Tessa Schick

Research Profile

Tessa Schick is a research assistant and doctoral candidate at the Max Weber Institute for Sociology at Heidelberg University. In her research, she combines her studies in health sciences and sociology and focuses broadly on issues in environmental sociology and health, with a methodological emphasis on quantitative analysis. Her dissertation examines how subjectively perceived and objectively measured environmental conditions affect health factors, as well as the influence of climate change skepticism on environmental perception and its potential consequences for health and preventive behavior. She also serves as a research assistant on the GLEN research project.

Tessa Schick

Lebenslauf

Since 03/2026                   Research Associate at the Max Weber Institute for Sociology (MWI) at Heidelberg University and in the                                                           “German Longitudinal Environmental Study” (GLEN) research project

04/2024-02/2026              Research Assistant at the Chair of Quantitative Social Research at Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) and in                                               the GLEN research project

10/2023-03/2024              Research Assistant at the Chair of Social Determinants of Health at the Technical University of Munich

10/2021-02/2024              M.A. in Sociology, LMU Munich

08/2022-12/2022              Erasmus, M.Res. in Social Science Research, Queen’s University Belfast

10/2018-04/2021               M.Sc. in Health Science – Prevention and Health Promotion, Technical University of Munich

Presentations

09/2025: Schick, Tessa. (Perceived) air quality and life satisfaction. Presentation at the 42nd Congress of the German Sociological Association, Duisburg, September 24, 2025.

07/2025: Schick, Tessa. (Perceived) air quality and life satisfaction: Accounting for noise. Presentation at the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS) Conference, Luxembourg, July 23, 2025.