Max Knabe

Doctoral Researcher

Main Focus

  • Offender decision-making
  • Virtual Reality
  • Physiological measures of behavior
  • Quantitative data analysis in the social sciences

Curriculum Vitae

Professional Experience

  • 2022–2025: Research assistant at the Chair of Social Psychology (Mario Gollwitzer), Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany
  • 2021–2025: Co-founder, -editor, and author of the Student Series of Criminology journal, published by the Chair of Criminology and Criminal Law (Ralf Kölbel), Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany
  • 2020–2022: Student assistant at the Chair of Clinical Psychology (Thomas Ehring), Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany

Education

  • 2025–present: Ph. D. Criminology at the MPI-CSL and Leiden University, Netherlands (supervisor: Jean-Louis van Gelder)
  • 2022–2024: M. Sc. Psychology (Organizations, Economy, and Applied Social Psychology), Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany (supervisors: Moritz Fischer, Timothy Barnum, Shaina Herman)
  • 2019–2022: B. Sc. Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany (supervisor: Katja Bertsch)
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