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      Prof. Dr. Tanja Manser

      Tanja Manser

      Activities at FHNW

      • Director FHNW School of Applied Psychology
      • Member Board of Directors FHNW
      • FHNW site manager Solothurn/Olten

      Key competencies

      • Teamwork and leadership
      • Coordination and communication in High Responsibility Teams
      • Health and safety in complex work environments
      • Patient Safety
      • Organizational Climate

      Profile

      CV

      since 01/2018
      Head of School (Director), School of Applied Psychology FHNW

      since 01/2024
      Board Member Commission for Psychology Professions, Federal Office of Public Health

      since 03/2023
      Foreign Adjunct Professor, Karolinska Institutet

      01/2019–10/2021
      Member of the ENSI Board, Vice-president 2020

      04/2019-04/2020
      Member of the Scientific Advisory Board on safety and quality of care, Federal Office of Public Health

      01/2016–12/2018
      Adjunct Professor for Patient Safety; Centre for Risk Management and Societal Safety; Department of Health Studies; University Stavanger, Norway

      04/2014–11/2017
      Director Institute for Patient Safety and (since 06/2014) Full Professor for Patient Safety, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Germany

      12/2010–03/2014
      Associate Professor for Industrial Psychology and Human Factors (Swiss National Science Foundation-Professorship), Department of Psychology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

      10/2009–09/2010
      Senior Research Fellow; Marie-Curie Intra-European Fellowship; Industrial Psychology Research Centre; School of Psychology; University of Aberdeen, Scotland

      01/2008–06/2012
      Committee Member, Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Commission (KNS), Brugg, Switzerland

      08/2003–10/2005
      Post-doctoral Fellow; Department of Anesthesia; School of Medicine; Stanford University and VA Palo Alto, USA

      Research positions at ETH Zurich
      1998–2003 Researcher, Institute of Work Psychology, Department of Management and Production Science; 2005–2008 Senior Researcher and 2008–2009 Senior Lecturer Center for Organizational and Occupational Sciences, Department of Management, Technology and Economics

      Education

      2019
      Higher Education Management

      2017
      TeamSTEPPS Master Trainer, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

      2014
      Diploma of Advanced Studies (DAS) Didactics in Higher Education, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

      2014
      Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Management, University of Bern, Switzerland

      2008
      Habilitation in Psychology; ETH Zurich, Switzerland

      2002
      Ph.D. in Psychology; University of Zurich, Switzerland

      Studies of Psychology and Business Administration, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany (Diploma in Psychology 1998)

      Memberships and awards

      Editorial boards

      • BMJ Open since 2021
      • Ergonomics since 2022

      Scientific and professional societies

      • Board member Swiss Psychological Society (SGP) since 2019
      • Chairperson Commission for Studies in Psychology at Swiss Universities (KPSYCH) since 2024; Board member since 2020
      • Chairperson Applied Psychology Conference since 2024; Board member since 2018
      • Swiss Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SGAOP)
      • German Psychological Society (DGPs); Section Work and Organisational Psychology
      • Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES)

      Awards

      • Wilfried-Lorenz-Heath Services Research Award, German Network Health Services (DNVF) together with Saskia Huckels-Baumgart 2015
      • Honorary Member of the Belgian Society of Anesthesia and Resuscitation since 2015
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    • Prof. Dr. Tanja Manser

      Prof. Dr. Tanja Manser

      Director FHNW School of Applied Psychology

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      +41 62 957 28 18

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      tanja.manser@fhnw.ch

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      FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland School of Applied Psychology Riggenbachstrasse 16 CH – 4600 Olten

      FHNW Campus Olten

      FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland

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      4600 Olten

      Phone+41 84 882 10 11

      E-Mailccc.olten@fhnw.ch

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