Professor Dr. rer. nat. Matthias Schmidt has been Professor of Work and Organizational Psychology at Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences since 2013. His research focuses on mental health and safety in the workplace. He plays a leading role in the further development of the BASA procedure ("Assessment of Working Conditions - Screening for Workplace Owners"), which records psychosocial risks in the working environment. The BASA procedure is used, among other things, to systematically analyze psychological stress and implement suitable measures to improve working conditions. He has headed the BASA network since 2019 and the DIGITALSTRESS research center since 2020, which focuses on human-machine communication in AI applications. This work helps companies to better understand and minimize the mental and physical stress of their employees. His expertise in the field of occupational psychology and health contributes significantly to the promotion of a healthy working environment.
Dr. Gabriele Walter from the BAuA on the development history of BASA I to BASA IV
In addition to his expertise in work and organizational psychology, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Matthias Schmidt also deals with communication psychology and philosophical issues. In the project "Metadoxia and truth - On the objective justifiability of knowledge in the post-factual age", he and his team investigated current challenges in finding objective truth. The work addresses the question of how knowledge remains well-founded and comprehensible and combines philosophical theories with practical questions of modern science.