage	Self regulation Relational developmental systems theories Developmental equifinality and multifinality
Postdoctoral researchers
	Laura Almeling, Dr. rer. nat.
	Postdoctoral researcher almeling@psychologie.uzh.ch Homepage Room BIN 3.A.13	Determinants of healthy aging Attention focus in daily life Behavioral Endocrinology (Testosterone and Cortisol)
	Ryan Best, Ph.D.
	Postdoctoral researcher University Research Priority Program "Dynamics of Healthy Aging" best@psychologie.uzh.ch Homepage Room BIN 3.A.07	Aging and decision-making Motivation, experience, and self-efficacy Subjective valuation, acceptance, and adoption of technology
	Xianmin Gong, Ph.D.
	Postdoctoral researcher gong@psychologie.uzh.ch Room BIN 3.A.02	Motivational orientation towards gains, maintenance, loss avoidance across adulthood Change of motivation and emotion across adulthood Interplay of emotion and cognition
	Oliver J. Kaftan, Ph.D.
	Postdoctoral researcher kaftan@psychologie.uzh.ch Homepage Room BIN 3.A.02	Procrastination Goal focus Self regulation
Doctoral students
	Anastasia Besika, MSc
	Doctoral student anastasia.besika@uzh.ch Homepage Room BIN 3.A.03	The relationship of sources of meaning and values The influence of values on goal setting Maximizing meaning in personal goals
	Brian Cardini, MSc
	Doctoral student University Research Priority Program "Dynamics of Healthy Aging" cardini@psychologie.uzh.ch Homepage Room BIN 3.A.03	Time perception Recovery and exhaustion processes Multiple goal pursuit
	Christopher Elmi, MSc
	Doctoral student elmi@psychologie.uzh.ch Homepage Room BIN 3.A.12	Self-Regulation Lifespan Developmental Psychology Planning and Backup Planning Goal Pursuit
	Zita Mayer, MSc
	Doctoral student mayer@psychologie.uzh.ch Homepage Room BIN 3.A.13	Self-Regulation Dynamics of multiple goal pursuit Life-span developmental psychology
	Lea Mörsdorf, MSc
	Doctoral student moersdorf@psychologie.uzh.ch Homepage Phone +41 44 635 74 93 Room BIN 4.A.07	Goal representations Perception of goal-directed actions Self-regulation
Technical support
	Jiří Hošek, Ph.D.
	Research assistent it.lifespan@psychologie.uzh.ch Phone +41 44 635 71 97 Room BIN 3.A.04
	Isabel Hotz, MSc
	Scientific Research Assistant hotz@psychologie.uzh.ch Phone +41 44 635 72 07 Room BIN 3.A.08
	Cindy Wunderli, MSc
	Research Assistant Project «MyWay» cindy.wunderli@uzh.ch Room BIN 3.A.13
Adjunct Lecturers
	Prof. Jana Nikitin, PD Dr. phil. Professor at the University of Basel jana.nikitin@unibas.ch Homepage	Development of social motivation Motivational processes in transitions Approach and avoidance motivation
	Michaela Riediger, PD Dr. Head of Heisenberg-Group „Socio-Emotional Development and Heath Across the Lifespan“ Department of Education and Psychology of the Free University Berlin and Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin riediger@mpib-berlin.mpg.de Homepage Phone +49 30 824 06 411	Emotional development form adolescence to old age Age differences in emotional abilities Motivational conflicts across the lifespan
	Martin Tomasik, PD Dr. phil. Professor Faculty of Health Witten/Herdecke University Martin.Tomasik@uni-wh.de	Age differences in goal engagement and disengagement Biopsychosocial contexts of goal enagagement and disengagement Social, motivational and emotional aspects of life-span developmental psychology Globalisation and social change