Rolf van Dick studied at Philips University Marburg and received his doctorate in 1999 at the interface of social, organizational and health psychology. He worked as Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology at Aston University, Birmingham and has been Professor of Social Psychology at Goethe University since 2006. He has held visiting professorships in Tuscaloosa (USA, 2001), Rhodes (2002), Katmandu (2009), Rovereto (2016), Beijing and Shanghai (2016) and at the Work Research Institute, Oslo (2016-2018). His research focuses on processes of social identities in organizations, especially in relation to diversity, health, leadership, and mergers. He has more than 300 publications. He was editor of the British Journal of Management and the Journal of Personnel Psychology and associate editor of Leadership Quarterly and European Journal of Work & Organizational Psychology.