Curriculum Vitae
Research experience
2023 - Today
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
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefanie Höhl
2018 - Today
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
Funding
2023 - 2027
ENVIRO-DEV: A European consortium to determine how complex, real-world environments influence brain development (CA22111). EU COST Action (Secondary proposer)
2023 - 2025
Marie-Skłodowska Curie Actions (MSCA) European Postdoctoral Fellowship for Synchrony in Conversations (SYNCON) Project (Principal Investigator)
2019 - 2022
PhD Scholarship of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (approx. 55,250 €)
Awards
2023
Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award 2023 by the Society for Research on Child Development
2022
Award of Excellence 2022 by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research
2022
ICIS International Graduate Student Travel Award
2022
Travel Grant “Internationale Kommunikation” by the Österreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft
2022
PhD Seed Grant by the Vienna Doctoral School Cognition, Behaviour and Neuroscience
2021
Research support grant provided by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research
2020
Award for Best Talk at Digital Flash Talks by Early Career Researchers of the German Psychological Society (DGPs)
2020
Short-term grant abroad (KWA) of the University of Vienna for a 3-months research stay at the University of Cambridge
2019