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 ('Oberassistent') at the Psychology Department of the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He received his PhD in 1997 and his habilitation (venia legendi, title 'Privatdozent') in 2004 from the University of Tübingen, Germany. In 1992, he received an M.A. in Psychology from Sonoma State University, California.

Ulf-Dietrich Reips is working on Internet-based research methodologies, in particular Internet-based psychological experimenting (a method used in experimental psychology), the psychology of the Internet, 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 (DGOF). In 2005, Reips was elected the first non-North American president of the Society for Computers in Psychology (SCiP).

Ulf-Dietrich Reips is the founding editor of the International Journal of Internet Science, currently serving (jointly with Uwe Matzat).