Ursula Staudinger

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Ursula Marie Staudinger (born April 3, 1959 in Nuremberg ) is a psychologist and gerontologist . She was Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and Professor of Psychology at Columbia University , New York. Staudinger has been the rector of the Technical University of Dresden (TU Dresden) since 2020 .

biography

Staudinger studied psychology from 1978 to 1984 at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and at the Clark University in Massachusetts . She carried out her dissertation at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (MPIB) in Berlin. He received his doctorate at the Free University of Berlin in 1988. Staudinger was then a research assistant at the Berlin Academy of Sciences until 1992 . She then returned to the MPIB as a project manager , where she worked until 1999. In 1997 she completed her habilitation in psychology at the Free University of Berlin . The time at the MPI was interrupted by a substitute professorship at the University of Halle-Wittenberg .

Staudinger worked from 1999 to 2001 as an associate professor at the TU Dresden. In 2000 she was visiting professor at the University of Florida . From 2001 to 2003 Staudinger was professor for developmental psychology of the life span at the TU Dresden. From May to July 2003 she was visiting professor at Stanford University . From 2003 to July 2013 she was professor and vice-president at Jacobs University Bremen , where she founded the Jacobs Center on Lifelong Learning and Institutional Development and headed it as dean. Between 2013 and 2017 Staudinger was founding director of the Columbia Aging Center at Columbia University, New York, and headed the associated International Longevity Center (ILC). She was appointed to the Robert N. Butler Endowed Professorship and Professor of Psychology. On March 17, 2020 she was elected rector of the TU Dresden and took over her office on August 18, 2020, succeeding Hans Müller-Steinhagen .

Ursula M. Staudinger has been Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Institute for Population Research since 2012 . She has been a member of the University Council of the Ruhr University Bochum since 2018 .

In 2014 she received the Braunschweig Research Prize . She was awarded the SENECA medal 2017 for her successful scientific work.

Work areas

Ursula M. Staudinger's areas of work include topics from the developmental psychology of the lifespan, such as potentials of lifelong development ( resilience and neural plasticity ), the development of insight into life, lifestyle and wisdom about the lifespan, aging and productivity, as well as intergenerational relationships. She is a member and spokesperson of the Scientific Commission on Demographic Change and was the spokesperson for the working group “ Aging in Germany ” (completed in 2009) and a member of the “ Future with Children ” working group (completed in 2012), which is run by the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina - National Academy of The sciences were initiated in order to advise politics with their opinions and recommendations. Staudinger was also the spokesperson for the Mastering Demographic Change in Europe working group (2014). The statement, signed jointly by eight European science academies and supported by ALLEA (All European Academies), formulates recommendations on how the opportunities of demographic change in Europe can be better used.

Functions and memberships

Publications (selection)

  • Paul B. Baltes , U. Staudinger: Interactive minds: life-span perspectives on the social foundation of cognition. Cambridge University Press, 1996, ISBN 0-521-48567-3 , limited preview in Google Book Search
  • U. Staudinger, U. Lindenberger : Understanding Human Development. Verlag Springer, 2003, ISBN limited preview in the Google book search.
  • LG Aspinwall, U. Staudinger: A psychology of human strengths. American Psychological Association, 2004, ISBN 1-55798-931-1
  • U. Staudinger, H. Häfner: What is age (ies)? Springer, 2007, ISBN 3-540-76710-X , limited preview in the Google book search
  • U. Staudinger, E.-M. Kessler: Intergenerational potential: Effects of social interaction between older people and adolescents. In: Psychology and Aging 22 , 2007, pp. 690-704
  • C. Voelcker-Rehage, B. Godde, UM Staudinger: Physical and motor fitness are both related to cognition in old age. In: European Journal of Neuroscience 31 , 2010, pp. 167-176
  • U. Staudinger, J. Glück : Psychological Wisdom Research: Commonalities and Differences in a Growing Field. In: Annual Review of Psychology , 62, 2011
  • A. Mühlig-Versen, CE Bowen, UM Staudinger: Personality plasticity in later adulthood: Contextual and personal resources are needed to increase openness to new experiences. In: Psychology & Aging , 27 (4), 2012, pp. 855-866.
  • EA Uglanova, UM Staudinger: Zooming in on life events: Is hedonic adaptation sensitive to the temporal distance to the event? In: Social Indicators Research , 111 (1), 2013, pp. 265–286.
  • V. Skirbekk, M. Stonawski, E. Bosang, UM Staudinger: The Flynn effect and population aging. In: Intelligence , 41 (3), 2013, pp. 169–177.
  • UM Staudinger: Images of aging: Outside and inside perspectives. In: Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics , 35 (1), 2015, pp. 187-210.
  • H. Heidemeier, UM Staudinger: Age differences in achievement goals and motivational characteristics of work in an aging workforce . In: Aging & Society , 35 (4), 2015, pp. 809-836. doi: 10.1017 / S0144686X13001098
  • S. Scheibe, G. Sheppes, UM Staudinger: Distract or reappraise? Age-related differences in emotion-regulation choice . In: Emotion , 15 (6), 2015, 677-681. doi: 10.1037 / a0039246
  • UM Staudinger, R. Finkelstein, E. Calvo, K. Sivaramakrishnan: A global view on the effect of work on health in later life . In: The Gerontologist , 56, 2016, pp. S281-S292. doi: 10.1093 / geront / gnw032
  • P. Wink, UM Staudinger: Wisdom and psychosocial functioning in later life . In: Journal of Personality , 84, 2016, pp. 306-318. doi: 10.1111 / jopy.12160
  • J. Oltmanns, B. Godde, A. Winneke, G. Richter, C. Niemann, C. Voelcker-Rehage, ..., UM Staudinger: Don't lose your brain at work - The role of recurrent novelty at work in cognitive and brain aging . In: Frontiers in Psychology , 8 (117), 2017, pp. 1–16. doi: 10.3389 / fpsyg.2017.00117
  • E. Bonsang, V. Skirbekk, UM Staudinger: As you sow, so shall you reap: Gender norms and late-life cognition . In: Psychological Science , 28 (9), 2017, pp. 1201-1213. doi: 10.1177 / 0956797617708634
  • E. Calvo, I. Madero-Cabib, UM Staudinger: Retirement sequences of older Americans: Moderately destandardized and highly stratified across gender, class, and race . In: Gerontologist , 00 (00), 2017, pp. 1-11. doi: 10.1093 / geront / gnx052
  • A. Mergenthaler, I. Sackreuther, UM Staudinger: Productive activity patterns among 60-70-year-old retirees in Germany . In: Aging & Society , 2018, pp. 1–30. doi: 10.1017 / S0144686X17001404
  • P. Hessel, JM Kinge, V. Skirbekk, UM Staudinger: Trends and determinants of the Flynn effect in cognitive functioning among older individuals in 10 European countries . In: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health , 2018, pp. 1–7. doi: 10.1136 / jech-2017-209979
  • UM Staudinger: The positive plasticity of adult development: Potential for the 21st century . American Psychologist, 2020.

Web links

Commons : Ursula Staudinger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ aging.columbia.edu
  2. ↑ Prof. Dr. Ursula Staudinger. ( Memento from June 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Einstein Foundation Berlin , accessed on September 1, 2010
  3. ^ Announcement by Jacobs University ( memento of September 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), May 10, 2013
  4. ↑ Columbia University announcement , May 23, 2013
  5. ^ Professor Ursula M. Staudinger elected rector of the TU Dresden. Retrieved March 17, 2020 .
  6. ↑ New Rector wants to develop TU Dresden into a global university . mdr.de, August 17, 2020.
  7. ↑ uni.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
  8. ↑ industrie-club.de
  9. ↑ Prof. Dr. Ursula M. Staudinger - Age researcher, Jacobs University Bremen. BR-alpha , dated August 5, 2010
  10. ↑ Prof. Dr. Ursula M. Staudinger. ( Memento from June 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Website of the German Society for Psychology, accessed on September 1, 2010
  11. ↑ leopoldina.org
  12. ↑ Mastering Demographic Change in Europe.
  13. ↑ leopoldina.org
  14. ↑ Member entry of Ursula M. Staudinger (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 22, 2016.
  15. ↑ bib-demografie.de ( Memento of March 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) New chairman of the board of trustees of the BiB  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ), July 8, 2013@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bib-demografie.de
  16. ↑ Directory of members: Ursula Marie Staudinger. Academia Europaea, accessed October 3, 2017 .
  17. ↑ ae-info.org
  18. ↑ uni.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
personal data
SURNAME Staudinger, Ursula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Staudinger, Ursula Marie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist and aging researcher
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg