Walter Bierbauer

Walter Bierbauer, PhD

Senior Post-Doc

URPP Dynamics of Healthy Aging | LIFE Fellow

Phone: +41 44 635 72 58

Address: Binzmühlestrasse 14/14, CH-8050 Zürich

Room number: BIN 3.C.09

walter.bierbauer@psychologie.uzh.ch

Research interest

HEALTH BEHAVIOR CHANGE

  • Intraindividual processes and health behavior change
  • Development of theory-based interventions for health behavior change

COPING WITH STRESS AND ILLNESS

  • Social exchanges and regulation of well-being
  • Well-being in the context of chronic illness

Professional experience

current

Postdoc & lecturer at Applied Social- and Healh Psychology (Prof. Dr. Urte Scholz)

04/2016 -
01/2021
PhD candidate, Applied Social- and Healh Psychology,
University of Zurich, Switzerland
05/2014 - 03/2016 Student assistent, Applied Social- and Healh Psychology,
University of Zurich, Switzerland

Academic training

01/2021 PhD in Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
03/2016 MSc in Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
02/2014 BSc in Psychology, Karl-Frannzens University, Graz, Austria

Professional affiliations

German Psychological Society (DGPs)
European Health Psychology Society (EHPS)
International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP)

TRAINING IN DIDACTIC SKILLS

„Teaching Skills“ - Program of the Center for University Teaching and Learning of the University of Zurich (certified in October 2019)

Teaching

HS22 Research methods in psychology (Lecture, Bachelor)

FS17, FS18

Health and Stress Management (Master seminar)
HS16, HS18, HS19, FS22 Health promotion across the lifespan (Master seminar)

Ad hoc Reviews

Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, Health Psychology Review, Health Psychology Bulletin