Johannes Alfons Karl

Johannes Alfons Karl is a Senior Scientist in Psychology at the University of Zurich as of 2025, with concurrent positions as an Adjunct Research Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington and previous tenure as an Assistant Professor at Dublin City University. Karl completed a PhD in Psychology at Victoria University of Wellington in 2021 and an MSc in Cross-Cultural Psychology at the same institution in 2018. Karl's research interests span human values, cross-cultural psychology, measurement invariance, well-being, and digitally mediated social processes, with particular focus on value alignment in political contexts, friendship formation in digital environments, and the cultural validation of psychological scales across diverse populations.