Education
Mathematics
History
Psychology
Examination
1995 Habilitation at the University of Vienna for the total subject Psychology
1985 Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) (Psychology) at the University of Vienna
1976 Doctorate (Dr. phil. (History) at the University of Vienna
1975 Graduation as Mag. rer. nat. (Mathematics and History) at the University of Vienna
Professional career
2016-2019 Deputy Head of the Department of Applied Psychology: Work, Education, Economy, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna
2006-16 Head of the Department of Applied Psychology: Work, Education, Economy (until end of 2011 Institute of Business Psychology, Educational Psychology and Evaluation), Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna
2004-06 Founding Dean of the Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna
2001-04 Deputy Head of the Institute of Psychology, University of Vienna
2000- Chair of Educational Psychology and Evaluation, Department of Psychology, University of Vienna
1998-99 Provisional Vice-Rector for Teaching, Human Resources Development and Advancement of Women at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz
1996-98 Provisional Head of the Department of Applied Psychology and Methodology at the Institute of Psychology, Karl-Franzens-University Graz
1995-00 Five-year visiting professorship at the Institute of Psychology, Karl-Franzens-University Graz
1992-95 Assistant Professor at the Institute of Psychology, University of Vienna
1989-92 Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin (Director: Paul B. Baltes)
1980-89 University Assistant at the Institute of Psychology, University of Vienna
1978-80 Parental leave due to children
1975-78 High school teacher for mathematics and history at the Bundesgymnasium II in Vienna
Visiting Professorships, Lectureships and Reserach Stays
2013
Senior Researcher at the Winter School of Associazione Italiana di Psicologia, Palermo, Italy
2010
Senior Researcher at the Winter School of the European Association for Developmental Psychology, Tenerife, Spain
2008
Senior Researcher at the Summer School der European Association for Developmental Psychology, Syros, Greek
2008
Visiting research fellowship at the Kyoto University, Global COE (Centers of Excellence) Program, Kyoto, Japan
2007
Short-term Research Visiting Professorship at the University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
2001-2012
Lectureships at the University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
1993
Lectureship at the Michigan State Universtity, USA
1991-1992
Lectureships at the Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Awards
2023
Award of honorary membership of the Professional Association of Austrian Psychologists (BÖP)
2022
Appointment as Honorary Senator of the University of Vienna
2022
Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD)
2021
Proposed by the Public Relations Association Austria as Communicator of the Year 2020 (shortlist of3 people)
2020
Honorary member of the Austrian Society for Psychology
2016
Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Arts first class
2014
Franz Emanuel Weinert Award for outstanding research and knowledge transfer in society
2011
Kardinal-Innitzer-Award for outstanding Research
2011
Science Award of the Margarete Lupac foundation of the Austrian Parliament for Parliamentarism and Democracy
2010
Grand Decoration of Honour in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria
2010
Medal of honour of the Leibnitz University Hannover
2010
Fellow of the Association of Psychological Science (APS)
2010
Grand Decoration of Honour in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria
2009
Käthe-Leichter-Award for Gender Research from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Culture and Cultural Affairs
2006
Winner of the University Management Award of Danube University Krems for the Department for Psychology
2006
Award for Humanities and social sciences from the city of Vienna
2002
creative teaching (E-Learning) from the University of Vienna
2002
Bank Austria Research Award for innovations in the field of interdisciplinary study
2001
Best practice award for innovative teaching from the University of Vienna
Tasks in the Scientific Community
2023 –
Vice Chairwoman of the University Council of the University of Leoben
2023 -
Member of the Advisory Board of the Digital Competence Initiative for Austria
2022-
Vice chairwoman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute of the Federation for Quality Assurance in the Austrian School System (IQS)
2022 – 2023
Member of the Search Committee for the Chancellor of the University of Wuppertal
2022 – 2023
Mentor in the career development program for female scientists at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, the Paris Lodron University Salzburg and the University for Continuing Education Krems
2022
Member of the search committee for the rector of the University of Leoben
2021-2022
Member of the search committee for the Rector of the University of Wuppertal
2021
Participation in the Structural Mission and the Expert Panel of the OECD Economic Survey Austria 2021
2021
Member of the jury of the research award of the FernUniversität Hagen
2021-
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony
2020-2021
Member of the Advisory Board of the Teaching Impact Map of the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
2020-
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute of the Federation for Quality Assurance in the Austrian School System (IQS)
2020-
Chairwoman of the Research and Science Council of Carinthia
2020-
Member of the scientific advisory board of the project "Further development of AHS" of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF)
2020 -
Member of the scientific advisory board of the project "Leistungsbeurteilungsverordnung Neu/Kompetenzraster" of the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research
2019-2020
Member of the evaluation panel of the "Instituts für Wissensmedien (IWM)" of the Leibniz Association
2019 -
Management Committee Member of COST Action CA18115 "Transnational Collaboration on Bullying, Migration and Integration at School Level"
2019 -
Management Committee Member of COST Action CA18123 "The Pan-European Family Support Research Network. A bottom-up, evidence-based and multidisciplinary approach"
2019 -
Vice Chair of the Austrian Society for Criminal Law and Criminology
2019-
Vice president of the Austrian Society of Criminology and Criminal Law
2019-
Member of the scientific advisory board of the Ecosocial Forum
2018
Member of the evaluation panel of the Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education (DIPF)
2017-2020
Member of the scientific advisory board of the bifie (Bundesinstitut für Forschung, Innovation und Entwicklung im Schulwesen)
since 2017
President of the scientific advisory board of the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation
2016-2020
Chairperson of the scientific advisory board of the Austrian Research Association
2015-2016
Jury Chairperson for the Franz-Emanuel-Weinert-Prize 2016 of the German Society for Psychology
since 2015
Member of the Board of Directors of the Global Implementation Initiative
2015-2019
Coordinating Lead Author for the International Panel on Social Progress
2014-2016
Jury Member for the Science Award, Upper Austria 2015
2014-2016
Member of the Editorial Board of the third Austrian National Report on Education
2014-2015
Member of the advisory board for the strategy formation of “Innovatives Wien 2020”
2014-2016
Member of the Austrian Council of Migration
since 2013
Jury Member for the Young Science Award of the Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy
since 2013
Member and deputy chairperson of the Advisory Board for Quality Management for Teachers’ Education in Austria
since 2013
Member of the Board of directors of the Austrian Society for Criminology
since 2012
Member of the International Research Network "Teacher learning – teacher competencies – teacher performance" of the World Education Research Association
2012-2019
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Foundation German Forum for Delinquency Prevention
2012-2018
Jury Member for the CORECHED-Prize for educational research, Switzerland
2012- 2013
Member of the Council for “PädagogInnenbildung NEU - Die Zukunft der Pädagogischen Berufe“
2012
Member of the scientific committee of the Young Science Award, Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy
2012-2017
Member of the board of directors of the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation
2011-2012
Member of the Editorial Board of the second Austrian National Report on Education
2010-2015
Member of the scientific committee for the funding initiative “Kompetenzmodellierung und -messung im tertiären Bildungssektor“, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany
2010-2014
President of the Austrian Society of Psychology
2010-2011
Scientific Advisor for Universities Austria (UNIKO), Austrian Universities of Applied Sciences (UAS) and the Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy to create a national qualification Framework
since 2010
Member of the Conseil Scientifique of the Luxembourgian Ministry of Education
2009-2011
Past-president of the European Society for Developmental Psychology (ESDP)
since 2008
Head of the Committee for Education and Apprenticeship, Austrian Research Association (ÖFG)
2008-2012
Member of the board of directors for research in Vocational and Educational Training of the Swiss Federal Office for Vocational and Educational Training and Technology (BBT)
2008
Expert on the topic “Does our educational system discriminate against girls” at the Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men of the Council of Europe in Paris
since 2008
Member of the scientific advisory board of the Austrian Research Association
2008-2012
Management Committee member of Autria for the COST Action IS0801 of the European Science Foundation on Cyberbullying: Coping with Negative and Enhancing Positive Uses of New Technologies, in Relationships in Educational Settings
2007-2009
President of the European Society for Developmental Psychology (ESDP)
2007-2009
Member of the Editorial Board of the first Austrian National Report on Education
2007-2008
Chair of the European Expert Panel “European Reference Index for the Humanities” for Psychology of the European Science Foundation
since 2007
Member and vice-chair of the board of directors of the University Wuppertal
since 2007
Vice-president of the Austrian Organization of University Professors
2006-2011
President elect of the European Society for Developmental Psychology (ESDP)
2006-2011
Member of the Initiative „Neues Lernen“, Private Foundation Köck
2005-2010
Member of the scientific committee of the Center for Higher Education Development and Quality Enhancement, University of Duisburg
2005-2007
Reviewer for the “Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft” (German Research Associations) for psychological Diagnosis in Educational Psychology
2005-2007
Member of the International Advisory Board of the Leadinghouse "Social Competencies" at the Institute of Business Education and Educational Management, University St. Gallen
2004-2005
Member of the task force “Empfehlungen für Rankings im Wissenschaftssystem” of the German Council of Science and Humanities
2004-2010
Member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Applied Developmental Science, University Jena
2004-2005
Member of the task force “Elite University” of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Research
2004
Reviewer for the evaluation of the German Institute for Psychology Information
2004
Reviewer for the Evaluation of the German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF)
2004
Reviewer for "Evaluation of Countermeasures" of the national research-programm about right-wing extremism, Swiss National Foundation
2003-2005
Member of the “Zukunftskommision” of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Research to develop a concept to reform the Austrian school System
2003-2005
Member of the committee “Neue Wege in der Medizinerausbildung”, Stifterverband Deutsche Wissenschaft
2003-2010
Member of the board of directors of the University of Hannover
2003-2011
President of the DeGEval (German Society for Evaluation)
2003-2005
Chairperson of the section “Methods and Evaluation of the German Society of Psychology” (DGPs)
2003
General rapporteur of the OECD/CERI regional seminar "Lebenslanges Lernen in der Wissensgesellschaft - Voraussetzungen und Rahmenbedingungen" in Vienna
2001-2003
Mentor in the EU-Mentoring Project, University of Vienna
2002-2003
Member of the founding convent of the University of Vienna accordin to the University Law 2002
2002-2005
Member of the admission office „Family and Work” of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Health and Women
1999-2011
Member of the Executive Committee, European Society for Developmental Psychology (ESDP)
1997-1999
Board Member of the Austrian Society for Psycholgoy (ÖFG)
1997-2004
Board Member of the Austrian Society for interdisciplinary family studies (ÖGIF)
1992-1995
Member of the Academic Senate, University of Vienna
1992-1995
Member of the Austrian steering group OECD/CERI/IHME
Editorials
- Co-editor: European Journal of Developmental Psychology (2003-2012)
- Co-editor: Zeitschrift für Evaluation (since 2003)
- Co-editor: Zeitschrift für Psychologie/ Journal of Psychology (since 2001)
- Co-editor: Newsletter Entwicklungspsychologie (1985-1988)
- Editorial Consultant: Zeitschrift für Bildungsforschung (since 2011)
- Editorial Consultant: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training (since 2008)
- Editorial Consultant: Diagnostica (since 2006)
- Editorial Consultant: Learning & Instruction (since 2005)
- Editorial Consultant: Psychologie in Erziehung und Unterricht (since 2003)
- Editorial Consultant: Zeitschrift für Pädagogische Psychologie (2002-2012)
- Editorial Consultant: Buchreihe Pädagogische Psychologie und Entwicklungspsychologie (since 2001)
- Editorial Consultant: European Psychologist (1997-2011)
- Editorial Consultant: High Ability Studies (1996-1998)