Elfriede Billmann-Mahecha

Elfriede Billmann-Mahecha received her doctorate in psychology in 1982, with minors in philosophy and Ibero-Romance philology, at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, with a thesis on the philosophy of science. In 1988 she completed her habilitation with an empirical study in developmental psychology and was appointed Akademische Oberrätin. From 1991 to 1994 she was a lecturer at the Institute for Philosophy of Science and Science Studies at the University of Vienna, and she has been a university professor of psychology since 1994. From 2013 to 2020 she was Vice President for Teaching and Studies at Leibniz Universität Hannover. Billmann-Mahecha has been retired since 2021. Her research interests lie in philosophy of science and methodology, moral and identity development, aesthetic development, and development in institutional contexts.