Erich Mittenecker Mobility Award
About the prize and the previous winners
Since 2022, the Erich Mittenecker Mobility Award was financed by the Dean's Office of the Faculty of Natural Sciences in the context of the Science Mobility Award. It was endowed with a maximum of €10,000 and was awarded annually to finance postdoctoral researchers working at the Department of Psychology to conduct research abroad. This is intended to give them the opportunity to initiate collaborations with internationally renowned research institutions and the researchers there.
With 2024, the faculty initiative is replaced by the university-wide Visiting Award for High Potentials iwth a maximum of 2 recipients per faculty. We congratulate Chiara Banfi and Corinna Perchtold-Stefan (both Department of Psychology) for bein selected in 2024 (further information can be found under Personalities).
The prize was named after Prof. Dr. Erich Mittenecker (1922 - 2018), Professor of General Psychology at the University of Graz from 1968 until his retirement in 1990. He initiated a scientific shift in Graz towards empirical-experimental psychology.
Previous award winners
- Michaela Meier will visit the "Expertise Lab" at Michigan Statue University (Prof. Dr. David Zach Hambrick) in fall 2023 to deepen the cooperation on the topic of "Mathematical Creativity & Expertise".
- Jonas Potthoff will conduct a study on the topic of disgust in eating at the University of Bristol (Dr. Edwin Dalmaijer) in October-December 2023.
- Sandra Grinschgl has been invited to spend six weeks abroad at Brown University (USA) in the coming winter semester. Together with her host Prof. Bertram Malle, she will discuss, plan and implement a cooperation on the contemporary and complex topic of trust in artificial agents.
- Christian Rominger will also spend a research stay at the University of Leiden (NL) during the winter semester and discuss the implementation of collaborations on the exciting topic of Collective creativity: Functional patterns of brain activation during creative idea generation in groups with his host Prof. Carsten De Dreu.