Prof. Dr. Lisa Marie Warner
Professor of Social Psychology
Biography
Prof. Dr. Lisa Marie Warner studied psychology at the Freie Universität Berlin, specialising in health psychology. She completed her doctorate in the interdisciplinary BMBF joint project PREFER I between the German Centre of Gerontology and the Department of Health Psychology at the Freie Universität Berlin. During her postdoctoral period in the PREFER II project, she designed and tested a group intervention to increase physical activity and voluntary work in old age and an online intervention to promote Mediterranean nutrition and physical activity in the EU Consortium Credits4Health. She completed research stays at Leiden University, Arizona State University and the University of Zurich. From 2016 to 2017, she taught as a visiting professor of social, organisational, and health psychology at the Freie Universität Berlin. Since the winter semester of 2017, Lisa Warner has been a professor of social psychology at the MSB Medical School Berlin. She has been involved in various third-party funded projects, e.g., by the DFG (Prospect), AOK Nordost, the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency (Age_ism project), the National Science Centre Poland (Prospect – Polish part), the Innovation Fund of the Joint Federal Committee (AGE-ADAPT, BRIDGE) and the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (HEAL-HOA and COMPASS-HOA).
Lisa Warner is currently leading the DFG project Prospect ‘Providing Social Support and Health: Conditions and Temporal Dynamics’ (2022-2026) and the Innovation Fund project AGE-ADAPT ‘Use of digital prevention services among older people: adherence despite social disadvantage’ (2026-2029) and is involved in the Innovation Fund project BRIDGE ‘Behavioural and physical activation for multimorbid older patients with depressive symptoms during the inpatient-outpatient transition’ (2022-2028), as well as in the COMPASS-HOA project ‘Alleviating loneliness in older adults living in poverty: A multi-level intervention’ (2025-2029).
Teaching
Her teaching included courses in social, health, personnel, market and advertising psychology as well as gerontology, and experimental internships and research workshops at the Freie Universität Berlin, Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences, and HMU Health and Medical University Potsdam. She completed the university teaching qualification programme ‘SUPPORT for Teaching’ at the Freie Universität Berlin.
Awards
Lisa Warner's scientific achievements have been recognised with Early Career Awards from the International Association of Applied Psychology, the Stress and Anxiety Research Society and the European Health Psychology Society.
Research focus
- Social exchange processes and their impact on health and health behaviour
- Social participation of older people (including promoting voluntary work, images of ageing, loneliness interventions, transition to retirement)
- Health behaviour change (including physical activity, e-health and m-health approaches, active and low-emission mobility)