EDUCATION

03/2025 - 07/2025

• Visiting Graduate Researcher| Early Social Development Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, USA, Supervisor: Associate Professor Amrisha Vaish

10/2024 - 02/2025

• Visiting Doctoral Student| Social Foundations Lab, Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, England, Supervisor: Associate Professor Robert Hepach

SINCE 2022

• PhD Student | Research Group Development of Social Behavior, Faculty of Education, Leipzig University, Germany

2019-2021

• M.Sc. Early Childhood Research, Leipzig University, Germany

• Thesis: “How well can we predict young children’s pragmatic cue integration on an individual level?”

Supervisors: Dr. Cornelia Schulze, Prof. Dr. Manuel Bohn

2017-2018

• Year abroad: Courses in Psychology and Philosophy, University of Bristol, UK

2015-2019

• Bachelor in Psychology, Hamburg University, Germany

Thesis: "Short-term effect of caregiver pointing behavior on infant pointing behavior"

Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Ulf Liszkowski, Dr. Mareike Klafka

AWARDS

10/2024 – 07/2025 

• Research fellowship for doctoral students with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

01/2022 – 06/2022 

• Leipzig University’s Pre-Doc Award in cooperation with Dr. Cornelia Schulze

09/2017 – 06/2018 

• Study Abroad Scholarship with the German Academic Scholarship Foundation 

11/2015 - 12/2021

• Scholarship with the German Academic Scholarship Foundation