Three Junior professorships for research at ZPID

In October and November 2024, the three new researchers have been jointly appointed as junior professors with tenure track by the Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID) and Trier University. Marlene Altenmüller is Junior Professor of Science Acceptance, Kinga Maria Bierwiaczonek is Junior Professor of Psychological Metascience and Frederic Hopp is Junior Professor of Big Data in Psychology.

Marlene Altenmüller received her doctorate in psychology from Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) München in 2022 and was postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Social Psychology there until she moved to Trier. She studied psychology, art history, and geography at the Philipps University of Marburg. Her research interests include trust in science, science reception, and science communication, meta-science with a focus on social processes within science, psychology of art reception and the museum experience, and social justice.

Kinga Bierwiaczonek completed her Cotutelle PhD at the Free University Amsterdam and the ISCTE - University Institute Lisbon in 2018/2019. Since 2020 she has been working as a researcher at the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway. In 2023/24 she was a visiting scholar at the Meta-Research and Innovation Center at Stanford University, USA. Her research interests include meta-analysis, metascience, conspiracy beliefs, intergroup relations, and acculturation.

Frederic Hopp was Assistant Professor at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research at the University of Amsterdam from 2021 to 2024. Before, he completed his PhD 2021 in Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He studied Communication at both the University of California, and the University of Mannheim. His research interests include moral psychology, NeuroAI, natural language processing, and deep neural networks.