Michael Frese

Education and career

Frese completed his Master of Science at the Free University of Berlin. After studying psychology, Frese worked at the chair for educational and social sciences at Technische Universität Berlin. He received his doctorate in 1978. In 1980, he was a visiting professor at the University of Bremen, and from 1981 until 1983 at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1984, Frese received a professorship for work psychology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. From 1991 to 2009 he held the chair for work and organizational psychology at Justus Liebig University Giessen. In the period from 1995 to 2000, he also held a chair at the University of Amsterdam.

Frese has held a dual appointment at Leuphana University of Lüneburg since 2009. From 2009 until 2020, this was with the National University of Singapore Business School, where he served as department head, and was promoted to Provost Chair in 2016. In 2020, he took a period of leave from the National University of Singapore, and took a position as professor of organization and management at the Asia School of Business.

Frese's research is in the areas of stress, work and health and human-computer interaction. He introduced the concept of error management.