Short Bio:

I am a cognitive and developmental psychologist currently working at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences. I received my Ph.D. from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of the University of Zürich in 2006. After that I gathered four years of post-doctoral experience in the United States, first in Margaret Wilson’s lab at the University of California, Santa Cruz, then at Temple University in Phila­delphia, in the context of a NSF-funded project on spatial cognition led by Nora Newcombe.  From 2011 to 2014, I worked as an SNSF Ambizione Fellow at the University of Bern, where I obtained the Venia Docendi (Habilitation) in 2013. From 2014 to 2021, I held SNSF-Professorship at the University of Fribourg. In the academic year of 2017/18, I also held an interim Professorship in Developmental Psychology at the University of Konstanz. From 2022 to 2024 I worked at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW).

Research Interests:

• spatial cognition

• e-assessment

• media psychology and digitalisation

• embodied cognition

• multitasking