Handbook of Human Multitasking (PDF)

Dr. Andrea Kiesel received her Ph.D. in Psychology in 2003 from the University of Würzburg. She stayed at the University of Würzburg for her habilitation (2008) and got a permanent lecturer position there in 2010. In 2015, she joined Freiburg University as a full professor of cognitive psychology. Her research area is cognition, action and sustainability. Among other academic activities, Dr. Kiesel has been associate editor of JEP: Learning, Memory & Cognition (2012-2017) and is currently president elect of the European Society of Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP). She receives continuous DFG funding, and together with Dr. Koch and Dr. Müller she initiated a large scale national DFG Priority Program on Human Multitasking (PP 1772). Dr. Kiesel is widely published with more than 130 peer-review articles (including two comprehensive review papers in Psychological Bulletin).

Dr. Leif Johannsen is an expert for sensorimotor control of posture and balance during states of both standing and walking. Johannsen's research in recent years has focussed on balance during states of standing and walking, especially in the context of haptic interactions with the environment and other human individuals. He worked as a neuropsychologist and researcher at the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, Department of Cognitive Neurology in Tübingen (Germany), where he completed his PhD in Behavioural Neuroscience in 2005. After more than a decade of successful post-doctoral research at the University of Birmingham, School of Psychology, and the Technical University Munich, Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, he was appointed as senior lecturer in Acquired Brain Injury Rehabilitation at the University of East Anglia (UEA), Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences in November 2016. In November 2018, Johannsen joined the RWTH Aachen University as senior researcher and scientific coordinator for the 2nd funding period of the DFG Priority Programme 1772 ("Multitasking"). In 2021,