Dr. Silvana Weber

Silvana Weber has been a research assistant, trainer, and consultant at the LMU Center for Leadership and People Management since November 2023. Her main tasks at the Center are research supervision and personnel development. She is also the lead in coaching and consulting. She studied Psychology (B.Sc. and M.Sc.) at the Georg-August University of Göttingen and UC Berkeley. After research stays at UNSW Sydney and the University of Linz, she completed her dissertation on stereotypes and cultural identity among young people with a migration background at the University of Koblenz-Landau in 2016. In addition to her work at the CLPM, she is doing her habilitation on “Social Identity and Media” at the University of Würzburg, where she has been teaching and researching since 2017. As a trained systemic consultant and therapist, she also works as a freelancer.

Research Areas

• Social identity
• Gender and diversity
• Stereotypes
• Social comparisons
• Health and well-being
• New media

Practical Experience

• Systemic counseling and therapy for individuals, couples, and organizations
• Talks and workshops (e.g., on gender stereotypes in the media, self-presentation on social media, science communication)
• Lecturing (University of Würzburg & University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
• Science communication and transfer (e.g., Co-editor of the In-Mind Magazine, "What Does Envy Do to Us?" on Terra Xplore)