Jérôme Rossier

Jérôme Rossier studied psychology at the University of Lausanne and at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. After work experiences at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, at the National Institute of Health, United-States, and at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, he is currently full professor of vocational and counseling psychology at the Institute of Psychology of the University of Lausanne. He is the editor of the International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance and member of several editorial boards of scientific journals such as the Journal of Vocational Behavior or the Journal of Research in Personality. His teaching areas and research interests include counseling, personality, psychological assessment, and cross-cultural psychology. He published more than 180 scientific articles and book chapters and co-edited in 2015 the Handbook of life design: From practice to theory and from theory to practice. He participated actively to many international research projects, such as the personality across culture research or the international career adaptability project. He is currently member of the Psychological and educational sciences evaluation panel of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) and of the Scientific advisory committee for VET research of the Swiss State secretariat for education, research and innovation (SERI), of the Federal department of economic affairs, education and research (EAER).