Rolf van Dick
Rolf van Dick (born 5 April 1967 in Duisburg) is a social psychologist in Germany. Life. Van Dick graduated in psychology at the Philipps-University Marburg, Germany. He earned his Ph.D. in 1999 from Philipps-University Marburg, supervised by Ulrich Wagner. From 1995 to 2002, he was working as a lecturer and assistant professor at the Philipps-University Marburg. From 2003 to 2006, he worked at Aston University, Birmingham, England, first as a senior lecturer, and from 2005 to 2007 as a full professor and chair of Social Psychology and Organizational Behavior. Since 2006, Van Dick has  held the chair for Social Psychology at the Institute for Psychology at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (Germany) and also is teaching at Goethe Business School, Frankfurt. He has been a visiting professor in Beijing (Renmin University, 2016) and Shanghai (Jiao Tong University, 2016), Kathmandu (Nepal, 2009), Rhodes (University of the Aegean, Greece, 2002) and at the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, Alabama USA in 2001). At Goethe University, he was Director of the Institute of Psychology, and from 2011 to 2015 and again 2017/18 he served as Dean of the Department of Psychology and Sports Sciences. From 2016 to  2018, he has held a Professorship at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Work Research Institute (AFI), Norway and from 2016-2020 he was a member of the Psychology Review Board (Fachkollegium) of the German Science Foundation (DFG). From 2018 to 2021, he served as vice president at Goethe University, responsible for international affairs, early career researchers, diversity and equal opportunities. Van Dick is co-founder and Scientific Director of the Center for Leadership and Behavior in Organizations (CLBO) at Goethe University. Van Dick has been involved in various editorial functions at the British Journal of Management (editor -in-chief), the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology (Associate Editor), and the Journal of Personnel Psychology (editor-in-chief) and The Leadership Quarterly (associate editor). He has been a member of various editorial boards including the British Journal of Management, the European Journal of Work & Organizational Psychology, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, the Journal of Business and Psychology, the Journal of Managerial Psychology, the Journal of Change Management, the Journal of Management Studies, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, Organizational Psychology Review, Organizacionnaâ psihologiâ (Organizational Psychology), Science You Can Use (SIOP/APA annual series), Social Psychology, The Leadership Quarterly , and the German journals , Zeitschrift für Personalpsychologie, Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie, and . Research interests and awards. Among Van Dick's main research interests are inter- and intragroup-processes, especially the application of the social identity approach to diversity, leadership, mergers, teamwork, etc. Van Dick conducts his research in laboratory settings as well as in field studies or through cooperation with companies and schools. He has given over 300 talks at international conferences and in companies and other organizations and has published more than 60 books and book chapters and about 200 papers in academic outlets (such as "Academy of Management Journal , Journal of Applied Psychology", "Journal of Management", "Journal of Marketing", "Journal of Organizational Behavior", "Journal of Vocational Behavior", and "Journal of Personality and Social Psychology"). He is also a regular contributor to practitioner outlets such as the German edition of the Harvard Business Manager. In 2008, Van Dick was awarded with the University Teaching excellence award by the 1822-Foundation (German: "Universitätspreis für exzellente Lehre der 1822-Stiftung"). In 2009, 2016, 2019, and 2021 he was awarded the YAVIS price for excellent teaching at the Department of Psychology. In 2018, he was elected Fellow of the International Association of Applied  Psychology (IAAP).