Staff members of the Chair of Developmental Psychology: Adulthood

Chair

 

Alexandra M. Freund, Prof. Dr. phil.

 
Freund 120

 

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

Senior Reasearch Scientists

 

Sebastian Horn, Dr. rer. nat.

 
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Senior teaching and research associate
horn@psychologie.uzh.ch
Homepage

Phone +41 44 635 72 02

  • Cognition from a developmental lifespan perspective
  • Prospective and episodic memory
  • Judgment and decision making
  • Motivational orientation and value-based decisions
  • Cognitive measurement modeling

Doctoral Students

 

Zita Mayer, MSc

 

zmay 120

                                           

Doctoral student
mayer@psychologie.uzh.ch
Homepage

Room BIN 3.A.12

                                                                                

• Self-regulation

• Dynamics of multiple goal pursuit

• Lifespan developmental psychology

 

Jasmin Brummer, MSc

 
brummer
Doctoral student
brummer@psychologie.uzh.ch
Homepage
Room BIN 3.A.02

• Prospective memory

• Motivation

• Lifespan developmental psychology

• Cognitive models

 

 

 

 

Beatrice Tarapoanca, MSc

 
tarapoanca
Doctoral student
tarapoanca@psychologie.uzh.ch
Homepage
Room BIN 3.A.02

• Exhaustion and recovery processes

• Lifespan developmental psychology

 

Ziqi Zhang, M.Ed.

 
zhang
Doctoral student
ziqi.zhang@uzh.ch
Homepage
Room BIN 3.A.03

• Lifespan developmental psychology

• Develop self-related cognitions and emotions throughout the lifespan

• Mental and physical effort

 

 

 

Jasmin Weber, MSc

 
jasmweb
Doctoral student
weber@psychologie.uzh.ch
Homepage
Room BIN 3.A.03

• Prosocial behaviour

 

 

     

External Doctoral Students

 

Christopher Elmi, MSc

                                                                             
celmi 120

 

Doctoral student
elmi@psychologie.uzh.ch
Homepage
                                                                    
• Self-regulation   
• Lifespan developmental psychology
• Planning and backup planning
• Goal pursuit

Administrative and technical support

 

Celina Flück, BA Sinology & Ethnlology

ceflück

 

Administrative Staff
life-management@psychologie.uzh.ch
Homepage
Phone +41 44 635 72 01

 

  • Administration                                                        
 

Tove Hensler, MSc

 
thensler

 

Lab Manager

hensler@psychologie.uzh.ch

Homepage

Room BIN 3.A.08

 

 

Valentina Triantafyllidou, BSc Psych. / MEng.*                                      

vtrian

 

IT Manager
it.life-management@psychologie.uzh.ch

Homepage

Phone +41 44 635 71 97
Room BIN 3.A.04                                                                                                                     

                                                                                          

Adjunct Lecturers

 

Laura Almeling, Dr. rer. nat.         

                                                     

lamal

     

almeling@psychologie.uzh.ch
Homepage                                                 

  • Determinants of healthy aging
  • Attention focus in daily life
  • Behavioral Endocrinology (Testosterone and Cortisol)
 

Brian Cardini, Dr. phil.                   

 
ciardini 120

                                           

cardini@psychologie.uzh.ch
Homepage

  • Processes of exhaustion and recovery
  • Age-related changes in the subjective availability of energy for daily activities across adulthood
  • Multiple goal pursuit
 

Oliver J. Kaftan, Dr. phil.               

 
okaftan 120

                                            

External Lecturer
kaftan@psychologie.uzh.ch
Homepage                                                     

  • Procrastination
  • Goal focus
  • Self regulation

Photos and digital imaging by Isabel Hotz

 

Student assistants

Alexander Toufexis, alexander.toufexis@uzh.ch

Ella Ladina Sommer, ellaladina.sommer@uzh.ch

Noemi Huber, noemi.huber@uzh.ch

Tianshuai Lu, tianshuai.lu@uzh.ch

Cooperation Partners

Dr. Yaniv Hanoch, University of Southampton (UK)

Prof. Dr. Derek M. Isaacowitz, Northeastern University, Boston, MA (USA)

Prof. Dr. Andreas Keil (University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA)

Prof. Dr. Jana Nikitin, Universität Wien

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Mayr (University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA)

Dr. Jonathan Rolison, University of Essex (UK)



Former members of the chair

Former senior researchers

  • Bettina S. Wiese, Dr. phil. Prof.
  • Jana Nikitin, Dr. phil. Prof.
  • Veronika Job, Dr. phil. Prof.

Former doctoral students

  • Dr. Brian B. Cardini
  • Dr. Christine P. Seiger
  • Dr. Jana Nikitin
  • Dr. Johannes O. Ritter
  • Josua Schmeitzky †
  • Dr. Kathrin Krause
  • Dr. Lea Mörsdorf
  • Dr. Marie Hennecke
  • Dr. Maida Mustafic
  • Dr. Oliver J. Kaftan
  • Quincy Rondei
  • Ruichai Jia
  • Dr. Simone Schoch
  • Dr. Victoria Schüttengruber

Former postdoctoral researchers

  • Brian Cardini, Dr. phil.
  • Burcu Demiray Batur, Ph.D.
  • Christina Röcke, Dr. phil.
  • Christopher M. Napolitano, Ph.D.
  • Corwin Senko, Dr. phil.
  • David Weiss, Prof. Dr. phil.
  • Jordan Boeder, Ph.D.
  • Joshua Rutt, Ph.D.
  • Laura Almeling, Dr. rer. nat.
  • Laure Tremonte
  • Miriam K. Depping, Dr. phil.
  • Michaela Knecht, Dr. sc. ETH
  • Martin Tomasik, PD Dr. phil.
  • Oliver J. Kaftan, Ph.D.
  • Ryan Best, Ph.D.
  • Vanda Sieber
  • Xianmin Gong

Former assistants

  • Isabel Hotz, MSc
  • Katarzyna Karcz, MSc
  • Lea Bächlin
  • Laura Gina Schmid, MSc
  • Laura Hack, MSc
  • Linda Miesler, Dr. phil.
  • Martin Dobricki, Dr. phil.
  • Martin Pletscher, lic. phil.
  • Numan Korkut
  • Regula Gasser, Dr. phil.
  • Robin Knecht
  • Simon Graf
  • Sören Porth
  • Simona Seidmann, MSc
  • Stefan Walter, Dr. phil.
  • Viollca Nebihi

Former technical support

  • Benjamin Bill
  • Enrique Wintsch, lic. phil.
  • Frank Schleich
  • Jiří Hošek, Ph.D.
  • Stephan Graf

Former guest researchers

  • Anne Böger, Dr.
  • Hana Harenčárová, Mgr.*
  • Jochen P. Ziegelmann, Dr. phil.
  • Sylvie Graf (fmr. Kourilova), Dr.
  • Tiia Kekäläinen, Dr.

* equivalent to Master of Science (MSc)