Christina Röcke

Project partner

CUrrent Positions

  • Scientific Management: Center for Gerontology, Co-Director UFSP ‘Dynamics of Healthy Aging’ and Healthy Longevity Center, University of Zurich
  • Scientific Leadership for SWISS100 at the University of Zurich

Educational Background

  • Dipl.-Psych., Freie Universität Berlin
  • Dr. phil. Psychologie, Freie Universität Berlin/Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Berlin

Prior Experience

  • PostDoc Lifespan Lab, Brandeis University, USA & Life-Management Lab, Universität Zürich
  • Scientific Coordinator International Normal Aging and Plasticity Center, Universität Zürich

Research Focus

  • Subjective Well-being and emotional aging
  • Activities and mobility in daily life
  • Intraindividual variability and ambulatory assessment

Additional Experiences/Milestones

  • Vontobel price for Aging research 2009
  • Domain Expert Projekt NESTORE (Horizon 2020)

Role in Swiss100

  • Co-leadership at the University of Zurich for data collection in German-speaking Switzerland