Profile
Activity at FHNW
- Research scientist and lecturer at the Institute Human in Complex Systems at the FHNW School of Applied Psychology
- Project Manager on various research and service projects
Lecturing
Teaching relating to training
- Module entitled “Proseminar – scientific writing and presenting scientific work”
- Module entitled “Experimental psychology practical (ExPra)”
- Module entitled “Workshop work”
- Teaching in the MSc Human-Centered Digital Innovation on academic writing and research skills
- Supervision of Bachelor thesis
- Supervision of Master thesis
- Supervision of project work
- Supervision of semester thesis
Teaching relating to continuing education
- Programme director for the CAS Basic Knowledge of Psychology
- Programme director for the DAS Applied Psychology for the World of Work
- Programme director for the MAS Applied Psychology for the World of Work
- Programme director for the specialist seminar “Introduction to Academic Writing and Research Skills”
- Teaching in the CAS Basic Knowledge of Psychology in “General Psychology”
- Teaching in the MAS Applied Psychology for the World of Work in modules on academic writing, research skills and quantitative methods
- Teaching in the MAS Business Psychology in modules on academic writing, research skills and quantitative methods
Key areas of expertise
- Aviation security and human factors
- Integrating humans and technology
- Performance measurement and evaluation studies
- Perception, awareness and cognition
- AI in Higher Education
- Academic Writing and Research Skills
Applied research and development
- Performance measurement
- Security and human factors
- Evaluation of detection technologies
- Computer-based training and performance measurement tests
- Usability and eye tracking
- Interaction between humans and technology
- Cognitive and computational modelling
- Perception, awareness and cognition
Career
Professional experience
- Research Associate and Lecturer at the FHNW School of Applied Psychology since August 2008
- August 2004 to August 2008: doctoral student at the University of Zurich
- January 2002 to July 2004: Research Assistant in Applied Psychological Science Solutions (APSS GmbH)
- January 2003 to January 2004: Internship at Applied Behaviour Analysis
- 2003: Internship at the University of Dundee in Scotland
Stefan Michel, Dr. phil.
Degree in psychology, neuropsychology and psychopathology in children and adolescents at the University of Zurich. Scientific research activities as part of a dissertation at the University of Zurich and at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen. Scientific teaching activities at the University of Zurich and at the FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland. Research Associate and Lecturer at the Institute Humans in Complex Systems at the FHNW School of Applied Psychology since 2008. Programme director of various continuing education programmes at the FHNW School of Applied Psychology and various teaching activities relating to continuing education and higher education since 2016.
Education
Doctorate at the University of Zurich under Prof. Wolfgang Marx
Degree in psychology, neuropsychology and psychopathology in children and adolescents at the University of Zurich
Institute Humans in Complex Systems
Institutional Repository FHNW (IRF)

