Dr Fatih Uenal
About
Fatih Uenal is a postdoctoral researcher at the Consumer Decision & Sustainable Behavior Lab in the Department of Psychology at the University of Geneva. He was previously a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab.
He received his PhD in social sciences from Humboldt University Berlin. His research is situated at the intersection of evolutionary, political, and social psychological theories. Prior to Cambridge, he has worked at the Sidanius lab at Harvard University on social dominance, prejudice, climate change, and prosociality. At Cambridge, he studies dominance motives in intergroup, environmental, and interspecies prosociality. In his work utilizes surveys, experimental methods, and Machine Learning techniques (e.g., Artificial Neural Networks).
Overall, his research aims at contributing to timely and urgent social and political issues through theoretically and methodologically rigorous analysis, advancing scientific theory and methodology. Equally importantly, he is interested in utilizing research to inform public policy and debate in the context of local and global challenges such as climate change with the goal of facilitating prosocial and pro-environmental behavior and collective action.
Academic Career
10/2019 – to present University of Cambridge (UK)
Visiting Postdoc at the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab. "Sharing = Caring? Behaviors benefitting nature, non-human animals, and humans at the intersection of hierarchy, empathy, and resource competition: A psychological and socio-ecological perspective on intraspecies, interspecies, and environmental prosociality across relational-domains."
https://www.sdmlab.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people
09/2018 – to present Harvard University (USA)
Associated Research Fellow at Sidanius Lab. "The resurgence of right-wing populism in the EU and the USA. Islamophobia, anti-immigration, social inequality, protest vote? An analysis of the social psychological underpinnings of support for populism and the role of contextual factors in cross-country comparison."
https://scholar.harvard.edu/fatih-uenal/home
09/2018 – 12/2019 Humboldt University Berlin (Germany)
Visiting Scholar at the Department of Psychology. "Intersectional Discrimination - Ethnic, racial, gender and class disparities in post-migrant Germany."
08/2016 – 08/2018 Harvard University (USA)
Post-doctoral Fellow at Sidanius Lab. "The resurgence of right-wing populism in the EU and the USA. Islamophobia, anti-immigration, social inequality, protest vote? An analysis of the social psychological underpinnings of support for populism and the role of contextual factors in cross-country comparison."
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/sidaniuslab/people/fatih-uenal
03/2017 – 03/2019 Bielefeld University (Germany)
Associated Research Member. Collaboration with Harvard University: A cross-country validated Islamophobia Measure.
10/2015 – 03/2016 Istanbul Şehir University (Turkey)
Visiting researcher. Research-project “The social psychological mechanisms of conspiracy theories in contemporary Turkey.”
10/2013 – 03/2017 Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany)
Doctoral Student in the Discipline of Political Science. Research on “Islamophobia: Structure, Causes, and Consequences.” (summa cum laude)
Scholarship by the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation
03/2013 – 10/2013 University of Bielefeld (Germany)
Doctoral Student in the Discipline of Psychology of Religion / Biographical Research in Contemporary Religion. Dissertation project: "Xenosophia and Xenophobia in Islam. Religiosity, Prejudice and Anomia under young Muslims in Germany. An Analyses from socio-psychological and psychology-of-religions Perspectives"
10/2003 – 07/2011 Free University of Berlin (Germany)
Middle Eastern Studies & Ethnomusicology (M.A.)
Focus on Democracy, Human Rights & Social Development in the MENA Region.
Scholarship by the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation