Prof. Dr. Malte Friese

Professional Positions

2024-2029
Speaker of the Research Training Group "Flexibility and Balance as Characteristics of Adaptive Self-Regulation" (RTG 2988)
Saarland University, Germany

2018-2020
Vice Dean of the Faculty of Empirical Humanities and Economics
Saarland University, Germany

2018-present
Speaker and Scientific Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Psychology
Saarland University, Germany

2016-2018
Head of the Department of Psychology
Saarland University, Germany

2016
Visiting researcher (1 month)
Department of Psychology (Main collaborator: Michael Inzlicht)
University of Toronto at Scarborough, Toronto, Canada

2015
Visiting researcher (1 month)
Department of Psychology (Main collaborator: Denise de Ridder)
University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

2012-present
Full Professor for Social Psychology
Saarland University, Germany

2011-2012
Interim head Division of Social- and Economic Psychology
University of Basel, Switzerland

2010-2011
Visiting researcher (3 months)
School of Psychology (Main collaborator: Bill von Hippel)
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

2010
Visiting researcher (3 months)
Department of Psychology (Main collaborator: Reinout Wiers)
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2008-2012
Lecturer and Research Scientist (Assistant Professor equivalent)
Division of Social- and Economic Psychology
University of Basel, Switzerland

2004-2008
Lecturer and Research Scientist
Division of Social- and Economic Psychology
University of Basel, Switzerland

Education

2012
Habilitation/Venia Docendi for Psychology
University of Basel, Switzerland

2008
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Psychology
University of Basel, Switzerland

2003
Diploma (equivalent to M.Sc.), Psychology
University of Heidelberg, Germany

1999
Pre-diploma (equivalent to B.Sc.), Psychology
University of Trier, Germany

Honors and Awards (selection)

2018

Förderpreis Psychologie for special commitment to promote research and teaching in psychology, awarded to Jan Crusius, Malte Friese, Oliver Genschow, and Melanie Sauerland on behalf of In-Mind Germany (http://de.in-mind.org)
German Association for Psychology (DGPs)

2017
Teaching award for the best lecture (2nd prize) in psychology
Students' Council Psychology, Saarland University, Germany

2017
Service to the Field Award awarded to In-Mind (http://de.in-mind.org)
I have served as chief editor for the German In-Mind edition from 2009-2017
Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)

2016
Teaching award for the best seminar in psychology (3rd prize)
Students' Council Psychology, Saarland University, Germany

2015
Teaching award for the best lecture (2nd and 3rd prize) in psychology
Students' Council Psychology, Saarland University, Germany 

2013
Teaching award for the best lecture (1st and 3rd prize) and best seminar (2nd prize) in psychology
Students' Council Psychology, Saarland University, Germany 

2011
Jos Jaspars Award for early-career scientific achievement in social psychology
European Association of Social Psychology (EASP)

2008
Steven Karger Award
Dissertation Award
Faculty of Psychology, University of Basel, Switzerland 

2003
Best diploma thesis in 2002 and 2003 (shared with Matthias Blümke)
Section Social Psychology, German Association for Psychology

Grants (selection)

2019
Quantification of biased responding during the measurement of trait sex drive
Research Fund, Saarland University, Germany

2019
Effects of omnipresence of medical artificial intelligence on the relationship between health-professional and patient
Volkswagen Stiftung, Germany
Awarded to Tim Pohlemann, Philipp Slusallek, Malte Friese, Stefan Diebels, Peter Dabrock

2015
The effect of precise anchors in negotiations
German Research Foundation (DFG)
Awarded to David Loschelder and Malte Friese

2015
On the role of mental effort in Ego Depletion
German Research Foundation (DFG)
Awarded to Malte Friese, Veronika Job, & David Loschelder

2013
Psychophysiology and self-regulation
Research Fund, Saarland University, Germany

2011
Support for the Internet project "The Inquisitive Mind - Psychology for You"
Foundation Suzanne und Hans Biäsch zur Förderung der Angewandten Psychologie, Zurich, Switzerland 

2011
Neural mechanisms of self-control depletion and its mitigation
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
Awarded to Malte Friese and Björn Rasch

2010
The interplay of automatic associations and executive control as determinants of attentional bias
Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft, Basel, Switzerland

2009
Identifying brain structures sensitive to self-regulatory depletion using fMRI
Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft, Basel, Switzerland
Awarded to Malte Friese and Björn Rasch

Editorial Service

2018-today
Editorial Board, Motivation Science

2018-today
Editorial Board, Health Psychology Review

2017-today
Advisory Board, The Inquisitive Mind

2013-2016
Associate Editor, Social Psychology 

2013-2015
Academic Editor, PLOS ONE 

2013-today
Editorial Board, Frontiers in Eating Behavior 

2010-2014
Editorial Board, Frontiers in Psychopathology 

2009-2017
Editor, The Inquisitive Mind, German-language edition