Academic Positions (Pre- or Postdoctoral Level)

Academic Positions (Pre- or Postdoctoral Level)

Reference no.: 2026/097. The Position is to be filled as soon as possible and is initially limited for three years. In principle, this Position can be divided into two part-time positions.

The University of Konstanz is a dynamic and internationally successful research university with approximately 10,000 students. The campus university's architecture promotes interdisciplinary cooperation and a sense of community among researchers, lecturers and students. The University of Konstanz has been continuously funded by the German Excellence Strategy since 2006.

The research focus of the Psychological Assessment and Health Psychology group is on psychological determinants of individual and collective health behaviours, emphasizing dietary and sustainability behaviour.

We are part of the Cluster of Excellence “Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour” (“Collective Appetite") and of the Baden-Württemberg Institute for Sustainable Mobility, where we are supporting the mobility transition through the research project “Why We Move How We Move."

Your Responsibilities

• Contribute to our research on health behaviour with a special focus on health (nutrition) and sustainability behaviour (mobility)
• Application and development of new and digital methods for behavioral assessment and behavioural design
• 4 SWS teaching in the field of psychological assessment and health psychology

Your Competencies

• Excellent or very good PhD or Master’s degree in psychology, public health or behavioural science
• High motivation to conduct high-quality research in healthy psychology and behavioural design/ interest in the topic of sustainable mobility
• Excellent training in methodology and statistics
• Experience in data collection, management and analysis (e.g. R)
• Independent work, high personal engagement, communication and cooperation skills
• Excellent written and spoken German and English skills

We offer

• An open, motivated research group with interdisciplinary interests
• Latest assessment and intervention methods and technologies (e.g. 3D Human Behaviour Tracking Lab, mobile and smart intervention technologies)
• Research at the interface between basic and applied research
• Work in a fabulous environment
• Classification according to the tariff regulations of TV-L (depending on the personal prerequisites up to pay group 13 TV-L)

For further information, please contact Prof. Britta Renner at , For more information on the healthy psychology group, please visit: .

Please arrange your application documents into a single PDF file to submit your application at the latest on 22nd May 2026 via our Online Application Portal.

The University of Konstanz is committed to ensuring an environment that provides equal opportunities and promotes diversity, as well as a good balance between university and family life. As an equal opportunity employer, we strive to increase the number of women working in research and teaching. We also support working couples through our dual career programme. Persons with disabilities are explicitly encouraged to apply. They will be given preference if appropriately qualified (contact , ).