Marie Curie Fellowship for Lennart Reddmann
Max Planck postdoc receives prestigious funding from the European Commission
Lennart Reddmann, postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, has received a highly competitive Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship from the European Commission.
The doctor of psychology applied for funding with a project exposé on conflict research. In his research project “Group Formation under Conflict: An Experimental and Theoretical Study of Causes and Consequences”, Lennart Reddmann will investigate how groups form and how they change when conflict occurs. He will use psychological experiments and computer models to carry out his research. The aim is to gain new insights into the causes and processes underlying group conflicts.
“The armed conflicts being waged all over the world show how important it can be, especially in these turbulent times, to learn more about the group behavior of people in conflict situations,” explains Lennart Reddmann. “With the help of our research, we will identify how people decide which groups they join in conflict situations. In particular, we hope to find answers to the question of which group characteristics – such as group size or social identity – influence these decisions,” says the researcher. How group formation affects a group’s chances of "success" is also a key area of interest.
The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA) is recognized globally as a mark of excellence in scientific research, particularly in fields related to physics, chemistry, and life sciences. Only a small percentage of applicants are awarded the fellowship. According to the European Commission, it seeks to promote the “creative and innovative potential of doctoral researchers” with its Marie Curie Fellowships. In a rigorous selection process, research projects are chosen that are international, interdisciplinary, and considered to be particularly promising.
Lennart Reddmann has been a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute in Freiburg since March 2024 and is conducting research in the “Behavioral Economics of Crime and Conflict” group, an independent research group under the direction of Hannes Rusch. Before joining the Institute, he completed his doctorate at Leiden University on the topic of asymmetric conflicts, under the supervision of Carsten K.W. De Dreu and Jörg Gross. The newly funded project is expected to officially kick off in October 2025.