Professor Dr. Edgar Erdfelder was born in 1953 in Göttingen, Germany. After his studies of Psychology, German Literature, and History at Georg-August University in his hometown (1974-1980), he became Research Assistant and Instructor at Trier University in 1981. Later on he proceeded as a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the Psychological Institute of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University Bonn (1984-2001). In 2001 he was appointed as Associate Professor of Psychological Methods at the Department of Psychology of Justus-Liebig University Gießen before he moved to Mannheim in the subsequent year.
Professor Dr. Edgar Erdfelder has been a Full Professor of Psychology and Head of the Department Psychology III (Cognitive Psychology and Individual Differences) at the University of Mannheim from 2002 to 2022 and a Senior Professor of Cognitive Psychology since 2022. From 2018 to 2021, he was the Vice President of Research and Early-Career Researchers.
Since 2022 | Senior Professor of Cognitive Psychology |
2007 | Offer of the Professorship of Applied Methods of Psychology at the University of Vienna, Austria (declined). |
2004 | Offer of the Chair of Experimental Psychology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (declined). |
2002–2022 | Professor of Psychology, Chair for Cognitive Psychology and Individual Differences (Psychology III), University of Mannheim, Germany. |
2001–2002 | Professor of Quantitative Psychology, Department of Psychology, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany. |
1984-2001 | Lecturer (1984-1987) and Senior Lecturer (1987-2001), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany. |
1981-1984 | Research Assistant and Instructor, Department of Psychology, Trier University, Germany. |
2000 | Post-doctoral lecturer qualification in Psychology, School of Philosophy, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, Germany. |
1986 | Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D.), Department of Psychology, University of Trier, Germany. |
1980 | Diploma (M.Sc.) in Psychology, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen. |
1974-1980 | Studies of Psychology, German Literature, Linguistics, and History, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen. |
1972-1974 | Alternative National Service (Community Service), Psychiatric Hospital, Göttingen. |
1965-1972 | Felix-Klein-Gymnasium (High school), Göttingen, Germany |
Since 2022 | Chairperson of the Wilhelm Wundt Society |
2018–2021 | Vice President of Research and Early-Career Researchers |
2017–2018 | Spokesperson of the “DFG Graduiertenkolleg 2277 Statistical Modeling in Psychology” (SMiP) |
2016–2019 | Dean of the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences (GESS), University of Mannheim |
2016–2019 | Academic Director of the Center of Doctoral Studies in Social and Behavioral Sciences (CDSS), University of Mannheim |
2012–2016 | Spokesperson of the Review Panel Psychology of the “Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)” |
2008–2016 | Member of the Review Panel Psychology of the “Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)” |
2006–2013 | Member of Curatorship of the “Zentrum für psychologische Information und Dokumentation (ZPID)” |
2004–2011 | Dean of Education for the “Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaften” (School of Social Sciences) at the University of Mannheim |
2004–2006 | Member of the Executive Committee of the “Föderation Deutscher Psychologenvereinigungen” |
2004–2006 | Secretary of the Executive Committee of the “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs)” (German Psychological Society) |
2004–2006 | Spokesperson of the Department of Psychology at the University of Mannheim, Germany |
Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science; American Statistician; Behavior Research Methods / Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers; Biological Rhythm Research; Brain and Behavior; Brain and Cognition; British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology; British Journal of Psychology; British Journal of Social Psychology; Cognition; Cognition and Emotion; Cognitive Processing; Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications; Cognitive Science; Consciousness and Cognition; Communications in Statistics – Theory and Methods; Computational Brain & Behavior; Computers in Biology and Medicine; Diagnostica; E-Biomedicine; Empirische Pädagogik; European Journal of Cognitive Psychology; European Journal of Social Psychology; Experimental Psychology; Frontiers in Psychology, Section Cognitive Science; Frontiers in Psychology, Section Quantitative Psychology and Measurement; Human Movement Science; Information Sciences; Journal of Computational Science; Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied; Journal of Experimental Psychology: General; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition; Journal of Mathematical Psychology; Journal of Psychosomatic Research; Judgment and Decision Making; Marine Pollution Bulletin; Mathematics; Memory; Memory & Cognition; Methodology; Methodika; Methods of Psychological Research – online; Multivariate Behavioral Research; Neuroscience Letters; New Ideas in Psychology; Perspectives on Psychological Science; PLOS Computational Biology; PLOS ONE; Psychiatry Research; Psychological Methods; Psychological Research; Psychological Review; Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling; Psychologische Beiträge; Psychologische Rundschau; Psychology Science/
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Bonn; Baden-Württemberg Stiftung; Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD); Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Bonn; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie e.V. (DGPs); Deutsch-Israelische Stiftung für Wissenschaftliche Forschung und Entwicklung (GIF), Jerusalem, Israel; European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS), Paris, Frankreich; European Research Council (ERC), European Commission, Brussels, Belgium; Fachgruppe Allgemeine Psychologie in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie e.V. (DGPs); Fachgruppe Methoden & Evaluation in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie e.V. (DGPs); Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg (FNR), Luxembourg; Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF), Wien, Österreich; Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Jerusalem, Israel; Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (IIAS), Jerusalem, Israel; Marsden Fund, Wellington, New Zealand; Mercator Research Center Ruhr (MERCUR); Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia; National Science Centre, Kraków, Poland; National Science Foundation (NSF), Washington D.C., USA; Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Bern, Schweiz; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Ottawa, ON, Canada; Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Bonn; VolkswagenStiftung, Hannover.