Head of Department
Modern working conditions are characterised by a high degree of cognitive challenges, which include areas such as lifelong learning, flexibility of behavioural control, problem-solving ability, but also emotional components. Our research aims to better understand the physiological and psychological factors influencing these processes in both basic and applied areas, including real working conditions. This enables us to identify favourable and unfavourable working conditions and to modify them in a targeted manner in order to improve performance, work motivation and satisfaction as well as to prevent work-related illnesses. For this purpose, a broad arsenal of psychological and neuroscientific methods is available, ranging from experimental psychology to imaging and brain stimulation methods to animal laboratories in the field of neuroscience.