Prof. Dr. Andreas Zick

Short biography Prof. Dr Andreas Zick

Andreas Zick is Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence (IKG), Professor of Socialisation and Conflict Research at the Faculty of Education at Bielefeld University Professor and Scientific Director of the Conflict Academy, ConflictA, founded in April 2023 at Bielefeld University.

After studying psychology and Protestant theology at the Ruhr University in Bochum, Andreas Zick completed his doctorate at the Philipps University in Marburg in 1996 and habilitated in psychology at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg in 2008. His habilitation was dedicated to the "psychology of acculturation", i.e. the question of how people acquire new cultural environments and experience and overcome conflicts in the process. Andreas Zick was appointed Professor of Socialisation and Conflict Research at Bielefeld University in 2008. Since 2013, he has headed the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence (IKG), an institution of Bielefeld University. In interdisciplinary research groups, the IKG investigates the foundations, phenomena and effects of intra-societal conflicts and violence. This also includes the prevention of extremism and radicalisation.

In 2016, Andreas Zick received the Communicator Award of the Donors' Association for the Promotion of Sciences and Humanities in Germany and the German Research Foundation (DFG) and in 2022 the Nevitt Sanford Life-Time Award for Political Psychology of the International Society for Political Psychology.

since 4/2013
Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research of Conflict & Violence (IKG)
www.uni-bielefeld.de/ikg

since 4/2008
Professor for Socialization and Conflict Research
at the Faculty of Educational Science at Bielefeld University

09/2007-03/2008
Assistant Professor for Social Psychology at University of Jena

04/2006-03/2007
Assistant Professor for Social Psychology at Technical University of Dresden

09/2005-03/2006
Scientific Research Assistant at Bielefeld University
Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence
Management of the Project on “Group-focused Enmity in Europe”

1999-08/2005
Assistant Professor for Social and Organizational Psychology
Faculty of Social Psychology, University of Wuppertal, Germany

1990-1998
Scientific Research Assistant in Social and Organizational Psychology
Faculty of Social Psychology, University of Wuppertal, Germany

1988-1989
Research Assistant for Social Psychology,
Faculty of Social Psychology, University of Bochum, Germany

2009
Habilitation (venia legendi in Psychology) at Martin-Luther Universitaet Halle-Wittenberg; Title of the habilitation paper: Sozialpsychologie der Akkulturation - Neufassung eines Forschungsbereiches / Social Psychology of Acculturation - New Formulation of a Field of Research

1996
Doctor of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Social Psychology,
Phillips University Marburg, Germany
Thesis title: Vorurteile und Rassismus - eine sozialpsychologische Analyse
Grade: “mit Auszeichnung ”

1988
Diploma of Psychology, University of Bochum, Germany
Thesis title: Ideology as an Intergroup Phenomenon: Studies on Attitude
Change in the Context of Groups; final result: 1.0 (maximum)

1984
Pre-Examination in Protestant Theology, University of Bochum

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