Bettina Kubicek
Prof. Dr. Bettina Kubicek is Professor of Work and Organizational Psychology at the University of Graz. After her studies in psychology and sociology at the University of Vienna and the Free University of Berlin, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Vienna from 2011 until 2016. She was a visiting scholar at the University of Madison-Wisconsin and a visiting professor at the University of Maribor. From 2016 to 2018 she worked as a professor of organizational development at the Faculty of Informatics at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria. In her research, Prof. Dr. Bettina Kubicek deals with the intensification and flexibility of work. Specifically, she examines the impact of work intensification and workplace flexibility on employee well-being, motivation and learning as well as the role of personal and organizational resources in dealing with these demands. She is currently leading research projects on cognitive demands of flexible work, work-home boundary management, and trust in human-robot interactions. Moreover, she currently sets up an interaction lab for studying human-robot collaborations.