Activities at FHNW
- Director FHNW School of Applied Psychology
- Member Board of Directors FHNW
- FHNW site manager Solothurn/Olten
Key competencies
- Teamwork and leadership
- Coordination and communication in High Responsibility Teams
- Health and safety in complex work environments
- Patient Safety
- Organizational Climate
Profile
CV
since 01/2018
Head of School (Director), School of Applied Psychology FHNW
since 01/2024
Board Member Commission for Psychology Professions, Federal Office of Public Health
since 03/2023
Foreign Adjunct Professor, Karolinska Institutet
01/2019–10/2021
Member of the ENSI Board, Vice-president 2020
04/2019-04/2020
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board on safety and quality of care, Federal Office of Public Health
01/2016–12/2018
Adjunct Professor for Patient Safety; Centre for Risk Management and Societal Safety; Department of Health Studies; University Stavanger, Norway
04/2014–11/2017
Director Institute for Patient Safety and (since 06/2014) Full Professor for Patient Safety, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Germany
12/2010–03/2014
Associate Professor for Industrial Psychology and Human Factors (Swiss National Science Foundation-Professorship), Department of Psychology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
10/2009–09/2010
Senior Research Fellow; Marie-Curie Intra-European Fellowship; Industrial Psychology Research Centre; School of Psychology; University of Aberdeen, Scotland
01/2008–06/2012
Committee Member, Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Commission (KNS), Brugg, Switzerland
08/2003–10/2005
Post-doctoral Fellow; Department of Anesthesia; School of Medicine; Stanford University and VA Palo Alto, USA
Research positions at ETH Zurich
1998–2003 Researcher, Institute of Work Psychology, Department of Management and Production Science; 2005–2008 Senior Researcher and 2008–2009 Senior Lecturer Center for Organizational and Occupational Sciences, Department of Management, Technology and Economics
Education
2019
Higher Education Management
2017
TeamSTEPPS Master Trainer, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
2014
Diploma of Advanced Studies (DAS) Didactics in Higher Education, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
2014
Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Management, University of Bern, Switzerland
2008
Habilitation in Psychology; ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2002
Ph.D. in Psychology; University of Zurich, Switzerland
Studies of Psychology and Business Administration, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany (Diploma in Psychology 1998)
Memberships and awards
Editorial boards
- BMJ Open since 2021
- Ergonomics since 2022
Scientific and professional societies
- Board member Swiss Psychological Society (SGP) since 2019
- Chairperson Commission for Studies in Psychology at Swiss Universities (KPSYCH) since 2024; Board member since 2020
- Chairperson Applied Psychology Conference since 2024; Board member since 2018
- Swiss Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SGAOP)
- German Psychological Society (DGPs); Section Work and Organisational Psychology
- Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES)
Awards
- Wilfried-Lorenz-Heath Services Research Award, German Network Health Services (DNVF) together with Saskia Huckels-Baumgart 2015
- Honorary Member of the Belgian Society of Anesthesia and Resuscitation since 2015
