Dr. Martin Tomasik

Biography

Martin Tomasik has been a full professor of Research Methods in Developmental Educational Sciences at the University of Zurich since October 2021. His research interests include methods for competence measurement, modeling competence trajectories, and longitudinal research methods in the areas of education and development. He studied psychology at the Free University of Berlin and worked as an assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. Tomasik earned his doctorate under Professor Rainer K. Silbereisen at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena on the topic of "Developmental Barriers Benefits Disengagement" as part of the Collaborative Research Center 580 on societal developments after the systemic transformation. His doctoral thesis received the German Study Award/Recognition Award from the Körber Foundation. He subsequently served as a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Applied Developmental Science in Jena, participated in the international postdoctoral program PATHWAYS, and worked in the Chair of Developmental Psychology at the University of Zurich. In 2014, Tomasik completed his habilitation at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Zurich in the field of psychology and subsequently served as a visiting professor for developmental psychology and educational psychology at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel. From 2016 to 2022, he was the scientific director of the Institute for Educational Evaluation, an affiliated institute of the University of Zurich, and between 2017 and 2021, he was a university professor for developmental psychology and educational psychology at Witten/Herdecke University.

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