Dr Ilka is currently Associate Professor at the London School of Economics in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science. Previously, she was a Lecturer at the University of Surrey and a Post-doc at the University of Exeter in the Department of Psychology. She received her PhD in Social Psychology from the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (Germany) and an MSc (Dipl.-Psych.) from Free University Berlin.   She specializes in social identity dynamics. Her research covers the effect of mergers on group identities, how social identity can affect well-being under different circumstances and on the impact of multiple social i dentities on wellbeing and performance. Most recently, she also investigates social identity dynamics in leadership and the ethics of online research.