Horst Complex

dr. F. Schuberth (Florian)

Associate Professor
ET-DPM-PMR
Horst Complex W246
f.schuberth@utwente.nl
+31534897846
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Florian Schuberth is an Associate Professor at the Chair of Product–Market Relations. His research focuses on exploiting the untapped potential of composites in the context of structural equation modeling. In addition to his research activities,  Florian Schuberth is a passionate and enthusiastic teacher. He currently coordinates and teaches several courses on quantitative research methods.

Florian Schuberth received his Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and Economics and his Master's degree in Economics from the University of Würzburg, Germany. In 2017, he completed his PhD at the Chair of Econometrics (Prof. Dr. Kukuk) of the same university with "summa cum laude". 

Making his research openly available is an important issue for Florian Schuberth. Therefore, he has developed the R package cSEM, which allows researchers to perform PLS in R. For more information, see his GitHub profile and the Open Science Framework. In 2022 Florian Schuberth decided to take a more active role in the Open Science movement and became coordinator of the Open Science Community Twente. 

Expertise

  • Psychology

    • Research
    • Assessment
    • Measurement

  • Computer Science

    • Structural Equation
    • Least Squares Methods
    • Models
    • Information Systems

  • Social Sciences

    • Analysis

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Florian Schuberth's research focuses on structural equation modeling (SEM) and particularly on exploiting the untapped potential of composites in this context. Florian Schuberth's developments include Confirmatory Composite Analysis and the Henseler-Ogasawara specification to flexibly model composites in SEM. Moreover, Florian Schuberth has improved various methods. For example, he enhanced the HTMT used for discriminant validity assessment, known as HTMT2 and he modified partial least squares path modeling (PLS-PM), a widely used estimator for structural equation models, to deal with ordinal variables. Further, Florian Schuberth critically discusses statistical methods. As a result, he has co-authored several commentaries.

Publications

2026

Moderated Mediation with Composites: The Composite Moderated Structural Equations Approach (2026)Behavior research methods, 58. Article 104 (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Schamberger, T., Schuberth, F. & Henseler, J.https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-025-02930-wAutomated specification search for composite-based structural equation modeling: A genetic approach (2026)Computational statistics & data analysis, 219. Article 108348 (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Trinchera, L., Pietropolli, G., Castelli, M. & Schuberth, F.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csda.2026.108348AGAS-PLS: A Genetic Algorithm for automated structural model specification in composite-based SEM (2026)[Contribution to conference › Abstract] Annual International Meeting of the Psychometric Society 2026 (In preparation). Trinchera, L., Pietropolli, G., Catelli, M. & Schuberth, F.Factor- and composite-based structural equation modeling - A new approach to incorporate composites in the traditional SEM framework (2026)[Contribution to conference › Abstract] Annual International Meeting of the Psychometric Society 2026 (In preparation). Schamberger, T. S., Schuberth, F., Rosseel, Y. & Henseler, J.Post-occupancy evaluation for learning environments (POELE): A formative assessment tool (2026)[Contribution to conference › Abstract] 4th International Conference of “Scuola Democratica” (Accepted/In press). Dumont Laux, M., Schuberth, F., Schuster, K. & Beege, M.Robust recursive SEM with IGSCA Trees (2026)[Contribution to conference › Abstract] (In preparation). Truong, M. & Schuberth, F.Second-order structural equation modeling with both factors and components (2026)[Contribution to conference › Abstract] Annual International Meeting of the Psychometric Society 2026 (In preparation). Baek, I.-H., Cho, G., Schuberth, F. & Hwang, H.Specifying composites in structural equation modeling: Traditional, recent and new approaches (2026)[Contribution to conference › Abstract] Annual International Meeting of the Psychometric Society 2026 (In preparation). Schuberth, F., Henseler, J., Yu, X., Schamberger, T. S. & Hancock, G. R.Teaching an old dog new tricks: Item parceling in a single, integrative step (2026)[Contribution to conference › Abstract] Annual International Meeting of the Psychometric Society 2026 (In preparation). Schuberth, F., Yu, X., Little, T. D. & Henseler, J.

2025

A flexible way to study composites in ecology using structural equation modeling (2025)Scientific reports, 15. Article 4597. Yu, X., Schuberth, F. & Henseler, J.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-88675-0

Research profiles

Florian Schuberth teaches mainly courses about quantitative research methods.

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Courses academic year 2025/2026

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Courses academic year 2024/2025

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University of Twente

Horst Complex (building no. 20), room W246
De Horst 2
7522 LW Enschede
Netherlands

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