• Managing virtual teams 
• Motivation gains in groups
• Electronic Human Resource Management 
• Voluntary engagement in Open Source (e.g. Linux) and Open Content (e.g. Wikipedia) projects
• Work motivation and job satisfaction across the lifespan
• Cooperation in social conflicts (social dilemma) 
• Affect and social behavior in organizations 
• Priming effects on social behavior 

Publications

 Publication list

 Apr 2008 - today
 Professor of organisational and business psychology at the University of Münster 

Apr 2004 - Mar 2008
Professor of work and organisational psychology at the University of Würzburg

Jun 2002
Habilitation at the University of Kiel

Sep 1998 - Mar 2004
Assistant professor at the University of Kiel

Apr 1997 - Aug 1998
Visiting assistant professor at the Michigan State University 

Jun 1995 - Mar 1997
Research associate at the University of Giessen

1995 
Ph.D. at the University of Heidelberg 

1991
Diploma in psychology at the University of Giessen 

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie e.V. (DGPs)
• Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP)
• Society of Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)
• Academy of Management (AOM)
• European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP)
• European Association of Experimental Social Psychology (EAESP)