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Dr. Stefan Michel,

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Contact

Phone
+41 62 957 23 57
E-Mail
stefan.michel@fhnw.ch

Address

FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
School of Applied Psychology
Riggenbachstrasse 16
4600 Olten

Activities 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

Areas of Expertise

  • Aviation security and human factors
  • Integrating humans and technology
  • Performance measurement and evaluation studies
  • Perception, awareness and cognition

Lecturing and Applied Research

Lecturing

Teaching relating to training

  • Module entitled “Proseminar – scientific writing and presenting scientific work”
  • Module entitled “Experimental psychology practical (ExPra)”
  • Module entitled “Workshop work”
  • Module entitled “Socio-technical systems” with Prof. A. Schwaninger
  • Supervision of Bachelor thesis
  • Supervision of Master thesis
  • Supervision of project work
  • Supervision of semester thesis

Teaching relating to continuing education

  • Programme Head for the CAS MAS-Thesis
  • Module entitled “General psychology” as part of the CAS Grundwissen Psychologie
  • Module entitled “General psychology” as part of the MAS Berufs-, Studien- und Laufbahnberatung
  • Expert seminar entitled "Einführung ins wissenschaftliche Schreiben"
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

Profile

Career to date

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

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 Head for the CAS Master Thesis and Process Integration at the FHNW School of Applied Psychology and various teaching activities relating to continuing education and training since 2016.

Publications, Projects and Presentations

Institute Humans in Complex Systems

Automation, digitalisation and technical networking present great opportunities but also challenges for the complex interplay between humans, technology and organisations.

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