Team | Personality, Emotion and Music Laboratory
The research focus of our unit is on personality development, psychosocial aspects of partner choice, musical emotions and abilities, temperament, humor, and test development.
Professor / Lab Supervisor
Marcel Zentner's research interests are in the areas of personality development, psychological assessment, the psychology of mating, emotion and music.
Martin Bayer, BSc
Student assistant
Martin Bayer is part of the FWF-project "Humans and Recommender Systems". His research focusses on improving music recommender systems.
Pre-Doc
Vivienne Biedermann's research focusses on early childhood temperament and assessment.
Senior Lecturer
(currently on maternity leave)
Johanna Büchele is a clinical psychologist with particular expertise in forensic psychology.
Peer-Ole Jacobsen, BSc
Student assistant
Peer-Ole Jacobsen is part of the FWF-project "Humans and Recommender Systems". His research focusses on musically-evoked emotions.
Felicitas Pfeiffer
Student assistant
Felicitas Pfeiffer is our social media expert and provides thrilling insights on psychological research on our blog.
Senior Scientist
Hannah Strauß's research interests include personality development, music & emotion as well as psychological assessment.
Post-Doc
Francesca Talamini's research focusses on music, musical expertise and emotion.
Pre-Doc
Julia Vigl's research interests include relationship satisfaction, musical ability and musically-evoked emotions.
Technical assistant
Wolfgang Vigl is our technical expert and supervises most of our online-projects as well as our web page.
Tutors
Winter term 21/22
Marie Anderlik, BSc
Simon Maurer, BSc
Interns
Jonathan Gerland
Christoph Härtig
Florian Hemetsberger
Joschua Kappler
Christina Schäfer, BSc
Extern members
Winter term 21/22
MMMag. Dr. Maria-Christina Rehberger ✉
Mag. Isabelle Schatten-Haubner ✉
Former team members