Verena Klusmann-Weißkopf is a health psychologist and has been a professor of health promotion and prevention in the Faculty of Health, Security, Society at Furtwangen University since 2022. Previously, she held professorships in health sciences and public health at the universities of Bremen and Hamburg since 2014. She received her doctorate at the Charité Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin in the DFG (German Research Foundation) graduate school in Neuropsychiatry and Psychology of Aging. At the University of Konstanz, as a postdoc from 2011, she set up the Konstanz Life Study in the Psychological Diagnostics and Health Psychology working group and continues to be associated there. Since 2016, she has led the scientific network (funded by the DFG until 2022) “Images of Aging” as PI and spokesperson and is a member of other international and interdisciplinary research associations and expert panels. She has been Co-Editor of the European Journal of Health Psychology since 2014.

Research (selected):

• Health promotion across the lifespan (focus on: physical activity, eating behavior)
• Psychological views on aging and their role for health and health behavior
• Social-cognitive dynamics in health promotion and health behavior change
• Promoting cognitive fitness in old age through exercise and mental activation

Teaching (selected)

• Evidence-based health promotion and prevention
• Health and social psychology
• Development over the lifespan
• Emotion, motivation and communication
• Interdisciplinary collaboration
• Research methods