Dr. Irina Monno
Professional and scientific experience
Since 11/2017
Academic Staff Member
Institute of Psychology, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg
- Teaching: Design and delivery of seminars in General Psychology, Work and Organizational Psychology, Differential Psychology, and Diagnostic Methods
- Research: Cognitive-Affective Mapping (CAM), healthcare for migrant women, New Work and modern work environments, multitasking
07/2017 – 11/2017
Psychological Staff Member
Black Forest Neurology Clinic, Bad Krozingen
- Coaching and counseling in individual and group settings
- Psychological diagnostics
- Performance assessment
04/2015 – 12/2016
Psychological Staff Member
Transfer GmbH, Nuremberg
- Coaching and conflict management in individual and group settings
- Expansion of cooperation with public clients and regional companies
- Involvement in concept development
- Psychosocial counseling
03/2017 – 06/2017
Research Assistant
Medical Psychology, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg
- Seminar: „Scientific Thinking and Practice“ in Medicine
2004 – 2015
Occupational Therapist (employed and freelance)
Bayreuth, Nuremberg
- Restoration and maintenance of functional capacity in daily and/or professional life
- Individual therapy
- Group therapy
Education
07/2023
Doctorate in Psychology
Institute of Psychology, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg
- Dissertation topic: „Temporal Dynamics in Multitasking: Expectations vs. Limitations“ (summa cum laude)
10/2014 – 01/2018
M.Sc. Psychology
FernUniversität in Hagen (distance learning, part-time)
04/2011 – 06/2014
B.Sc. Psychology
FernUniversität in Hagen (distance learning, part-time)
09/2001 – 07/2004
State-Certified Occupational Therapist
Vocational School for Occupational Therapy, Bayreuth
in prep
- Monno I., Kerstan, S., Franz, J., Langer, M. (in prep). Escape in Open Space: New (Team)Work – The Influence of Artificial Intelligence and Different Office-Environments on Teamwork.
- Monno I., Sachs, S. (in prep). Escape in Open Space – An experimental laboratory study investigating the benefits of modern workplace design.
- Monno, I., Gorky, M., Fenn, J., Fall, S., & Kiesel, A. (in prep). Introducing Cognitive-Affective Mapping (CAM) to Social Work: A Digital Tool to Foster Multi-Stakeholder Communication – An Example from the Debate on Labor Market Integration of Migrants.
- Fenn, J., Estadieu, L., Gorki, M., Monno, I., Tauber, F., Teichmann, J., Levy-Tzedek, S., Müller, O., Kiesel A. (under revision). What drives the perception of soft robots compared to rigid robots? A case study on risks and benefits of soft vs. rigid robots in Germany.
- Monno, I., Jurczyk, V., Kiesel, A., Poray, L., & Thomaschke, R. (in prep). Time-based Predictability of Forced Task Transitions Affects Free Choice Task Transitions.
- Zoghlami, L., Thomaschke, R., Kunde, W., Wirth, R., Monno, I. (in prep). The effects of event-based time expectancy and time-based event expectancy on user-response speed in multitasking.
2025
- Monno, I., Dahlinger, P., Miller, J., Neumann, G., & Kiesel, A. (2025). Identifying individual cost-balancing strategies when self-organizing task switching. Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance, 10.1037/xhp0001326. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001326
2022
- Broeker, L., Brüning, J., Fandakova, Y., Khosravani, N., Kiesel, A., Kubik, V., Kübler, S., Manzey, D., Monno, I., Schubert, T., Raab, M. (2022). Individual differences fill the uncharted intersections between cognitive structure, flexibility and plasticity in multitasking. Psychological Review, 129(6), 1486–1494. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000376
2021
- Langhanns, C., Monno, I., Maurer, H., Ebel, J., Müller, H., & Kiesel A. (2021). The self-organized task switching paradigm: Movement effort matters. Acta Psychologica. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2021.103446
- Monno, I., Aufschnaiter, S., Ehret, S., Kiesel, A., Poljac, E., & Thomaschke., R. (2021). Time-based task expectancy: perceptual task indicator expectancy or expectancy of post-perceptual task components? Psychological Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01588-1
- Monno, I., Spitzer, M., Miller, J., Dignath, D., & Kiesel, A. (2021). Scaling of the Parameters for Cost Balancing in Self-Organized Task Switching. Journal of Cognition, 4 (1), 1 – 16. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.137
- Monno, I. (2024). Motor-cognitive interference – insights from self-organized task switching. Forschungskolloquium Trainings- und Bewegungswissenschaft WiSe 2024/25. Institut für Sport und Sportwissenschaft, Universität Freiburg. November 26. Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. [talk]
- Monno, I., Waldvogel, J., Dehner, J., Klingele, F., Kiesel, A., & Granacher, U. (2024). Does High-Intensity Physical Exercise affect Cognitive Flexibility? 19. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Verhaltensmedizin und Verhaltensmodifikation e.V. (DGVM) – 4 K: Körper, Kognition, Kreativität, Kommunikation. October 9 -11, 2024, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. [talk]
- Monno, I., Jöns, I., & Kiesel, A. (2024). Escape in Open Space – Eine experimentelle Laborstudie zur Untersuchung der Vorteile moderner Arbeitsplatzgestaltung. 53. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs). September 16 -19, 2024, Wien, Austria. [talk]
- Monno, I., & Kiesel, A. (2024). Reliability of Switch Costs in Self-Organized Task Switching. 66 Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP). March 17-20, 2024, Regensburg, Germany. [Posterpresentation]
- Monno, I., & Kiesel, A. (2023). Determinants of strategically balancing different temporal costs in self-organized task switching. Psychonomic Society 2023 Annual Meeting, November 16-19, 2023. San Francisco, California, USA. [Posterpresentation]
- Livanec, S., Reuter, L., Fenn, J., Stumpf, M., & Kiesel, A. (2022). Life-like, adaptive and energy-autonomous materials systems: Anticipatory technology acceptance prediction with Cognitive-Affective Mapping (CAMing). Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs). September 10-15, 2022, Hildesheim, Germany. [talk, on behalf of Sabrina Livanec]
- Kiesel, A., Monno I., & Thomaschke, R. (2022). Zeitwahrnehmung und Aufgabenauswahl beim selbstorganisierten Aufgabenwechsel. 52. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs). September 10-15, 2022, Hildesheim, Germany. [talk, on behalf of Andrea Kiesel]
- Monno, I., Jurczyk, V., Kiesel, A., & Thomaschke, R. (2022). Does temporal predictability of task transitions impact voluntary task switching? 22ST Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP). 29 August – 01 September 2022, Lille, France. [talk]
- Monno, I. & Kiesel, A. (2022). Individual preferences for the cost-balancing strategies in the self-organized task switching. 64 Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP). March 20-23, 2022, Köln, Germany. [online-talk]
- Monno, I., Langhanns. C., Maurer, H., Ebel, J., Müller, H., & Kiesel, A. (2021). The Self-Organized Task Switching Paradigm—Movement Effort Matters. Psychonomic Society 2021 Annual Meeting, November 4-7, 2021. A virtual conference. [Posterpresentation]
- Monno, I., Özoglu, E., Thomaschke, R., & Kiesel, A. (2021). Do different time perception trainings impact individual task-switching performance? 63 Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP). March 14-16, 2021, Ulm, Germany. [online-talk]
- Monno, I. & Kiesel, A. (2020). Optimization criteria of self-organized task switching: tradeoff between waiting costs and switch costs in multitasking. 62 Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP). March 22-25, 2020, Jena, Germany. [Talk. Cancelled due to pandemic]
- Monno, I., Jurczyk, V., Dreisbach, G., Kiesel, A. & Thomaschke, R. (2019). Does time-based expectancy increase voluntary switch rate? 21ST Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP). September 25-28, 2019 Tenerife, Spain. [Posterpresentation]
- Monno, I. & Kiesel, A. (2018). Self-organized versus externally controlled task scheduling when facing multiple cognitive task requirements. Kickoff Meeting des DFG SPP 1772, November 7-9, 2018, Aachen, Germany. [talk]
- Monno, I., Aufschnaiter, S., Ehret, S., Kiesel, A., & Thomaschke, R. (2018). Perceptual cue expectancy or expectancy of post-perceptual task components? The 41 European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP). August 26-30, 2018, Trieste, Italy. [Posterpresentation]
- Monno, I., Aufschnaiter, S., Ehret, S., Kiesel, A., & Thomaschke, R. (2018). Perceptual cue expectancy or expectancy of post-perceptual task components? International Symposium of the DFG Priority Program (SPP 1772). April 24-27, 2018, Rauischholzhausen, Germany. [Posterpresentation]
- Monno, I., Zhao, F., Gaschler, R., & Thomaschke, R. (2018). The influence of sequential structure and temporal effect predictability on dual-task interference. 60 Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP). March 11-14, 2018, Marburg, Germany. [Posterpresentation]
- Monno, I. (2023). Multitasking/Stress und Gesundheit. University Health Day an der Universität Freiburg. Oktober 4, 2023, Freiburg. [workshop] https://uni-freiburg.de/universitaet/events/1876/