Prof. Dr. Jutta Mata is Professor of Health Psychology and associate researcher of the Mannheim Center for European Social Research, at the University of Mannheim. Jutta Mata is also an associate researcher at the Center of Adaptive Rationality at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. She is a member of the “People, Climate, Sustainability” interest group of the German Psychological Society (DGPs), member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) and member of the board of trustees of the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences GESIS. She is the chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Since 2024 she has been Vice-President for Research and Career Paths in Academia at the University of Mannheim.