Prof. Dr. Tanja Manser

    Activities at FHNW

    Key competencies

    • Teamwork and leadership
    • Coordination and communication in High Responsibility Teams
    • Health and safety in complex work environments
    • Patient Safety
    • Organizational Climate

    Profile

    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

    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)

    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
  • FHNW Campus Olten

    FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland

    Riggenbachstrasse 16

    4600 Olten