Imke Dirkx

Imke Dirkx is a Scientific Employee at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, affiliated with the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences and Solvay Business School in the Work and Organizational Psychology department. Her research focuses on personality dynamics, financial insecurity, and workplace well-being.

• Fields of Interest: Personality psychology, behavioral economics, organizational behavior.

Dirkx employs diary studies and longitudinal methods to explore how financial worries impact well-being and customer-directed counterproductive performance. She has presented at international conferences like the Academy of Management and collaborates on datasets related to acting out of character.

She supervises Master's theses on topics ranging from budgeting apps to consumer data privacy, working with colleagues like Bert Schreurs and Joeri Hofmans.