• Health promotion and prevention (e.g., in nursing care and schools)
• Digital and digitally supported interventions (e.g., communication in nursing care, app-based mindfulness training)
• Stress and well-being in higher education; test anxiety and academic success
• Fairness and diversity in (e-)assessments; assessment analytics
• Personality (incl. the Dark Tetrad) and collaboration in virtual teams
• Quantitative methods: longitudinal, multilevel and structural equation modelling

Current Projects

• EditCare – Relieving nursing staff through digitally supported communication
• Weitblick – Gesunde Schule hat Methode (Communities That Care – nutrition and physical activity module)

Completed Projects

• HySkiLabs – Teaching and learning health in hybrid skills labs, pillar “Healthy learning by reducing psychosocial strain” (University of Lübeck, 2024–2025)
• NOVA:ea – Innovation cluster e-assessment: diversity, didactics, technologies; funded by the Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre (FernUniversität in Hagen, 2019–2021; German Institute for Adult Education, Bonn, 2022–2024)

• Seminar Educational Psychology / Lifespan Psychology (B.Sc.), University of Lübeck, 2024–2025
• Empirical research practicum (B.Sc. Psychology), FernUniversität in Hagen, 2019–2021
• Research Methods and Statistics (B.Sc. Psychology), University of Applied Sciences Europe, Berlin, 2018–2019
• Introduction to Work and Organisational Psychology (B.Sc.) and Service Management Practice (M.Sc.), Economics, University of Rostock, 2016–2018
• Tutorials in Work and Organisational Psychology and in Research Methods and Statistics (B.Sc. Psychology), FernUniversität in Hagen, 2013–2016
• Supervision of more than ten bachelor’s and more than ten master’s theses
• Lecturer in music theory, Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin, 2008–2014

Professional Career

• since 04/2026: Research Associate, Institute of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, Rostock University Medical Center
• 10/2024–03/2026: Research Associate, Chair of Health and Prevention, University of Greifswald
• 08/2024–12/2025: Research Associate, Institute of Psychology I, University of Lübeck
• 01/2022–07/2024: Research Associate, German Institute for Adult Education (DIE), Bonn
• 09/2019–12/2021: Research Associate / Lecturer, Social Psychology, FernUniversität in Hagen
• 05/2018–08/2019: Administrative staff and lecturer, University of Applied Sciences Europe, Berlin
• 10/2016–04/2018: Research Associate, Chair of Organisational and Personnel Psychology, University of Rostock
• 04/2016–09/2016: Research Associate, Work and Organisational Psychology, FernUniversität in Hagen
• 04/2013–03/2016: Student/graduate assistant and online tutor, FernUniversität in Hagen
• 2004–2014: Freelance work, incl. lecturer at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin

Academic Background

• 2021: Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat., magna cum laude), FernUniversität in Hagen; dissertation “Dark personality and collaboration in virtual contexts”
• 2015: M.Sc. Psychology, FernUniversität in Hagen
• 2013: B.Sc. Psychology, FernUniversität in Hagen
• 2005–2006: Semester abroad (Sonology), Royal Conservatoire The Hague
• 2005/2006: Diplomas in composition and in music theory (music education), Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin

• German Psychological Society (DGPs)
• Professional Association of German Psychologists (BDP), incl. member of the extended board of the section for education and training (AFW)
• Systemische Gesellschaft (SG)
• Neue Gesellschaft für Psychologie (NGfP)

• Reviewer for conferences: EARLI Conference (2023, 2025), GEBF Conference (2025), Congress of the German Psychological Society (DGPs, 2018)

• ORCID
• Google Scholar
• ResearchGate
• LinkedIn

Peer-reviewed or non-peer-reviewed publications

• Zinke, N., & Gropengießer, K. (2025). Conspiracy theories as a source of social stigma in the age of Corona: A replication of a study by Lantian et al. (2018). Collabra: Psychology, 11(1). doi.org/10.1525/collabra.147230
• Zinke, N., Ritz, A., & Bunzeck, N. (2025). Mindfulness-based interventions and student wellbeing: Can digital group meetings enhance app-based training? Frontiers in Education, 10. doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2025.1613894
• Lenski, S., Zinke, N., Merkt, M., Reich-Stiebert, N., Stürmer, S., & Schröter, H. (2024). Early indicators of study delay and dropout: Test anxiety and its link to exam participation and performance. Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice. https://doi.org/10.1177/15210251241266547

Book chapters

• Gropengießer, K., Zinke, N., Lenski, S., Reich-Stiebert, N., Bayzaei, S., & Stürmer, S. (2026). Diversitätsgerechte Optimierung der E-Prüfungssoftware Dynexite: Eine Mixed-Methods-Studie zur Verbesserung der User Experience. In T. Brüggemann, M. Tuchscherer-Schad & C. Wiepcke (Eds.), The Age of EdTech. Springer VS. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-49955-6_21
• Zinke, N., Lenski, S., Brocker, A., Merkt, M., Gropengießer, K., Stürmer, S., & Schröter, H. (2024). Towards fair and equitable e-assessments for heterogenous groups of learners. In M. Sahin & D. Ifenthaler (Eds.), Assessment Analytics in Education. Springer. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56365-2_19
• Zinke, N., Stürmer, S., & Froehlich, L. (2016). Interkulturelle Kompetenzen: Ein deutschsprachiges Maß zur Evaluation universitärer interkultureller Trainings. In M. Krämer, S. Preiser & K. Brusdeylins (Eds.), Psychologiedidaktik und Evaluation XI (S. 349–358). Shaker.

Conference Papers

• Zinke, N., Ritz, A., & Bunzeck, N. (2026). Achtsamkeitsbasierte Interventionen und studentisches Wohlbefinden: Können digitale Gruppentreffen ein app-basiertes Training verbessern? [Paper presentation]. 16th Conference of Didactics of Psychology and Evaluation, Paderborn.
• Zinke, N., Ritz, A., & Bunzeck, N. (2025). App-delivered mindfulness-based stress reduction, digital social interaction and student mental health [Paper presentation]. 21st EARLI Conference, Graz.
• Zinke, N., Lenski, S., Mertens, U., Kuklick, L., Walpurger, V., Schröter, H., & Merkt, M. (2025). How feedback complexity impacts its evaluation: The role of performance, narcissism and perfectionism [Paper presentation]. 12. GEBF-Kongress, Karlsruhe.
• Zinke, N., Lenski, S., Merkt, M., Reich-Stiebert, N., Stürmer, S., & Schröter, H. (2023). The influence of test anxiety on indicators of dropout and study delay [Paper presentation]. DigiMeet 2023 – Diversity in digital transformation, online.
• Zinke, N., Lenski, S., Merkt, M., Reich-Stiebert, N., Stürmer, S., & Schröter, H. (2023). The influence of test anxiety on indicators of dropout and study delay [Paper presentation]. 20th EARLI Conference, Thessaloniki.
• Zinke, N. (2018). Der Tropfen, der das Fass zum Überlaufen bringt – Dark Tetrad und (deviantes) Verhalten im Team: Die moderierende Wirkung von Selbstwertbedrohung, Frustration und Stress [Poster presentation]. 51. Kongress der DGPs, Frankfurt.
• Zinke, N. (2018). „Das merkt doch eh keiner …“ – Dark Tetrad und manipulatives Arbeitsverhalten in virtuellen vs. Face-to-Face-Teams: Einstellungen, Motivation, Vertrauen und Wahrnehmung von Risiko und Schaden [Paper presentation]. 51. Kongress der DGPs, Frankfurt.
• Zinke, N., Stürmer, S., & Froehlich, L. (2016). Validierung einer deutschsprachigen Skala zur multidimensionalen Erfassung von interkulturellen Kompetenzen in der universitären Ausbildung [Paper presentation]. 11th Conference of Didactics of Psychology and Evaluation, Berlin.

More posts

• Wehrhahn, F., Lenski, S., Gropengießer, K., Bader, E., Zinke, N., Bardenhewer, R., Basyrova, E., Bayzaei, S., Breuer, M., Gerards, M., Heuvemann, D., Ismayilov, A., Köppchen, B., Merkt, M., Persike, M., Quade, K., Schroeder, U., Schröter, H., Schwarz, A., Stadler, I., Stürmer, S., & Thelen, K. (2025). E-Prüfungen: Assessment Analytics im Kontext. Ein Handbuch für die Praxis. peDOCS. doi.org/10.25656/01:34493
• Zinke, N. (2022). Dunkle Persönlichkeit und Kollaboration in virtuellen Kontexten: Dark Traits im virtuellen Arbeitskontext [Doctoral dissertation]. FernUniversität in Hagen. ub-deposit.fernuni-hagen.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/mir_derivate_00002251/Diss_Zinke_Dark_Traits_2022.pdf