My research is focused on health-diversity in the workplace, particularly chronic health conditions and worklife.

My research questions include:

- How people with chronic illnesses (e.g., multiple sclerosis, inflammatory bowel diseases, endometriosis) experience work life

- How illness symptoms affect behavior at work (e.g. attendance behavior / illness disclosure) and how work affects health management behavior 

- How people with gynecological health problems (e.g., period pain) manage pain during working hours

- How leaders, managers, and organizations can support employees with chronic health conditions

- The role of stereotyping and stigmatization of chronic conditions and menstruation and their effects on health- and illness related behaviors 

I finished my PhD in the field of organizational psychology under the supervision of Dr. Bertolt Meyer at TU Chemnitz, Germany in 2019.  In my dissertation, I analyzed the origins and developments of leadership perceptions with a specific focus on interpersonal behavior. In general, I aim at integrating theoretical and methodological approaches from psychology, biology, computer science, and political science in my research projects. During my PhD, I worked as a researcher and teacher at the Professorship of Organizational Psychology and the Professorship of Social Psychology at TU Chemnitz. From 2019 to 2021, I worked as an assistant professor (Organizational Psychology) at VU Amsterdam. 

• Current topics: Introduction to Sports and Performance Psychology
• Work, Motivation, & Health 
• MAPS
• Master thesis supervision

Editorial Board Member

• Small Group Research

Reviewer

• Health Psychology
• European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
• The Journal of Social Psychology
• Human Factors 
• European Journal of Personality
• German Journal of Human Resource Management 
• Academy of Management Perspectives
• Applied Psychology: An International Review

Publications in peer-reviewed journals

Cook, A. (S.), & van den Hoek, R. (2023). Period pain presenteeism: investigating associations of working while experiencing dysmenorrhea. Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology, 44(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/0167482X.2023.2236294 

Cook, A. (S.), & Zill, A. (2023). Individual health status as a resource: Analyzing associations between perceived illness symptom severity, burnout, and work engagement among employees with autoimmune diseases. Applied Psychology: An International Review. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.12464 

Cook, A. (S.) & Zill, A. (2021). Working with type 1 diabetes. Investigating the associations between diabetes-related distress, burnout and job satisfaction. Frontiers in Psychology, 2, 697833. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.697833

Cook, A. (S.), Zill, A., & Meyer, B. (2021). Perceiving leadership structures in teams: Effects of cognitive schemas and perceived communication. Small Group Research, 52(3),  https://doi.org/10.1177/1046496420950480

Cook, A. (S.), Zill, A., & Meyer, B. (2020). Observing leadership as behavior in teams and herds – An ethological approach to shared leadership research. Leadership Quarterly, 31(2), 101296. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2019.05.003

Zill, A., Knoll, M., Cook, A. (S.), & Meyer, B. (2020). When do followers compensate for leader silence? The motivating role of leader injustice. Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, 27(1), 65-79. http://doi.org/10.1177/1548051818820861

Cook. A. (S.), Meyer, B., Gockel, C., & Zill, A. (2019). Adapting leadership perceptions across tasks: Micro origins of informal leadership transitions. Small Group Research, 50(2), 227-265. http://doi.org/10.1177/1046496418810437

Book chapters

Knoll, M., Struck, T., Zill, A., & Cook, A. (S.) (2023). Führung mit chronischen Erkrankungen. In J. Felfe & R. Van Dick (Eds.), Handbuch Mitarbeiterführung (pp. 1–14). Springer Reference Psychologie. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55213-7_61-1

Cook, A. (S.) & Meyer, B. (2017). Assessing leadership behavior with observational and sensor-based methods: A brief overview. In B. Schyns, P. Neves, & R. Hall (Eds.) Handbook of Methods in Leadership Research (pp. 73-102). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Publication in Conference Proceedings

Cook A. & Zill, A. (2021). Working with chronic illness: Investigating individual health status and burnout. Academy of Management Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2021.11557abstract

Cook A. (2018). An ethological approach towards the analysis of dyadic behavior in informal leadership research. Academy of Management Proceedings. http://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2018.12003abstract