Philipp Jugert

Philipp Jugert is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Duisburg-Essen, where he has been based since 2018. Jugert completed a Diplom at Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität Greifswald in 2004, an MSc at the University of Auckland in 2006, and a PhD at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena in 2009, after which he held a postdoctoral position at Jena before moving to Universität Leipzig as an Assistant Professor in 2011. Jugert's research addresses acculturation and cultural adaptation across development, with particular attention to immigrant youth, longitudinal methods, and the dynamics of acculturative change over the lifespan. Related lines of work examine ethnic-racial identity, cross-ethnic friendships, discrimination experiences in school contexts, and the development of European identity among adolescents.