PD Dr. Timur Sevincer
Vita
Timur Sevincer is a motivation and social psychologist. His main area of research is motivation and self-regulation. In particular, he examines future-oriented self-regulation strategies – their spontaneous use and effects on behavior change - in various domains, including promoting sustainable behavior and fostering positive intergroup relationships. His research involves a wide variety of research questions and designs as well as diverse methods such as physiological measures, implicit measures, cognitive measures, ecological momentary assessment, behavioral observations in the field, large-scale surveys, and analyses of population-level data, and archival records.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- 2025-today: Research Associate, Institute of Sustainability Psychology
- 2025: Interim Professorship, Institute of Sustainability Psychology, Psychology in particular Sustainable Behavior
- 2024-2025: Research Fellow, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Delmenhorst, Institute for Advanced Study
- 2023-2024: Interim Professorship, Institute of Sustainability Psychology, Psychology and Transformation
- 2022-2023: Interim Professorship, Institute of Psychology, Motivation and General Psychology, Leuphana University Lüneburg
- 2022: Interim Professorship, Faculty of Psychology, Chair of Social Psychology, TU Dresden
- 2018-2021: Research Associate, Institute of Psychology, University of Hamburg
- 2018-2020: Part-Time Lecturer in Psychology, Leuphana University Lüneburg
- 2017-2018: Part-Time Lecturer in Psychology, New York University Berlin
- 2010-2018: Interim Professorship/Research Associate, Institute of Psychology, Educational Psychology and Motivation, University of Hamburg
- 2008-2010: Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Psychology, University of Hamburg
- 2004-2008: Doctoral student, Institute of Psychology, University of Hamburg
EDUCATION
- 2015: Venia Legendi, University of Hamburg, Psychology
- 2015: Habilitation, University of Hamburg, Psychology
- 2008: Ph.D., Summa cum laude, University of Hamburg, Psychology
- 2004: Magister Artium (M.A. equivalent), University of Hamburg, Philosophy (Minors: Psychology and American Studies)