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On July 23, Ursula M. Staudinger, Jacobs University Vice President and Dean of the Jacobs Center on Lifelong Learning and Institutional Development, was elected as the new president of the German Psychological Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie, DGPs) and will act in this position for the next two years. Prof. Staudinger, who was the society’s vice president for the past two years, succeeds Prof. Dr. Marcus Hasselhorn in the presidency. The election took place during the 46th DGPs congress, which this year was part of the 29th International Congress of Psychology in Berlin from July 20-25, 2008.
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As president of DGPs, Staudinger aims at further advancing psychology as a scientific field, which especially can provide solutions for national as well as global societal challenges such as climate or demographic change. On this note Staudinger wants to promote DGPs’ networking with international associations for psychology as well as with other major national and international science associations. Another focus of Prof. Staudinger’s presidency will be the encouragement of junior scientists to play a more active role in the processes of societal change as well as their support regarding international competitiveness.
Ursula M. Staudinger held a professorship in Lifespan Developmental Psychology at Dresden University of Technology from 1999 to 2003. Previously, she was a Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and at the Academy of Sciences in Berlin. Since fall 2003 she is Jacobs University Vice President and Dean of the Jacobs Center on Lifelong Learning and Institutional Development. In 2007 she became Vice President of the German Academy of Sciences Leoplodina, which has become Germany’s national science academy this year. A sought expert for lifespan psychology and research on aging Staudinger compiled various reports for federal government committees and was part of the European expert panel on the UN’s International Plan on Ageing. Additionally she acts in the editorial boards of Psychology and Aging, and Psychologie in Erziehung und Unterricht.
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German Psychological Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie, DGPs) |
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The German Psychological Society is a non-profit association of German-speaking psychologists engaged in academic research and teaching. Its goal is to advance and expand scientific psychology. Based in Göttingen it currently has some 2600 members. It focuses on furthering psychological research by fostering communication between and within the subdisciplines of psychology, supporting psychological and interdisciplinary research programs, promoting publications within the field, furthering psychology in universities along with other research, educational and occupational institutions, and by protecting and enhancing the status and standards of psychology, amongst many other activities.
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