Astrid Homan

Astrid Homan is an full professor and currently chair of work and organizational psychology at the University of Amsterdam. She worked on her dissertation research at the same department (PhD in 2006). During her PhD, she received a competitive Fulbright Scholarship to visit Michigan State University, East Lansing. In 2006 she won the IACM best paper award for her work on diversity beliefs in diverse groups. She then moved to the department of Social and Organizational Psychology at Leiden University. In 2008, she was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley. In the same year, she moved to the VU University in Amsterdam, where she worked until February 2012. In March 2012, she moved back to the University of Amsterdam as a tenured staff member. In the same year, she won the IACM best theoretical paper award. In the autumn of 2014, she was a visiting professor at Columbia Business School in New York, at the management department. In 2015, she received an Aspasia grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO; €200.000). She chairs the EDI committee of the UvA psychology department.

She is and was involved in various PhD projects at the University of Amsterdam, VU University, and Kiel University on diversity, teams, power, emotions, wellbeing, and leadership. In 2010, she obtained a Mosaic Grant together with Seval Gündemir and Mark van Vugt, to examine the minority glass ceiling effect.

She is the Editor-in-Chief for Organizational Psychology Review (starting 2020; and Associate Editor between 2017-2019), Associate Editor for Journal of Applied Psychology (starting 2020), and an editorial board member for a wide variety of journals, such as Academy of Management Journal, British Journal of Management, Social Psychological and Personality Science, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.

Education

• Basis Opleiding Universitair Docent (Basiskwalificatie Onderwijs, BKO), 2010 VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Ph.D., Psychology, July 2006 University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Dissertation defense/PhD awarded: July 5, 2006
• MA, Communication Science, August 2001 University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Companies

• Full Professor Universiteit van Amsterdam (2016)
• Associate Professor University of Amsterdam (2014)
• Assistant Professor University of Amsterdam (2012 — 2014)
• Visiting Professor Columbia Business School (2014 — 2014)
• Assistant Professor VU University Amsterdam (2008 — 2012)
• Assistant Professor Leiden University (2005 — 2008)
• Visiting Professor University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business (2007 — 2007)
• PhD student University of Amsterdam (2001 — 2005)
• Fulbright Scholar Michigan State University – The Eli Broad College of Business (2003 — 2003)