Keynote Speaker

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Severin Hornung holds the University of Innsbruck’s newly minted professorship for applied psychology with a focus on social-ecological responsibility and sustainability in work, economy, and society. In preceding years, he worked there as habilitated lecturer and, together with his colleagues, Christine Unterrainer, Thomas Höge, and Wolfgang G. Weber, has founded the Innsbruck Group on Critical Research in Work and Organizational Psychology (I-CROP), as part of the international network for the Future of Work and Organizational Psychology (FoWOP). Prior to that, he has held temporary and visiting assignments in Germany, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, and the United States. His PhD is from the Technical University Munich. His research examines psychological and sociological aspects of the observed neoliberal degradation and the envisioned socio-ecological transformation of work, organizations, and employment relations, focusing on issues of power and control, social inequality and justice, worker wellbeing and mental health, and ethical and socio-moral concerns. He is actively involved in meta-theoretical and disciplinary debates regarding epistemology, ideology, and politics in the broader field of management and organization studies, as well as numerous projects and activities aimed at promoting critical and radical humanist perspectives in organizational scholarship. He serves on the editorial board of the journal Human Relations and is part of the collective of editors for the upcoming (2026) Edward Elgar Handbook of Critical Work and Organizational Psychology.