Call for Applications: Research grants for representative survey samples

Prof. Dr. Emanuel de Bellis is Associate Professor of Empirical Research Methods and Director of the Institute of Behavioral Science and Technology at the University of St. Gallen. He serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Interactive Marketing and on the Editorial Review Boards of the Journal of Consumer Research. At St. Gallen, he is also Academic Advisor of the Global School in Empirical Research Methods, leads the Data and Method Consulting team, and represents the university on the Federal Commission for Scholarships for Foreign Students. His research sits at the intersection of marketing, psychology, behavioral science, and technology. He directs the Autonomy Lab, which investigates how consumers adopt, resist, and interact with increasingly autonomous technologies. Before joining St. Gallen, he was Assistant Professor at HEC Lausanne and held research positions at Columbia Business School and the University of British Columbia.

Prof. Dr. Alexandra Feddersen is a Professor at the Department of Communication and Media Research at the University of Fribourg. Her research focuses on political communication and on the interactions between politics, media, and public opinion, with particular interest in the communication strategies of political actors, media responses, and democratic opinion formation. In her current research, she examines how politicians communicate changes in their policy positions and how journalists cover these shifts and citizens perceive them. Before joining the University of Fribourg, she taught for six years at the University of Geneva and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies at the University of Neuchâtel. Her international research experience includes a visiting scholarship at the University of California and a visiting research fellowship at the University of Gothenburg.

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Gurtner is Professor of Healthcare Management, Strategy and Innovation and Head of the Institute for Innovation & Strategic Entrepreneurship at Bern University of Applied Sciences. He also serves on the research council of the Swiss National Science Foundation and on the editorial review board of the Journal of Product Innovation Management. His research focuses on innovation and technology management across industries, healthcare innovation, and the development and adoption of new products and services. Current projects include Rethinking Decision Making in the Digital Society, research on low-end innovation, and work on rebound effects associated with the sharing economy. Before assuming his current role, he led research groups at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf and TU Dresden; he was also a Guest Researcher at the University of Illinois Chicago. He completed his Habilitation at the TU Dresden, following his PhD at the same university.

Prof. Dr. Mirjam Hauser is Professor of Economic Psychology at the FHNW School of Applied Psychology and Program Director of the CAS Strategic Foresight. Her research focuses on consumer needs and changing consumer behavior, digitalization and consumer wellbeing, qualitative and quantitative market research, and strategic foresight and futures research. She currently leads the SNSF-funded NRP 84 project Mapping Moral Polarities (MORALMAP), which investigates moral structures underlying polarised debates around new plant-breeding technologies and develops empirically tested communication strategies for constructive public dialogue. Her current applied research also includes projects on smart vertical bicycle-parking systems, sustainable consumption and public-health data, and the future-oriented development of SBB travel centers. Before joining FHNW in 2023, she was Senior Lecturer at the UEH - International School of Business in Ho Chi Minh City, Senior Research Manager at GIM Suisse, and Senior Researcher at the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute.

Prof. Dr. Steffen Müller is Co-Head of the Institute of Marketing Management at the ZHAW School of Management and Law. Since 2023, he has served as a Board Member of Swiss Insights, the Swiss Data Insights Association, connecting his academic work with the professional market and social research community. His research and teaching focus on customer management, market research, Net Promoter Score, pricing, customer insights, advanced statistics and data analysis, and digital business models. His current work encompasses applied market and consumer research, pricing, customer analytics, and research projects conducted in cooperation with external organizations. Before joining ZHAW, he was Vice President Corporate Market Research at Hilti, Senior Marketing Consultant at Siemens, Research Associate at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, and Associate at the Boston Consulting Group. He holds a PhD in Marketing from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Prof. Dr. Dominique Wirz is an Assistant Professor at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research at the University of Amsterdam, where she is part of the Youth & Media Entertainment research group. Her academic activities include co-editing the three-volume Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication. Currently, her research focuses on media use and media effects, media psychology, political communication, entertainment, emotions, and digital media, with particular methodological expertise in experiments, surveys, digital trace data, experience sampling, and content analysis. Her current research examines news consumption and infotainment on social media, psychological richness as an entertainment experience, media use and recovery, emotions in political communication, and how entertaining news formats on social media platforms affect knowledge and attitudes. Before joining the University of Amsterdam, she conducted research at the University of Fribourg, where she received an SNSF Ambizione Grant, and she has also held a Fulbright Visiting Scholar Grant.