Heike Heidemeier

Heike Heidemeier is a Professor and Head of the Department of Work, Organizational and Business Psychology at the Department of Psychology and Psychodynamics, Karl Landsteiner Private University of Health Sciences, Austria, a position she has held since September 2022. Her academic journey includes prior professorships at the University of Kassel and PFH Göttingen, and academic roles at Jacobs University Bremen and RWTH Aachen.

Her research focuses on intrapsychic processes such as self-regulation, motivation, and self-assessment in the workplace. She investigates how individuals set goals, respond to feedback, and how work context factors like team competition, autonomy, and gender composition influence performance and well-being. Her work bridges theoretical and applied psychology, contributing to organizational design, coaching, and leadership practices. Current research interests include demographic diversity, ethical behavior in organizations, psychological coping with uncertainty, and lifelong learning.

The recent publications highlight a strong trend in work and organizational psychology, particularly in self-regulation, job satisfaction, gender dynamics in teams, and assessment in aging. A notable interdisciplinary contribution appears in medical imaging, co-authored with medical researchers, indicating collaborative work across fields, though her primary research domain remains organizational psychology.

She is actively involved in research funding, currently serving as Principal Investigator (PI) on an Austrian Science Fund (FWF) project titled 'Demographic Diversity in Groups' (2025–2028), demonstrating ongoing research leadership. She also organizes academic events, such as the AOW-Plattformtreffen 2025.

Prof. Heidemeier emphasizes the professional diversity of work and organizational psychology, advocating for its applications in personnel diagnostics, management consulting, stress prevention, and coaching. She integrates psychometric and diagnostic methods into both research and teaching, aiming to prepare students for diverse career paths in applied psychology.