Dr. Julia Stern

Address: Grazer Straße 2c, Room 1140, 28359 Bremen

PO box: 330440, 28334 Bremen

Email: jstern (at) uni-bremen.de

Phone: +49 (0)421 218-68774

Short vita

Starting April 2025: Interim professor Personality Psychology and Psychological Assessment, University of Bremen
Since December 2024: Senior Researcher (tenured) for Psychometrics and Research on Individual Differences, University of Bremen
July 2021 - November 2024: Researcher (tenure track) für for Psychometrics and Research on Individual Differences, (positive evaluation in July 2024), University of Bremen
April 2023 - October 2023 und März 2024 - Juni 2024: Maternity leave
September 2018 - June 2021: Postdoc, Biological Personality Psychology, University of Göttingen
July 2020 - March 2021: Maternity leave
September 2019 - October 2019: Research stay, Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow
October 2015 - August 2018: Research Assistant (PhD student), DFG Graduate School Research Training Group 2070 "Understanding Social Relationships" and Biological Personality Psychology, University of Göttingen (Dr. rer. nat.; summa cum laude; Oral presentation 22.08.2018; Thesis handed in on 15.06.2018).
March 2018: Research stay Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico Albuquerque
September 2017 - October 2017: Research stay, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California Santa Barbara
October 2013 - August 2015: Master of Science Psychologie, Universiy of Göttingen
October 2010 - August 2013: Bachelor of Science Psychologie, University of Göttingen

Editorial and Reviewer Roles

Since 01.01.24 Associate Editor, Psychological Science
Since 2023: Editorial Board Member, Hormones and Behavior
Since 2021: Editorial Board Member, Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology
Since 2017: Ad-hoc Reviewer for 34 different scientific journals with peer-review and 6 different third-party funding providers

Awards

2025: YERUN Open Science Award (representative for engagement of the Bremer Open Science Initiative at Faculty 11)
2021: Teaching award for the best online courses (during Covid) at the Bachelor Psychology, University of Göttingen

Hormonal correlates (esp. estradiol, progesterone, testosterone, cortisol, hormonal contraception) of personality, mental and physical health, mate preferences, behavior, attitudes, emotions and other intra- and interindividual differences
Personality, well-being and romantic relationships or singlehood
Personality and mate choice (as well as mate preferences)
Reliability and validity of hormone measurements
Personality development during puberty and in older ages
Personality perceptions and their accuracy at zero acquaintance, validity of personality impressions
Relationship between personality and voice parameters
Open Science

Publications: Publicationlist_Stern

summer semester 2025: Differential and Personality Psychologie, Bachelor Psychology (two lectures per week), University of Bremen
since winter semester 2021/2022 (every winter semester): Psychological Assessment, Bachelor Psychology (one lecture and three practical seminars each week), University of Bremen
previously (all University of Göttingen): 4x Seminar Differential Psychologie, 4x Seminar Test Theory, 2x Seminar Interview & Behavioral Observation, 2x Lecture and practical seminar Statistics Refresh (all Bachelor Psychology), 1x Seminar Biological Foundations of Interindividual Differences (Master Psychology)