Curriculum Vitae
Research experience
2024 - Today
Research Associate
Psychological Institute at Heidelberg University
Developmental Psychology and Biopsychology
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Sabina Pauen
2026 - Today
Guest Researcher
Italian Institute of Technology – Center for Life Nano & Neuro-Science, Rome, Italy
Neuroscience of Perception and Action Lab
Advisor: Dr. Giacomo Novembre
2022 - Today
Senior Research Fellow
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Research Group on Developmental Psychology
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Stefanie Höhl
2023 - 2026
Researcher
Italian Institute of Technology – Center for Life Nano & Neuro-Science, Rome, Italy
Neuroscience of Perception and Action Lab
Advisor: Dr. Giacomo Novembre
2018 - 2024
Guest researcher
Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
Independent Research Group on Social Stress & Family Health
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Veronika Engert
2022 - 2023
Post Doc
Italian Institute of Technology – Center for Life Nano & Neuro-Science, Rome, Italy
Neuroscience of Perception and Action Lab
Advisor: Dr. Giacomo Novembre
2020
Visiting Doctoral Student
Cambridge Babylab at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Projects: Brain Imaging for Global HealTh (BRIGHT) Project
Supervisor: Dr. Sarah Lloyd-Fox
2018 - 2022
University Assistant (Predoc)
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Research Group on Developmental Psychology
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefanie Höhl
Education
2018 - 2022
University of Vienna | Dr. rer. nat in Developmental Psychology
2015 - 2018
Heielberg University | Master of Science in Psychology
2012 - 2015
Heidelberg University | Bachelor of Science in Psychology
Selected Grants
2025
Exzellenzinitiative of Heidelberg University: ECR Get started Grant (Principal Investigator)
2023 - 2027
ENVIRO-DEV: A European consortium to determine how complex, real-world environments influence brain development (CA22111). EU COST Action (Secondary proposer)
2023 - 2026