Damian Läge

Damian Läge (born June 29, 1961 in Osnabrück ) is a German psychologist and philosopher ; he researches and teaches as a professor at the University of Zurich .

education and profession

After graduating from high school Carolinum in Osnabrück, Läge studied philosophy at the Munich School of Philosophy from 1981 and psychology at Munich from 1982 . He completed his studies in philosophy in 1986 as a master's degree, and in 1989 in psychology with a diploma . The Hanns Seidel Foundation supported Läge's training with a scholarship .

In 1993 received his doctorate at Läge Wolfgang Marx with a work for playback of subjective perception policy related to Dr. phil. In 1994 he joined Wolfgang Marx as senior assistant at the University of Zurich; There he completed his habilitation in 2001 with the thesis "Similarity-based diagnostics of subject knowledge" in the subject of psychology. This was followed by six and a half years as an assistant professor at the University of Zurich as head of a research group for applied cognitive psychology. Läge has continued his work as adjunct professor since 2009 .

Research interests

• Measurement methods for business psychology , especially ipsative measurement methods
• Knowledge diagnostics and its application for e-learning programs
• Creation of cognitive maps originating from and for use in all areas of applied psychology
• Further development of methods of multidimensional scaling

Fonts (selection)

• On the dimensionality of the subjective structure of political landscapes . Dissertation at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, 1993
• The ideological ring, Hogrefe, Göttingen 1995, ISBN 3-8017-0622-2 (with Wolfgang Marx)
• Similarity-based diagnostics of specialist knowledge . Habilitation thesis at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Zurich, 2001
• Professional transitions. Basics for professional, academic and career advice , Lit, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-8258-0536-4 (with Andreas Hirschi)

Web links

• Literature by and about Damian Läge in the catalog of the German National Library
• Applied Cognitive Psychology - Damian Läge, Prof. Dr. on the website of the University of Zurich. ( CV PDF 2014 )