Aspects:
the Scientist:
- Assistant professor (Oberassistent) in the newly founded department of Social and Business Psychology at the Department of Psychology, University of Zürich, October 2003 -
- Venia legendi for Psychology (title "Privatdozent") and lecturer in the Faculty for the Science of Information and Cognition at the University of Tübingen, July 2004 -
- Visiting Senior Research Fellow, The Open University, Institute of Educational Technology, UK, August - September 2003
- Assistant professor (Oberassistent) in Cognitive and Developmental Psychology at the Department of Psychology, University of Zürich, 2002 - September 2003
- Postdoctoral position in the above department, October 1997 - 2001
- Research position in the special project SFB 504 (German National Science Foundation) at the University of Mannheim, March - September 1997
- Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Tübingen, April 1997
- Research position in the project "Acquisition of causal knowledge", funded by a grant from the German National Science Foundation (DFG) to M. Waldmann
- Master of Arts in Psychology, 1992, from Sonoma State University (SSU), U.S.A.
- Studies in Psychology, Sonoma State University (SSU), U.S.A.
- Studies in Psychology, General Rhetoric (with Walter Jens) and Political Science, University of Tübingen
- Leibniz Kolleg (studium generale), Tübingen
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the Writer & Editor:
- Publications and Impact: Papers, books, book chapters [since October 1997] [before October 1997]
- Editor (with Adam Joinson, Katelyn McKenna, and Tom Postmes) of the Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology (2007) [cover]. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Founding editor (with Uwe Matzat) of the International Journal of Internet Science (IJIS), 2005-
- Consulting editor for Behavior Research Methods, 2004-
- Associate, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2007-
- Editorial Board, International Journal of Internet Research Ethics, 2007-
- Editorial Board, The Open Ergonomics Journal, 2007-
- Refereeing panel, British Journal of Educational Technology
- Presentations and posters [2002-] [1997-2008] [before 1998]
- Guest editor (with Jochen Musch) of special issue "Internet-based psychological experimenting", Experimental Psychology
- Guest editor (with Kai Sassenberg, Tom Postmes, and Margarethe Boos) of special issue "Studying the Internet: A challenge for modern psychology", Swiss Journal of Psychology
- Order Dimensions of Internet Science (appeared in May, 2001)
- WWW book Current Internet Science: Trends, Techniques, Results - Aktuelle Online-Forschung: Trends, Techniken, Ergebnisse (appeared in May, 1999)
- Member of the editorial board ("Redakteur") at psychologie.de
- Winning lyrics
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the Organizer:
- Ethics Commission, German Society for Psychology (DGPs), 2007-
- Research commission, elected faculty member, University of Zürich, 2007-
- Faculty representative ("Vorstand des Mittelbaus"), University of Zürich, 2007-2009
- President, Society for Computers in Psychology (SCiP),
2005-2006
- Conference committee, Society for Judgment and Decision Making (SJDM), 2008-2012
- Commission for Information and Communikation (IuK), German Society for Psychology (DGPs), 2002-2005
- Chief organizer of General Online Research conference 2005 in Zürich
- Workshop Das Internet als Setting für experimentelle Forschung in den Sozialwissenschaften, as part of a cooperation between German Society for Psychology (DGPs) and ZUMA/Gesis
- Board member and lecturer, Advanced Training Institute on Internet Research in Social Psychology, Fullerton, California (NSF and APA Grants to Michael Birnbaum)
- Researcher representing Switzerland in the International Sexuality Description Projects (ISDP and ISDP-2) with David Schmitt et al.
- Founder and former vice president, German Society for Online Research, with organization of GOR 2001 conference and GOR '02 conference and GOR '04 conference. Chief organizer of GOR '05 conference
- Affiliate of the Center for Human Development, Learning, and Technology at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, U.S.A., 2007-
- Steering committee, Society for Computers in Psychology (SCiP), 2000-2001, 2002-2005 and 2007-
- Elected representative ("Sprecher des Mittelbaus"), Department of Psychology, University of Zürich, 1998-2000
- E-learning commission, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zürich, 2004-
- Research commission, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zürich, 2000-2003
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the Granted:
- "Askito: Training und Kollaboration beim methodischen Wissenserwerb zu Online-Befragungen", Philosophische Fakultät der Universität Zürich (Principal investigator, with Klaus Jonas), 2009
- "Training von Studierenden mit dem Virtual Team Trainer II", Philosophische Fakultät der Universität Zürich (Principal investigator, with Klaus Jonas), 2009
- "Initiative Interaktives Lernen: Kernkomponenten Sozial- und Wirtschaftspsychologie III", Philosophische Fakultät der Universität Zürich (with Klaus Jonas), 2009
- "Formatbedingte Verzerrungen von psychometrischen Skalen", Foundation Suzanne und Hans Biäsch zur Förderung der Angewandten Psychologie (Principal investigator, with Klaus Melchers), 2007-2009 (18 months)
- German National Science Foundation (DFG) Project "Gender & E-Learning: Das aufwändige Geschlecht", collaborator for Switzerland, 2007-2009
- "Measurement in Web-based Surveys", Harris Interactive Inc., 2007-2008
- Project Grant "E-Learning: Versuchsplanung in der Sozial- und Wirtschaftspsychologie", Philosophische Fakultät der Universität Zürich (with Klaus Jonas), 2008
- Project Grant "Training von Studierenden mit dem Virtual Team Trainer", Philosophische Fakultät der Universität Zürich (with Klaus Jonas), 2008
- Project Grant "Initiative Interaktives Lernen: Kernkomponenten Sozial- und Wirtschaftspsychologie II", Philosophische Fakultät der Universität Zürich (with Klaus Jonas), 2008
- Five year grant supporting the International Journal of Internet Science, Globalpark GmbH, 2006-2010
- Project Grant "E-Learning: Social Bookmarking as a research tool ", Philosophische Fakultät der Universität Zürich (with Klaus Jonas), 2007
- Project Grant "Initiative Interaktives Lernen: Kernkomponenten Sozial- und Wirtschaftspsychologie", Philosophische Fakultät der Universität Zürich (with Klaus Jonas), 2007
- Project Grant "Online questionnaire checker module ", Philosophische Fakultät der Universität Zürich (with Klaus Jonas), 2007
- Project Grant "Privacy and self-disclosure online" (PRISD) by the British Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
(with A. Joinson & T. Buchanan), 2005-2007
- Project Grant "Consolidation Programme Methodological Education for the Social Sciences" in the Swiss Virtual Campus, Module "Experimental Design and Web-based Experimentation" (with Klaus Jonas and Friedrich Wilkening), 2004-2006
- Pre-project grant "Qualitätssicherung, Data mining, Einstellungsmessung, Persönlichkeit, Arbeitszufriednheit", Swisscall Telemarketing, 2005
- Project Grant "E-Learning: Versuchsplanung in der Sozial- und Wirtschaftspsychologie", Philosophische Fakultät der Universität Zürich (with Klaus Jonas), 2004
- Project Grant "Methodological Education for the Social Sciences" in the Swiss Virtual Campus, Module "Experimental Design and Web-based Experimentation" (with Friedrich Wilkening), 2000-2003
- Project Grant "Die Internet-basierte Erforschung des Einflusses von Anonymität, Freiwilligkeit und Befragungstechnik auf die Erhebung von Mitarbeiterzufriedenheit und Commitment" by Zürcher Kantonalbank, 2002-2003
- Project "Social desirability in online studies" (with Joachim Stöber, Halle & André Hahn, Research International, Potsdam)
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the Awarded:
- Life time research tenure, Basque Science Foundation, 2008
(see description in Nature)
- Invitation to Visiting Full Professorship (11 months) in Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria, March 2008
- Visiting Research Fellowship Awards: Department of Psychology, TU Chemnitz, (Feb. 2004 & Sept. 2004)
- Peer-nominated as key player in the "social shaping of e-science and e-social science" in a study by Steve Woolgar, Professor of Marketing, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, for the British Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) (2003)
- Visiting Research Fellowship Award, The Open University, Institute of Educational Technology, UK (2003)
- Guest professorship: Zentrum für Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen (ZUMA), Mannheim (March 2000)
- Young Scientist Award (2nd place), Methodology section of the German Society for Psychology (1997)
- First German Award for Internet Literature (4th place) by "Die Zeit" (1996)
- Scholarship for outstanding graduate students (1991), awarded by the Faculty of the Department of Psychology, Sonoma State University
- Awards for the Web Experimental Psychology Lab by spiegel.de, web.de, Magellan, Planet Science, Encyclopedia Britannica, New Scientist, The British Academy, American Psychological Society, and others
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the Affiliated:
- American Psychological Association (APA), 1999-2003
- European Association of Methodology (EAM), 2004-
- Federation of Swiss Psychologists (FSP), 1998-
- German Society for Online Research (D.G.O.F.), 1997 (founder) -
- German Society for Psychology (DGPs), 2001-
- Society for Computers in Psychology (SCiP), 1996-
- Society for Judgment and Decision Making (JDM)
- Software Ergonomics interest group, Swiss Informatics Society (SI)
- Swiss Psychological Association (SGP), 1998-
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the Artist:
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the Web Author:
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the Collaborator:
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... among them former students:
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the Lover:
- there are limits to the Web ;-)
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