Academic position

04.2026-present     Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Personality psychology, differential Psychology and Assessment, University of Bern, Switzerland.

01.2025-02.2026     Postdoctoral Researcher, Swiss Federal University of Vocational Education and Training, Lausanne, Switzerland.

09.2020-02.2025     PhD Student and Teaching Assistant in Work and Organizational Psychology, Institute of Work and Organizational Psychology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

Research interest

  • Emotions and individual differences at work
    (e.g., emotional intelligence, affective dynamics, well-being, and performance)
  • Interpersonal communication and social evaluation at work
    (e.g., storytelling, first impressions, and interview performance)
  • Technology in personnel selection
    (e.g., asynchronous video interviews, AI-supported applicant training)

Publications

Germanier, E., Bangerter, A., Orji, K., Schmid Mast, M., Renier, L. A., He, M., & Garner, P. N. (2025). Responses to Past-Behavior Questions in Face-to-Face and Asynchronous Video Interviews: Storytelling, Interview Performance and Criterion Validity. Human Performance.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08959285.2025.2580653.

Germanier, E., He, M., Rufai, A. M., Garner, P. N., Bangerter, A., Renier, L. A., Schmid Mast, M., & Orji, K. (2025). Identifying Storytelling in Job Interviews Using Deep Learning. Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 100688. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr.2025.100688

Bangerter, A., Knutsen, D., Germanier, E., Col, G., & Brosy, J. (2024). Okay as a marker for coordinating transitions in joint actions: Effects of participant role and age in Swiss German and Swiss French interviews. Journal of Pragmatics, 230, 166-186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2024.07.006

Bangerter, A., & Germanier, E. (2022). L’activité narrative (storytelling) dans l’entretien d’embauche. In M. F. Agnoletti & E. Salès-Wuillemin (Eds.), Communications réelles et virtuelles : nouvelles perspectives en psychologie sociale de la communication et du langage. Éditions universitaires de Dijon.