Prof. Dr. Jan Rummel

Prof. Dr. Jan ­ Rummel [âś“]

Contact

Address

Room: A025
HauptstraĂźe 49
69117 Heidelberg

Main Research Interests

  • Future-oriented Cognition
  • Metacognition
  • Memory and Forgetting
  • Mind Wandering
  • Psychology of Climate Action

Grants

  • 2022-2024: Heisenberg Professorship for Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Self-Regulation (Grant no: RU1996/4-1).
  • 2021-2023:Individual grant from the German Research Foundation: "The role of attentional and metacognitive control for mind-wandering regulation  (Grant no: RU1996/3-1).
  • 2020-2022: Heisenberg Professorship for Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Self-Regulation (Grant no: RU1996/2-1).
  • 2015-2018: Individual grant from the German Research Foundation (with C. Dennis Boywitt, U Mannheim, as co PI): “Adaptive mechanisms of mind-wandering: A State-Trait model” (Grant no: RU1996/1-1).
  • 11/2016: Selected Speaker Award at the  Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society
  • 2017-2018: "What makes us smart? - Neurocognitive approaches to explaining the relationship between mental speed and mental abilities by attentional lapses” (with A.-L Schubert, Institute of Psychology; funded by the FRONTIERS program of the excellence initiative of the German Research Foundation and Heidelberg University)
  • 2016-2017: “Self-regulation and mindfulness in the classroom“ (with M. Ottilie Frenkel, Institute for Sports Sciences; funded by the excellence initiative of the German Research Foundation)
  • 2016-2017: “Effects of internet anonymity on the quality of political online discussions“ (with Wolf J. SchĂĽnemann & Sebastian Harnisch, Institute for Political Science; funded by the excellence initiative of the German Research Foundation)
  • 2015-2016: “Inter-individual differences in mind-wandering and their role for intelligence and personality across different cultures” (with Dirk Hagemann, Department of Psychology & Manuel Rauchholz, Institute for Cultural Antropology; funded by the excellence initiative of the German Research Foundation)
  • 11/2015: DAAD-Travel Grant for attending the Annual Meeting Psychonomic Society
  • 2014-2015: “Self-regulation and exercise behavior“ (with Chris Englert, Institute for Sport Science; funded by the excellence initiative of the German Research Foundation)
  • 11/2013: DAAD-Travel Grant for attending the Annual Meeting Psychonomic Society
  • 05/2012: Autonomiefonds from the University of Mannheim: Memory for context-bound intentions in older age.
  • 08/2011-12/2011: Travel grant from the German Exchange Service (DAAD) for a research stay at Furman University, SC, USA (with Dr. Gilles O. Einstein)

Reviewer Activities

  • Action Editor: Psychological Research
  • Editorial board member: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition | Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
  • Ad-hoc reviewer for grant proposals: German Research Foundation, Foundation for Polish Science, National Science Foundation, USA, Research Foundation - Flanders.
  • Ad-hoc reviewer for journal submissions: Acta Psychologica; Applied Cognitive Psychology; Behavioral Research Methods; British Journal of Psychology; Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience; Current Directions on Psychological Science; Consciousness & Cognition; Emotion;  European Journal of Ageing; European Journal of Psychological Assessment;  European Review of Applied Psychology; Emotion; Experimental Psychology; Frontiers in Psychology; International Journal of Psychophysiology;  Journal of Cognitive Psychology;  Journal of Gerontology; Journal of Experimental Child Psychology; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied;  Journal of Experimental Psychology: General; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning; Memory, & Cognition;  Journal of Gerontology; Journal of Memory and Language; Memory; Memory & Cognition; Neuropsychologica;  Neuropsychological Rehabilitation;  Neuropsychology; PLOS One; Psychiatry Research; Psychonomic Bulletin and Review; Psychology of Sport and Exercise; Psychooncology; Psychophysiology; Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology; Social Psychology; Sport, Exercise, & Performance Psychology; Swiss Journal of Psychology; Experimental Psychology; Social Psychology; Sport, Exercise, & Performance Psychology; Swiss Journal of Psychology

Memberships

  • since 05/2012  Member/fellow of the Psychonomic Society
  • since 04/2012  Member of the Deutschen Gesellschaft fĂĽr Psychologie (DGPs)
  • since 01/2009  Member of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP)

Organization of Meetings and Symposia

  • Small group meeting “Theoretical and Applied Advances in Prospective Memory Research” at Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, 01.-03. July 2018 (supported by the Hengstberger Foundation 12,000€).
  • Symposium “Prospective Memory: Recent theoretical advances and new empirical findings“ at the Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology(ESCoP), Potsdam, 3.-6. September 2017.
  • Co-organization of the Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologinnen und Psychologen (TeaP), 21.-23. March 2016 in Heidelberg (with Joachim Funke und Andreas VoĂź, Heidelberg University).
  • Symposium “Trends in Prospective Memory Research“ at the Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologinnen und Psychologen, Vienna, 24.-27. March 2013 (with Sebastian Horn, Max-Planck Institut fĂĽr Bildungsforschung, Berlin).
  • Symposium “Current Developments in Prospective Memory“ at the Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologinnen und Psychologen, Mannheim, 01.-04. April 2012 (with C. Dennis Boywitt, Mannheim).
  • Symposium “Kognitive Prozesse des Prospektiven Gedächtnisses“ at the Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologinnen und Psychologen, SaarbrĂĽcken, 22.-24. March 2010 (with Thorsten Meiser, University of Mannheim).

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Administrative Duties at Heidelberg University

  • Member of the Field of Focus 4 Research Council
  • Member HEiKa board of directors (Heidelberg Karlsruhe Research Partnership)
  • Head of the Election Committee for Stipends and Awards at our faculty

Current and Former Positions

  • since 09/2024          Regular Professor for Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Self-Regulation
  • 09/2019-08/2024    Heisenberg Professor for Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Self-Regulation (funded by the DFG)
  • 09/2013-08/2019    Principal investigator of the Cognition and Attention Regulation Lab (CARL) at Heidelberg University
  • 02/2011-08/2013    Research associate (post-doc) at the University of Mannheim
  • 08/2010-01/2011    Visiting researcher at Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina
  • 02/2008-08/2010    Research associate (pre-doc) at the Universities of Marburg and Mannheim

Education

  • 06/2017    Venia legendi for psychology (Privatdozent); Heidelberg University, Germany
  • 11/2011    Dr. rer. nat.; University of Marburg, Germany
  • 12/2007    Diploma (MSc. equivalent) in psychology; Heidelberg University, Germany



Five Key Publications

  • Hemming, W., Sadus, K., & Rummel, J. (2025). Individual differences in time-based prospective memory: The roles of working memory and time monitoring. Journal of Memory and Language, 140, 104583. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2024.104583
  • Brandenstein, N., Ackermann, K., Aeschbach, N., & Rummel, J. (2023). The key determinants of individual greenhouse gas emissions in Germany are mostly domain-specific. Communications Earth & Environment, 4, 422. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-01092-x
  • Rummel, J., Smeekens, B. A., & Kane, M. J. (2017). Dealing with prospective memory demands while performing an ongoing task: Shared processing, increased on-task focus, or both?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 43, 1047-1062.
  • Rummel, J., Marevic, I., & Kuhlmann, B. G. (2016). Investigating storage and retrieval processes of directed forgetting: A model-based approach. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 42, 1526-1543.
  • Rummel, J. & Boywitt, C. D (2014). Controlling the stream of thought: Working memory capacity predicts adjustment of mind-wandering to situational demands. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 21, 1309-1315.

A full list of publications can be found here.