• FePrax – Diagnostic Practice for the Purpose of Determining Special Educational Needs as well as Disparities between German Federal States within the Framework of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
• GoThink – Really True? How Gestures Affect Logical Thinking in Children
• PREDICT – Prediction Generation as a Tool to Activate Children’s Prior Knowledge and Improve Learning

Qualifications and Career

Degree programme

04/2007 - 07/2012

Degree in Psychology (Diploma), Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Doctorate

08/2012 - 04/2016

Prof. Dr. Fiebach, Psychology, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Germany, Doctorate thesis: "Encoding Precision and Variability Constrain Perceptual Visual Memories in Human Occipital and Parietal Cortex" 

Stages of academic/professional career

09/2019 - today

Postdoctoral researcher at DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, Department of Education and Human Development - Development of Successful Learning (Prof. Dr. Hasselhorn) and Individualised Interventions Lab (Prof. Dr. Brod)

08/2018 - 08/2019

Postdoctoral researcher at University of California at Berkeley, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, Department of Psychology, Bunge Lab - Building Blocks of Cognition (Prof. Dr. Bunge)

04/2016 - 07/2018

Postdoctoral researcher at DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, Department of Education and Human Development - Cognitive Development (Prof. Dr. Schmiedek)

since 04/2016 (ongoing)

Clinical Trainee at Kinder- und Jugendlichen-Psychotherapie-Ambulanz (KJ-IPAM), “Kinder- und Jugendpsychotherapeutin in Ausbildung”, Philipps-University Marburg, German

• Founder of Special Interest Group “Developmental and Learning Disorders from a neurobiological perspective” (in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Shing, Prof. Dr. Hasselhorn) since 01/2023
• Teaching and mentoring at Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Germany:
  • Lecturer for Master's seminar: "fMRI Method" (SS 2025)
  • Lecturer for Bachelor's module: "Learning and Memory in Development" (WS 2024-2025)
  • Lecturer for Master's seminar: "Developmental Psychopathology" (SS 2024, SS 2025)
  • Co-lecturer for Master's course: "An Introduction to R Programming" (WS 2016)
• Reviewer for scientific journals since 2019: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, PLOS ONE, Journal of Cognition, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Applied Cognitive Psychology

• Academy Fellowship from Johanna Quandt Young Academy at Goethe, Goethe University Frankfurt, JQYA Fellow 2024 - 2026
• IDeA research center Frankfurt – Start-up funding for research project “Really true? How Gestures affect logical Thinking in children, GoThink” (2022 - 2023)
• SciMento hessenweit – Mentoring for female PhD candidates and postdocs (2014 - 2016)
• GRADE – Goethe Graduate Academy (2012 - 2013)
• efellows – efellows.net – career network (2010 - 2015)
• LLP Erasmus – Education and culture lifelong learning program, University of Bangor, Wales – School of Psychology (2009 - 2010)

An advanced R2 Postdoctoral researcher with a solid background in the fields of Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental, and Educational Psychology. My research focuses on learning and memory processes in children and adults. Current topics of interest include the development of visual memory and attention, generative and gestural learning, and neurodiversity in classrooms with a particular focus on special needs education, inclusion, and diagnostics.