Dr. Julia Schöllbauer, BSc, MSc
Julia Schöllbauer has been directing themaster’s program in Business Administration & Business Psychologyat Ferdinand Porsche FERNFH since 2024 and has been working as a research assistant at the Institute for Business & Psychology since September 2023. There, she is involved in both teaching business psychology and conducting research. Her current research focuses primarily on the fields of work and social psychology.
Since 2015, Julia Schöllbauer has been involved in several Austrian universities and national and international research projects. In these projects, she focused primarily on the psychological challenges and benefits associated with new, technology-supported forms of work (e.g., flexible working hours and locations). These include, for example, the unpredictability of work (and workdays)—which she identified as a new source of work-related stress—and the blurring of spatial and temporal boundaries between work and leisure/personal life.
Key Areas of Work & Research Interests
Retirement
Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Flexible Work
Motivation
Stress
Career Path
Program Director – Master's in Business Administration & Business Psychology
Research Assistant at the Institute for Economics & Psychology at the Ferdinand Porsche FERNFH
Research Associate (Postdoc) at the Institute for Work, Business, and Social Psychology and the Institute for Educational Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Vienna
Adjunct Faculty Members at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna
Research Associate at the Institute of Management Sciences, Vienna University of Technology
Research Associate and Ph.D. candidate at the Institute for Work, Business, and Social Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Vienna
Research Associate and Ph.D. candidate at the Institute for Work, Business, and Social Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Vienna
Project Staff Member at mipra – Institute for Motivation and Mobility Research
Research Intern and Student Assistant at the Institute for Work, Business, and Social Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna
Education
Ph.D. in Psychology, University of Vienna; dissertation title: Boundless and Unpredictable: Psychological Implications of Contemporary Knowledge Work
Master’s degree in psychology, University of Vienna; title of master’s thesis: The Role of Cognitive Flexibility in Modern Professional Life—Interaction with Job Demands and Impact on Job Success? A Comparison of Employees and Entrepreneurs
Bachelor's Degree in Psychology, University of Vienna
Memberships in scientific societies
- German Psychological Society (DGPs), Division of Work, Organizational, and Business Psychology
- European Association of Occupational Health Psychology (EAOHP)
- Austrian Psychological Association (ÖGP)