Lukas Schellenberg

LIFE Fellow since 2025, University of Zurich

During my master’s studies in psychology at the University of Zurich, I worked as a research intern at the lab for Individual Differences and Assessment, led by Wiebke Bleidorn. This experience allowed me to gain initial hands-on research experience and sparked a strong interest in personality development, personality-environment transactions, and longitudinal data analysis. This interest was further strengthened during my master’s thesis which examined how loneliness and personality traits interact with one another over time. Consequently, after completing my master’s degree in summer 2025, I started as PhD student and predoctoral researcher at the lab for Individual Differences and Assessment in September 2025. My dissertation focuses on the developmental transactions between loneliness, personality traits, life events, and life outcomes across multiple timescales and stages of life. Moreover, I am interested in how daily events relate to broader psychological functioning and well-being across varying timescales, thereby bridging moment-to-moment processes with long-term developmental dynamics.

Publications

Schellenberg, L., Altorfer, M. J., & Haehner, P. (2025). Individual differences in self-esteem trajectories after negative life events: The role of the Big Five personality traits and perceived event characteristics. European Journal of Personality. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070251383960