Hi. I’m Timon. I am a postdoc and SNSF Ambizione fellow at the Applied Social and Health Psychology lab of the University of Zürich. My research focuses on the development and application of methods to study online and offline social interactions dynamics in daily life with the aim to understand how these contribute to psychological well-being.
Previously, I was a postdoc at the University of Groningen (Netherlands) and ETH Zürich (Switzerland). I studied Psychology at the University of Basel (BSc) and University of Zürich (MSc) and received a PhD from the ETH Zürich.
Interests
- Digital Communication
- Social Interaction Dynamics
- Psychological Well-Being
- Measurement and Modeling of Intensive Longitudinal Data
Education
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Ph.D. in Social Network Analysis, 2019
ETH Zürich
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M.Sc. in Psychology, 2015
University of Zürich (UZH)
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B.Sc. in Psychology, 2013
University of Basel
Projects
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Recent Publications
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(2023).
Computational social science is growing up: why puberty consists of embracing measurement validation, theory development, and open science practices.
EPJ Data Science.
(2023).
Modeling categorical time-to-event data: The example of social interaction dynamics captured with event-contingent experience sampling methods.
Psychological Methods.
(2023).
Studying Daily Social Interaction Quantity and Quality in Relation to Depression Change: A Multi-Phase Experience Sampling Study.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
(2023).
Feedback About a Person’s Social Context - Personal Networks and Daily Social Interactions.
dministration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research.
(2023).
A review of approaches and models in psychopathology conceptualization research.
Nature Reviews Psychology.
(2022).
Modeling social interaction dynamics measured with smartphone sensors: An ambulatory assessment study on social interactions and loneliness.
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.
(2022).
Back to Basics: The Importance of Conceptual Clarification in Psychological Science.
Current Directions in Psychological Science.
(2021).
In Which Direction Does Happiness Predict Subsequent Social Interactions? A Commentary on Quoidbach et al. (2019).
Psychological Science.
(2021).
Psychometric Evaluation of the German Version of the Opening Minds Stigma Scale for Health Care Providers ( OMS-HC ).
BMC Psychology.
(2021).
The Swiss StudentLife Study: Investigating the emergence of an undergraduate community through dynamic, multidimensional social network data.
Social Networks.
(2020).
Students under lockdown: Comparisons of students' social networks and mental health before and during the COVID-19 crisis in Switzerland.
PLoS ONE.
(2020).
Depressive symptoms are associated with social isolation in face-to-face interaction networks.
Scientific Reports.
(2020).
Getting Stuck in Social Isolation: Solitude Inertia and Depressive Symptoms.
Journal of Abnormal Psychology.
(2020).
Short-term and long-term effects of a social network intervention on friendships among university students.
Scientific Reports.
(2020).
A model for the dynamics of face-to-face interactions in social groups.
Network Science.
(2019).
Integration in emerging social networks explains academic failure and success..
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
(2019).
The validity of RFID badges measuring face-to-face interactions.
Behavior Research Methods.
(2019).
What do centrality measures measure in psychological networks?.
Journal of Abnormal Psychology.
(2018).
Informal coercion as a neglected form of communication in psychiatric settings in Germany and Switzerland.
Psychiatry Research.
(2018).
Current and ideal team roles: Relationships to job satisfaction and calling..
Translational Issues in Psychological Science.
(2017).
Informal coercion as a neglected form of communication in psychiatric settings in Germany and Switzerland.
Psychiatry Research.
(2017).
The co-evolution of emotional well-being with weak and strong friendship ties.
Network Science.