Tim Lauer

Dr. Tim Lauer is a Senior Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID), specializing in Computational Psychology and Moral Psychology. He holds a PhD in Psychology (Dr. rer. nat., 2022) from Goethe University Frankfurt and a Data Science Professional qualification (2022) from DSR Berlin. His research focuses on computational methods applied to psychological phenomena, including scene perception, object recognition, and social influence dynamics in academic contexts. Prior to ZPID, he worked as a Research Employee in Experimental Psychology at Goethe University (2017–2021).

Research Interests:

• Computational Psychology
• Moral Psychology
• Natural Language Processing
• Computer Vision
• Machine Learning

Key Contributions: Lauer’s work bridges cognitive psychology and computational modeling, addressing questions like how contextual materials influence object recognition and how social platforms shape academic communication. His recent studies analyze the #TwitterMigration to Mastodon through a computational lens, exploring researcher behavior and network dynamics.

Awards & Grants: No awards explicitly listed, though involvement in third-party funded projects at ZPID suggests grant-funded research activity. His work is supported by institutional resources and collaborations.

Labs & Teams: Affiliated with ZPID’s Big Data in Psychology and Moral Computing Lab, integrating large-scale data analysis with ethical considerations in AI-driven psychology research.