Her research focusses on three fundamental issues in modern societies worldwide: (1) public sector corruption , (2) bureaucratic rule breaking , and (3) the psychological effects of ‘ publicness’ on decision making .
These topics are particularly relevant for citizens’ trust in public institutions and significantly affect social cohesion. With her topical focus on the behavioral micro-level foundations of administrative behavior, as well as her proven expertise in quantitative, experimental, and psychometric research methods , she is an expert in behavioral public administration research.
Having received her PhD in 2020 from the University of Hamburg, Dr. Kristina S. Weißmüller joined the VU from the University of Bern, where she worked as a postdoc researcher and received the Innovative Teaching Prize 2021 for her lectures in public management. She is co-initiator and the principal investigator (PI) of the CorPuS project , a multinational consortium of 21 researchers worldwide to research public sector corruption. Kristina is a permanent research fellow of the Research Group for Public Inte