Team
Dr. J. Lukas Thürmer
Head of the Group
Lukas Thürmer investigates on how teams reach their goals in political and intercultural contexts. His work evolved around if-then planning with collective implementation intentions. More recently, Lukas started investigating the role of criticism in group goal progress and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship allowed him to study reactions low performers in teams. When asked, Lukas is always happy to share his research with the public, for example through the FÄKT campaign or on SciLog.
Dr. Emma Halfmann (on parental leave)
PostDoc
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1494
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Dr. Emma Halfmann received her PhD from the Justus Liebig University in Giessen (Germany) on the effects of psychophysiological impairments (e.g. lack of sleep) on decisions and behaviour in a social context, such as dyadic negotiations. Other research interests include problem solving and decision-making in teams, reactions to norm breaches and intergroup processes.
Dr. Kaiyuan Chen
PostDoc
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2719-5229
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Kaiyuan (KY/Kevin) Chen received his PhD degree in psychology at Claremont Graduate University in May, 2024. He is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg. His research interests include the role of self in sense-making, well-being, collective action and intergroup dynamics.
Jeremias Braid, MSc
Doctoral Candidate
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6685-1604
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Jeremias Braid completed both his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Psychology at the University of Salzburg and has been a doctoral candidate at the Department of Psychology since summer 2023. Since March 2024, he has been working as a project assistant in the PIP team, where he conducts research on topics at the intersection of sport and social psychology. His research interests include behavior in competitive sports, group processes and performance in football, as well as reactions to performance deviants and critics in sport and performance contexts. In addition to his academic work, Jeremias Braid also practices as an applied sport psychologist.
Jakob Reichert
Doctoral Candidate
After completing his degrees in Political Science (BA) and Psychology (MSc), Jakob Reichert’s current PhD project examines psychological group processes underlying Democratic Backsliding and elaborates a political-psychological framework of the democratic process.
Manuela A. Wagner, MSc.
Doctoral Candidate
Manuela A. Wagner holds a high interest in how cultural aspects influence behavioural aspects. Currently, she focusses in her research on investigating the role of criticism in group goal progress in an international context. She is a doctoral candidate at the Paris Lodron University in Salzburg.
Julia Prohaska, BSc, BSSc
Julia Prohaska is a Master’s student in Psychology at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg. As part of her work with the PIP team, she is particularly interested in group processes in intercultural contexts. She wrote her Bachelor’s thesis in cooperation with a research team in Madrid, examining the emotion concept of compassion in an intercultural comparison.
Tanja
Zschieschang
Tanja Zschieschang is a Master’s student at the Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg, where she also completed her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology. Her research interests focus primarily on psychological phenomena in group processes, particularly on how individuals handle criticism in high-performance contexts.
Alumni
- Dr. Oleksandra Loshenko
- Betül Kurban
- Theresa Sünkel
- Teresa Rüschenschmidt
- Nagihan Özman, MA
