Prof. Dr. Lisa Handke

Assistant Professorship of Business Psychology

Curriculum vitae

Lisa Handke is Assistant Professor for Business Psychology in the field “Future of Work” at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. Her research focuses on how people adapt to virtual work and its challenges. This includes topics such as geographically dispersed teamwork, online meetings, and designing mobile or hybrid work.

From 2009 to 2015, she studied psychology at Freie Universität Berlin, Université de Bordeaux in France, and Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. In 2019, she completed her PhD in Industrial and Organizational Psychology at TU Braunschweig. As a research associate, she worked at Freie Universität Berlin (2020-2023) and TU Braunschweig (2015-2020) and was a visiting scholar at the Center for Transformative Work Design in Perth, Australia (2018) as well as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Calgary in Canada (2019-2020). In 2018, she received TU Braunschweig’s university-wide teaching award for the best seminar.

In 2021, her dissertation was awarded a prize by the Division of Work, Organizational, and Business Psychology of the German Psychological Society (DGPs). She is an editorial board member as well as ad hoc reviewer for various national and international journals and was elected as the early career researchers’ representative of the Work, Organizational, and Business Psychology Division in 2022.

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