Dr Friederike Hendriks

Dr Friederike Hendriks is Junior Research Group Leader at TU Braunschweig, and a psychologist. She received her PhD at the University of Münster, as part of the interdisciplinary DFG-Research Training Group “Trust and Communication in a Digitized World” and spent her postdoc years in Münster, and at the Leibniz-Institute for Science and Mathematics Education (IPN) in Kiel. Her research focuses on science communication, and especially on trust in science and uncertainty communication, as well as communicating scientists’ identity and communication skills.

At SOCRATES, Friederike Hendriks is especially interested in developing fruitful collaborations between philosophical and psychological approaches to researching trust in science. She will furthermore use the opportunity as Fellow to deepen notions of epistemic trust, values in science, and uncertainty communication as aspects of the science communication training for researchers she develops with her Junior Research Group.