Linda Onnasch

Linda Onnasch is an Assistant Professor at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin in the Department of Engineering Psychology since 2017. She specializes in human-automation and human-robot interaction, focusing on function allocation, automation reliability, anthropomorphism, and RoboEthics. She holds a PhD in Psychology from Technische Universität Berlin (2014) and a Diplom in Psychology from the same institution (2009).

• PhD in Psychology (2009-2014), Technische Universität Berlin
• Diplom in Psychology (2002-2009), Technische Universität Berlin

Her research explores the impact of anthropomorphic robot design on trust and attention, flexible automation concepts, and ethical implications of human-robot collaboration. Recent work examines social loafing with robots, taxonomy development for interaction models, and the role of system transparency in trust recovery.

Linda’s publications emphasize automation bias, human error identification, and empirical validation of human-robot interaction paradigms. She has contributed to journals like ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction and Science Robotics, with a 2021 meta-analysis on anthropomorphism in robotics.

• HFES Europe Chapter Best Paper Award

She has served as an ad-hoc reviewer for journals like IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems and is a member of organizations including the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Europe Chapter and the German Association of University Professors and Lecturers (DHV).