Education

 

1995 Diploma in Psychology, University of Bielefeld (with honors)

 

1999 Ph.D. in Psychology, University of Bielefeld (summa cum laude)
Validität von Fremdbeurteilungen (validity of stranger ratings)

 

2003 Habilitation in Psychology, University of Bielefeld

 

 

 

Career / Employment

1995 - 1997 Research Assistant in Individual Differences Psychology (BATIIa), Dept of Psychology, University of Bielefeld (DFG-Project „Quellen interindividueller Differenzen in Persönlichkeits-, Temperaments- und Intelligenzmerkmalen“; AZ An 106/13-1) [DFG-Project „Sources of individual differencens in measures of personality, temperament, and intelligence“)

1997 Research visit: Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London (UK) (R. Plomin)

1997 - 2000 Deputyship of HD Dr. R. Riemann, Dept of Psychology, University of Bielefeld; Coordination of DFG-Project AZ An 106/13-2

2000 - 2001 Research Assistant in Individual Differences Psychology (C1), Dept of Psychology, University of Bielefeld

2001 - 2002 Research stay / Post-doctoral Research Assistant: Social Genetic Developmental Psychiatric Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry (IoP), London (UK) (R. Plomin)

2002 - 2003 Research Assistant (C1) in Individual Differences Psychology (C1), Dept of Psychology, University of Bielefeld

2004 Senior Research Assistant in Individual Differences Psychology (C2), Dept of Psychology, University of Bielefeld

2004 Full Professor of Psychology (C3), Saarland University, Saarbrucken

2006 Offer of a Full Professorship (Individual Differences & Psychodiagnostics), Dept of Psychology, University of Heidelberg (refused)

2006 Offer of a Full Professorship (Individual Differences & Psychodiagnostics), Dept of Psychology, University of Bielefeld (refused)

2006 - Full Professor of Psychology (W3), Saarland University, Saarbrucken

Oct 2006–Sep 2007 Managing Director, Psychology Department, Saarland University, Saarbrucken

 

 

Selected Honors and Awards

2004 Editor’s Award for the research article “Genetic and Environmental Mediation of the Relationship Between Language and Nonverbal Impairment in 4-Year Old Twins” (Viding, Price, Spinath, Bishop, Dale, & Plomin, 2003) in the language section of the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, ASHA; awarded at the ASHA Convention 2004, Philadelphia, USA, 18-20 Nov 2004)

2004 J. L. Fuller, & J. P. Scott Memorial Award 2004 of the Behavior Genetics Association (BGA) for Early Career Contributions (awarded at the 34^th BGA meeting, Aix-en-Provence, FRA, 27-30 Jun 2004)

2005 Early Career Development Award 2005 of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID). Awarded at the 12^th Biennial ISSID meeting, Adelaide, AUS, 18-22 Jul 2005)

 

 

Active Memberships

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs) [German Psychological Society]

International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID)

 

 

Past Memberships

Behavior Genetics Association (BGA)

European Association of Personality Psychology (EAPP)

International Society for Intelligence Research (ISIR)

 

 

Specialization / Research Interests

Behavior genetic studies on intelligence and personality; determinants of school success; stability and change in intelligence and personality characteristics; multimodal assessment of behavior; validity of psychodiagnostics in basic and applied fields

 

 

Reviewer Activity

Intelligence (Editorial Board member), Personality And Individual Differences (Editorial Board), Journal of Child Psychology, Psychiatry and allied disciplines (Advisory Board Member), European Journal of Personality (Consultant Editor), German Research Foundation (DFG)

Ad-hoc reviews for:

Advances in Personality Psychology; Behavior Genetics; Diagnostica; European Journal of Personality (EJP); European Journal of Psychological Assessment (EJPA); Intelligence; Journal of Child Psychology, Psychiatry and allied disciplines (JCPP); Journal of Individual Differences (JID); Journal of Personality (JOP); Journal of Personality Disorders; Journal of Research in Personality; Journal of Social and Personal Relationships (JSPR); Molecular Psychiatry; Neuroscience Letters; Psychologische Rundschau; Scientific Studies of Reading; Zeitschrift für Differentielle Psychologie und Diagnostische Psychologie (ZDDP)

Sekretariat

Frau Sylvia Monzon