Ulf-Dietrich Reips

Who is Ulf-Dietrich Reips?

Prof. Dr. Ulf-Dietrich Reips is an IKERBASQUE research professor at University of Deusto in Bilbao, Spain. In his previous position he was an assistant professor and lecturer at the Psychology Department of the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He received his PhD in 1997 and his habilitation in 2004 from the University of Tübingen, Germany. In 1992, he received an M.A. in Psychology from Sonoma State University, California. In 2012, Ulf-Dietrich Reips received a FIRST award from University of Colorado Boulder and is since affiliated on a honorable basis with its Department of Psychology and Neuroscience.

Ulf-Dietrich Reips is working on Internet-based research methodologies, in particular Internet-based psychological experimenting and Internet-based tests, the psychology of the Internet, measurement, and the cognition of causality. In 1994 and 1995 he founded the Web Experimental Psychology Lab, the first laboratory for conducting real experiments on the World Wide Web. In 1997, he was one of the seven founders of the German Society for Online Research and wrote a book chapter on the methodology of conducting experiments via the Internet that later won him a young scientist award by the German Society for Psychology. His 2002 article in the journal "Experimental Psychology", Standards for Internet-based experimenting, defined the field and became one of its journal's most cited articles. In 2005, Reips was elected the first non-North American president of the Society for Computers in Psychology.