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RCBS Europe is part of a network of professional partners, all of whom are experts in their fields. The company is run by Dr. Carsten Riepe [Curriculum Vitae]. A trained driving instructor from Hamburg, Germany's second largest city, Dr. Riepe studied psychology at the University of Hamburg, where he received both his graduate degree (Diplom-Psychologe; equivalent to a master's degree) and his doctoral degree (Dr. phil.; equivalent to a Ph.D.). During his education, Dr. Riepe specialised in psychological research methods, statistics, and psychodiagnostics while choosing sociology and psychiatry as minor subjects. His master's thesis was about mood fluctuations, his doctoral dissertation about nutrition behaviour. Both studies investigated emotional states and traits as well as behavioural performances in everyday environments.

For three decades, Dr. Riepe has worked in empirical social research where he held positions in different organisations and sectors, both commercial and academic. Most of his research was concerned with the prediction and explanation of everyday behaviours as they unfold in natural settings over time. Sample sizes ranged from Ns smaller than 100 to many thousand participants in multi-country surveys. In some of these studies huge amounts of data were generated at the individual level across time and situations.

Dr. Riepe served as Senior Research Manager and Senior Data Analyst in a medium-sized market research agency in Hamburg, where he conducted national and international research on fast moving consumer goods, particularly on the perception, acceptance, and usage of food products. He helped global players of the food industry with gaining relevant insights into consumers’ food related needs and behaviours. He also headed a methods and statistics unit where he and his colleagues made complex data sets tell their hidden stories.

As a research scientist, Dr. Carsten Riepe worked for the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) in Berlin, Germany, and for the Thünen-Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries in Rostock, Germany, where he conducted research at the interface between social and biological sciences. Providing fact-based information for public discourse, he investigated the perception and evaluation of aquatic ecosystems in the context of the sustainable production, management, and use of fishes as food for humans, with a focus on recreational fisheries. Against the backdrop of an ever-growing anthropogenic pressure on global biodiversity, he also contributed to the understanding of the human dimensions of native species conservation and the deteriorating effects that the introduction of nonnative species and genotypes may have on a recipient ecosystem's native biodiversity.

Dr. Riepe also worked as a survey researcher at the University of Mannheim, Germany, where he contributed to the setup of the German Internet Panel (GIP). The GIP is a longitudinal study conducted at the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB 884) "Political Economy of Reforms", funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Though its data are collected by means of the internet, the GIP represents a true random sample of the general population of Germany.

For many years, Dr. Carsten Riepe has been a lecturer at the University of Hamburg, Institute of Psychology, where he held seminars on market research (for graduate students) and on differential psychology (for undergraduates). Dr. Riepe also (co-)authored several scientific papers and reports and gave presentations at international conferences.

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