Tim Stonner has been a research associate and doctoral candidate at the Chair of Market and Consumer Psychology since October 2024. Prior to that, he completed a trainee in commerce. He then studied Business Psychology at Hochschule Darmstadt, earning both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees, with a focus on market, consumer, and media psychology, as well as environmental psychology.

During his studies, he worked as a student assistant in Marketing and most recently as a research assistant at Fraunhofer ISE, focusing on acceptance research. In addition, he gained practical experience during a research internship, where he focused on product evaluation and the prototype preference effect.