Prof. Dr. Christopher J. Hopwood

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsPersonality Psychology, Clinical and Medical Psychology, Methodology
KeywordsPersonality, Interpersonal Processes, Psychotherapy, Assessment, Personality Disorder

Current contact address

CountrySwitzerland
CityZürich
InstitutionUniversität Zürich
InstituteDepartment of Psychology

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Johannes ZimmermannInstitut für Psychologie (IfP), Universität Kassel, Kassel
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/2022

Programme(s)

2021Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Hopwood is well known internationally for his research on interpersonal processes, personality and human-animal relations. He has made important contributions to the assessment of personality as it pertains to improve mental health diagnosis and to generate more effective models for psychotherapy. During his stay in Germany, he intends to further his work on interpersonal models of diagnosis to improve mental health care and to generate new ideas about how to apply personality psychology to address the problem of climate change.