Dr. Mattis Geiger

mattis.geiger@bnitm.de

Dr. Mattis Geiger

Background

Mattis Geiger is a post-doctoral researcher interested in psychological assessment, individual differences, and measurement, specifically regarding social traits, decision making, behaviour, and abilities. He received the Dr.rer.nat. in 2021 (Thesis: Out-of-the-Box Measurement Approaches for Complex Interpersonal Traits) and his M.Sc. in 2015 (Thesis: Interpersonal Abilities and the Ability to Control Facial Expressions at Pains) from Ulm University. 

His current research focuses on the readiness to act against climate chance, vaccination readiniess, and antibiotics use related behaviour and knowledge, pain-incentivized social dilemmas, replicability of health communication interventions, and the measurement of interpersonal abilities. He joined Cornelia Betsch's Health Communication working group at the Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg in 2022, where he is leading the establishment of research networks in the Global South (Zanzibar, Gabon, Peru) and builds capacities in psychological assessement that offer a unique opportunity for cross-cultural research.

Areas of expertise: psychology, measurement, individual differences, emotion, abilities

Curriculum Vitae

Academic career

  • 2015 – 2021          Dissertation in Psychology (Dr.rer.nat), Ulm University
  • 2013 – 2015          Master of Science in Psychology, Ulm University
  • 2010 – 2013          Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Ulm University

Employment

  • 2022 – present     Post-doctoral research associate, Health Communication, Department of Implementation Research, Bernard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg
  • 2015 – 2022           Research assistant, Dept. for Individual Differences and Psychological Assessment, Institute for Psychology and Education, Ulm University
  • 2014                       Visiting Scholar and Consultant at Educational Testing Services (ETS), Department Research and Development in Princeton, New Jersey, USA

Publications