In January 2018, I joined the Department of Public and Organizational Health at the EBPI in Zurich as a PhD candidate. After studies in the PhD programs of the EBPI at the Life Science Zurich Grad School (University and ETH Zurich) and the Swiss School of Public Health SSPH+, I defended my thesis in February 2021.

I am interested in proactivity (crafting), its predictors and its relation to health, well-being, and performance outcomes. My team and I are investigating this in a research project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Dutch Research Council (craft4health).

In addition, I took the chance to be part of the Digital Society Initiative - Community Work at the University of Zurich. As part of a collaboration, we conduct a global survey of the future of work.

A collaboration with the University Hospital for Mental Health, Bern resulted in a rapid review and meta-analysis on mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

As part of our team, I teach at UZH, Faculty of Science (MNF), Faculty of Medicine, and the ETH Zurich (Department of Management, Technology, and Economics). 

Before coming to Zurich, I studied Social Sciences (Political Science, Psychology and Sociology) at the University of Mannheim and Psychology at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany. I was a research associate and lecturer at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg and lectured at the University of Applied Science Freiburg and the University of Education Heidelberg.

CV Philipp Kerksieck (PDF, 118 KB)

Google Scholar Profile

• A global survey of the future of work
• Crafting life for health and wellbeing: Understanding different types of crafting in everyday life and in challenging times (Craft4Health)

• Kerksieck, P., Ballouz, T., Haile, S. R., Schumacher, C., Lacy, J., Domenghino, A., Fehr, J. S., Bauer, G. F., Dressel, H., Puhan, M. A., & Menges, D. (2023). Post COVID-19 Condition, Work Ability and Occupational Changes: Results from a Population-based Cohort. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.04.17.23288664

• Kerksieck P, Brauchli R, De Bloom J, Shimazu A, Kujanpää M, Lanz M, Bauer GF. (2022) Crafting work-nonwork balance involving life domain boundaries: Development and validation of a novel scale across five countries. Frontiers Psychology - Organizational Psychology. 13, Article 892120. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.892120
• Kujanpää, M., Syrek, C., Tay, L., Kinnunen, U., Mäkikangas, A., Shimazu, A., Wiese, C. W., Brauchli, R., Bauer, GF., Kerksieck, P., Toyama, H., & Bloom, J. de (2022). Needs-based off-job crafting across different life domains and contexts: Testing a novel conceptual and measurement approach. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, Article 959296. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.959296
• Brauchli, R., Kerksieck, P., Tušl, M., & Bauer, G. F. (2022). Staying healthy during COVID-19 crisis: Well-being and salutogenic crafting among German and Swiss working population. Health Promotion International, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daac004
• Kujanpää, M., Syrek, C., Tay, L., Kinnunen, U., Mäkikangas, A., Shimazu, A., Wiese, C. W., Brauchli, R., Bauer, G. F., Kerksieck, P., Toyama, H., & Bloom, J. de (2022). Needs-based off-job crafting across different life domains and contexts: Testing a novel conceptual and measurement approach. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, Article 959296. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.959296
• Pijpker, R., Kerksieck, P., Tušl, M., De Bloom, J., Brauchli, R., & Bauer, G. F. (2022). The Role of Off-Job Crafting in Burnout Prevention during COVID-19 Crisis: A Longitudinal Study. International Journal of