Ute Hülsheger is Professor of Occupational Health Psychology and Organizational Behavior at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience at Maastricht University, The Netherlands.
Ute studied psychology at Bielefeld University, Germany. After that she spent half a year at the University of Seville, Spain, studying Spanish and Business Administration. She earned her Ph.D. from Bielefeld University in 2006, Germany, in Work and Organizational Psychology. She continued as a postdoctoral fellow at the HROB department of the University of Amsterdam Business School before starting at Maastricht University in 2007. Currently Ute serves as the head of the section Work and Organizational Psychology https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/research/wsp/research/work-and-organisational-psychology.
Ute's research focuses on occupational health and organizational behavior including topics such as emotional labor, recovery from work, and the role of mindfulness for employee well-being and organizational functioning.
Education and Academic Degrees
Habilitation, January 2017, University of Münster, Institute of Psychology
Dr. rer. nat in Psychology, Bielefeld University, June 2006, Department of Psychology, Work and Organizational Psychology
Dipl.-psych., Bielefeld University, June 2002, Department of Psychology
Academic Positions
February 2023 - to date: Full Professor - personal chair; Department of Work and Social Psychology, Maastricht University
Feburary 2018 - January 2023: Full Professor - specialized remit; Department of Work and Social Psychology, Maastricht University
November 2013 - January 2018: Associate Professor; Department of Work and Social Psychology, Maastricht University
September 2007 - October 2013: Assistant Professor with tenure; Department of Work and Social Psychology, Maastricht University
September 2006 - August 2007: Postdoctoral Fellow at the HROB group; Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam (scholarship funded by the German Academic Exchange Service, DAAD)
July 2003 - Aug. 2006: Research and Teaching Associate (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin); Department of Psychology, Work and Organizational Psychology, Bielefeld University
April 2003 - Aug. 2006: Research and Teaching Associate (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin); Department of Psychology, Differential and Personality Psychology, Bielefeld University
Professional Affiliations
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPS)
European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP)
Current and Former Editorial Board Memberships
Journal of Applied Psychology
Journal of Business and Psychology
Journal of Occupational Health Psychology
Journal of Personnel Psychology
Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
Occupational Health Science
Personnel Assessment and Decisions
German Journal of Research in Human Resource Management
Ad Hoc Reviewer
Applied Psychology: An International Review
Emotion
European Journal of Personality
European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
Human Performance
Human Relations
International Journal of Psychology
Journal of Individual Differences
Journal of Management
Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
Psychology & Health
Work & Stress
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)
German Research Foundation (DFG)
Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
Selected key publications
Hülsheger, U. R., van Gils, S., & Walkowiak, A. (2021). The regulatory role of mindfulness in enacted workplace incivility. An experience sampling study. Journal of Applied Psychology, 106, 1250-1265.
Hülsheger, U. R., & Alberts, H. J. E. M (2021). Assessing facets of mindfulness in the context of work: The Mindfulness@Work Scale as a work-specific, multidimensional measure of mindfulness. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 70, 1728-1783.
Hülsheger, U. R. (2016). From dawn till dusk: Shedding light on the recovery process by investigting daily change patterns in fatigue. Journal of Applied Psychology, 101, 905-914.
Hülsheger, U. R., Lang, J. W. B., Schewe, A. F., & Zijlstra, F. (2015). When regulating emotions at work pays off: A diary and an intervention study on emotion regulation and customer tips in service jobs. Journal of Applied Psychology, 100, 263-277.
Hülsheger, U. R., Lang, J. W. B., Depenbrock, F., Fehrmann, C., Zijlstra, F. & Alberts, H. J. E. M. (2014). The power of presence: The role of mindfulness at work for daily levels and change trajectories of psychological detachment and sleep quality. Journal of Applied Psychology, 99, 1113-1128.
Hülsheger, U. R., Alberts, H. J. E. M., Feinholdt, A., & Lang, J. W. B. (2013). Benefits of mindfulness at work: On the role of mindfulness in emotion regulation, emotional exhaustion, and job satisfaction. Journal of Applied Psychology, 98, 310-325.
Hülsheger, U. R., & Schewe, A. F. (2011). On the costs and benefits of emotional labor: A meta-analysis of three decades of research. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 16, 361-389.
Hülsheger, U.R., Anderson, N., & Salgado, J.F. (2009). Team-level predictors of innovation at work: A meta-analysis spanning three decades of research. Journal of Applied Psychology, 94, 1128-1145.
More publications
google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=U-iemKAAAAAJContact Information
Ute R. Hülsheger
Department of Work and Social Psychology
Maastricht University
P.O. Box 616
6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
Phone: 0031-43-3881959
Email: Ute.Hulsheger at maastrichtuniversity.nl
last update: December 2022