Evelyn Rihaczek

Background

Evelyn Rihaczek works as a research associate on the project PRO-Health - Creating Prototypes for Global Health from Makerspace to Implementation. The project is an innovative educational project in which master's students of Health Communication (University of Erfurt) and Photonics (Friedrich Schiller University of Jena) develop prototypes and communication strategies to address real-world challenges in global health. Subsequently, they test these solutions in collaboration with users on site.

She completed her Master's degree in Health Communication at the University of Erfurt in 2026 (Master's thesis: The Impact of Communicating Climate Policy Effectiveness on Policy Acceptance: Exploring the Role of an Interactive Simulation Tool) and her Bachelor's degree in Psychology at the University of Würzburg in 2023 (Bachelor's thesis: Human or robot: Preferences for conversation partners in relation to the intimacy of the conversation topic).

Research interest: Global health, interdisciplinary perspectives, science and health communication

Curriculum vitae

Academic career

• 2023 - 2026 M.Sc. Health Communication, University of Erfurt
• 2019 - 2023 B.Sc. Psychology, University of Würzburg

Employment

• Since 2026 Research associate at the chair of Health Communication at the University of Erfurt in the project "PRO-HEALTH Creating Prototypes for Global Health", funded by the Foundation Innovation in University Teaching
• 2024 - 2026 Research assistant at the chair of Health Communication, University of Erfurt
• 2025 Internship at the Federal Ministry of Health (Germany), Berlin
• 2022 Internship Neuropsychology, Reha-Zentrum Hess, Bietigheim-Bissingen
• 2022 Internship at Human Factors, Würzburger Institut für Verkehrswissenschaften GmbH, Veitshöchheim