Publications
RESEARCH INTERESTS
HEALTH BEHAVIOUR CHANGE
- Social exchange processes and health-behavior change
- Intrapersonal aspects of behavior change
- Development of theory-based interventions for health-behavior change
COPING WITH STRESS AND ILLNESS
- Social exchanges and regulation of well-being
- Dyadic exchange and well-being in the context of chronic illness
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Since 09/2013 | Full Professor, Applied Social and Health Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
02/2018 - 01/2022 |
Programme Director for “Education and Health” of the Master in Psychology Programme at the Swiss Distance Learning University, CH |
02/2012 - 08/2013 | Full Professor, Developmental and Health Psychology, University of Konstanz |
04/2011 - 01/2012 | Professorship of the Swiss National Science Foundation, University of Bern, Switzerland |
10/2005 - 03/2011 | Senior teaching and research associate [Oberassistentin], University of Zurich, Department of Psychology, Social and Health Psychology, Switzerland (Prof. Dr. Rainer Hornung) |
10/2001 - 09/2005 | Pre-doctoral research fellow with Prof. Dr. Ralf Schwarzer, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (Prof. Dr. Ralf Schwarzer) |
ACADEMIC TRAINING
Since 2009 | Licensed Health Psychologist [Fachpsychologin für Gesundheitspsychologie], FSP |
07/2005 | Ph.D. in Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany |
08/2001 | German Diploma in Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany |
AWARDS
2018 | Fellow of the International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP) |
2017 | Fellow of the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS) |
2005 | Early Career Award, Stress and Anxiety Research Society (STAR) |
TRAINING IN DIDACTIC SKILLS
„Teaching Skills“ - Program of the Center for University Teaching and Learning of the University of Zurich (certified in May 2010)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
- European Association of Social Psychology (EASP)
- European Health Psychology Society (EHPS)
- German Psychological Society (DGPs)
- International Behavioural Trials Network (IBTN)
- International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP)
- Swiss Federation of Psychologists (FSP)
- Swiss Society of Health Psychology (SGGPsy)
- Swiss Society of Psychology (SGP)
Membership in Editorial Boards
Associate Editor
- Anxiety, Stress, and Coping (01/2010-12/2012)
- British Journal of Health Psychology (01/2013-06/2017)
- Co-Guest Editor of Special Issue on “Understanding and Predicting Health
Behavior Change: A Contemporary View” for Health Psychology Review (2019)
Editorial Board Member
- Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being (since 2008)
- Annals of Behavioral Medicine (since 2020)
- Health Psychology (2012-2017)
- International Journal of Behavioral Medicine (since 2017)
- Obesity: Science and Practice (since 2014)
- Psychology & Health (since 2011)
- Social Science and Medicine (since 2016)
- European Journal of Health Psychology (since 2013)
Ad hoc Reviews
American Journal of Preventive Medicine; Applied Psychology: An International Review; Appetite; Behavioral Medicine; Cochrane Heart; Environment & Behavior; European Journal of Aging; European Journal of Social Psychology; Gerontology; Health Education Research; Health Psychology Review; International Journal of Obesity; International Journal of Psychology; Journal of Aging and Health; Journal of Applied Social Psychology; Journal of Health Psychology; Journal of Psychosocial Oncology; Journal of Psychosomatic Research; Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology; Nicotine & Tobacco Research; Patient Education Counselling; PLOS One; Psychology of Sport and Exercise; Psychoneuroendocrinology; Psycho-Oncology; Public Health Nutrition, Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport; Social Psychology; Swiss Journal of Psychology
REVIEWER FOR RESEARCH GRANTS
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- European Research Council
- European Science Foundation
- German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development
- German Research Foundation
- OeAD (Austrian Academic Exchange Service)Economic & Social Research Council (UK)
- Polish National Science Centre
- Swiss National Science Foundation
SCIENTIFIC APPOINTMENTS
Since 10/2018 | President of the Swiss Society of Health Psychology (SGGPsy) |
2017-2018 | President-elect of the Swiss Society of Health Psychology (SGGPsy) |
Since 07/2018 | Past President of the Division 8 (Health Psychology), of the International Association of Applied Psychology |
Since 08/2017 | President of the Committee of the Psychological Counselling Services for Students of University of Zurich and ETH Zurich |
2014-2018 | President of the Division 8 (Health Psychology), of the International Association of Applied Psychology |
2010 - 2014 | President Elect of the Division 8 (Health Psychology), of the International Association of Applied Psychology |
Since 2009 | Member of the committee of advanced studies for chartered health psychologists, FSP, of the Swiss Society of Health Psychology (SGGPSy) |
2009 - 2012 | Secretary of the Swiss Society of Health Psychology (SGGPSy) |
2006 - 2012 | National Representative for Switzerland of STAR |
2006 - 2010 | Secretary der Division 8 (Health Psychology), der International Association of Applied Psychology |