Education and Professional Experience

Since April 2013: Assistant professor (Juniorprofessorin) at the Department of Psychology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

January 2012 - December 2012: Research scientist at the Department of Psychology (PI: Ricarda Schubotz, Karen Zentgraf), University of Muenster, Germany

August 2009 - December 2011: Postdoc at MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research (PI: Nancy Kanwisher), Cambridge, MA USA

July 2008 - July 2009: Postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research (MPIH), Department of Neurophysiology (PI: Axel Kohler, Wolf Singer), Frankfurt, Germany

December 2008: PhD in cognitive neuroscience/psychology, University of Maastricht, Department of Psychology (PI: Rainer Goebel), The Netherlands

April 2005 - July 2008: PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research (MPIH), Department of Neurophysiology (PI: Axel Kohler, Lars Muckli, Wolf Singer), Frankfurt, Germany

January 2005 - March 2005: Research assistant at the University of Louisiana, Cognitive Evolution Group (PI: Daniel Povinelli), Lafayette, LA, USA

October 2004: MA in philosophy, University of Duesseldorf, Department of Philosophy, Germany

March 2004: MSc in psychology, University of Duesseldorf, Department of Psychology, Germany



Grants and Awards


2012 Fellowship of the Daimler und Benz Foundation (Postdoktorandenstipendium)

2011 Fellow of the Robert Bosch Foundation ("Fast Track program")


2010 Postdoctoral Fellow of the Simon's Initiative on Autism and the Brain at MIT

2009
Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society

2008 "Cum laude" (highest distinction) from the University of Maastricht

2003 Research fellowship of the Hedwig und Waldemar Hort Stiftung

2001-2004 Excellence student scholarship of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung


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