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 since 2002. From 2018 to 2021, he was the Vice President of Research and Early-Career Researchers.
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). |
Since April 2002 | 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 |
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 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: 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.