Since September 2021 I am Professor of Social Psychology in the Context of Work, Society, and Economy, and head of the Social and Economic Psychology group at the Department of Occupational, Economic, and Social Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria. I am the the co-director of the Research Network Health in Society at the Unicersity of Vienna. Additionally, I hold positions as a member and vice chairperson of the Technical Advisory Group on Behavioral and Cultural Insights at the World Health Organization/Regional Office for Europe and as a member of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on Social Dilemmas (ICSD).
I am also a part-time Professor of Applied Social Psychology and Behavioral Science at the Department of Psychology and the Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS), University of Copenhagen, Denmark, where I was a full-time professor from 2019 to 2021. Before I was an Assistant Professor ("Juniorprofessor") of Decision Analysis at RWTH Aachen University, Germany (2013-2019), and a Postdoc at the Center for Empirical Research in Economicsand Behavioral Sciences, University of Erfurt, Germany (2010-2013).
I have a PhD in (Social/Economic) Psychology from the University of Jena, Germany (2007-2010), and studied Psychology and Intercultural Communication at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany (2002-2007).