What I like: Experimental studies on mammalian behaviour, green tea, instruments with 6+ strings, PC games, mountainbiking, the woods, Lego, death metal.

What I can't stand: The TV, the iPhone, sloppy layout.

See below for a brief biographical sketch.

Academic awards: APS Rising Star (2021), Paul Bertelson Award (European Society for Cognitive Psychology, ESCoP, 2020), Early Career Award (Psychonomic Society, 2020), Teaching Award "Golden Fipsi" (2017-2019), Heinz-Heckhausen Young Scientist Prize (German Psychological Society, DGPs, 2016).

Employment history

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Since 04/2023

Heisenberg-Professor at the Department of Psychology, Trier University, Germany.

12/2022-03/2023

Erskine-Fellow at the School of Psychology, Speech, and Hearing, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

05/2014-03/2023

Habilitand (equiv. Assistant Professor) at the Faculty of Human Sciences at Julius-Maximilians University of Würzburg, Germany.

Career breaks (parental leave): 04/2015-06/2015, 09/2015-11/2015 (1st child), 10/2017-04/2018 (2nd child), 12/2019-07/2020 (3rd child).

10/2010-04/2014

PhD student and post-doc at the cognitive psychology unit at Julius-Maximilians University of Würzburg, Germany

08-09/2008

Internship at Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Leipzig, Germany

07/2005-04/2006

Civillian service at the residential home for elderly Gerbrunn, Germany

Education

2010-2013

PhD, Julius-Maximilians University of Würzburg, Germany

Thesis: "Breaking the rules: Cognitive conflict during deliberate rule violations" (see Publications page).

2006-2010

Diploma studies at Julius-Maximilians University of Würzburg and Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Germany

Diploma thesis: "Pinpointing ideomotor effect anticipations in the human brain" (see Publications page). Major subjects: Cognitive Psychology and Behavioural Control, Neuropsychology. Minor Subjects: Neuroanatomy.

2008-2009 [September-February]

Research internship at the University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom

BSc thesis: "Expert's eye: Presenting eye-movement patterns to train visual search in complex geophysical displays" (see Publications page).

1995-2005

Friedrich-Koenig Gymnasium Würzburg, Germany (College)

Abitur (A-levels) in Mathematics, Physics, English, and Religion/Philosophy.