CV

Positions

• Spring/Summer 2024: Visiting professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, Institute of Cognitive Science

• Since 2020: W3-Professor for Applied Cognitive Psychology at the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen and the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Science, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.

• 10/2017 to 12/2019: Head of department research infrastructures, German Institute for Adult Education.

• 2010 to 2017: Junior Professorship for Cognitive Psychology at the Psychology Department at the University of Tübingen.

• 2009: Research assistant at the Psychology Department at the University of Tübingen.

• Fall/Winter 2008: Visiting scholar at the Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA.

• 2004 to 2010: Research assistant at the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen, Germany.

• 2004 to 2007: Freelancer IT consulting and programming.

• 1998-2003: Studies of psychology, mathematics, and computer science at the University of Tübingen.

Editorial duties

• Since 2021: Editorial board member of Scientific Reports.

Service

• Since 2021: Member of the Advisory Board of the Leibniz-Leadership Academy

• Since 04/2021: Deputy Speaker of the Department of Psychology of the University of Tübingen.

• 01/2019 to 12/2019: Chairman of the local ethics committee (institutional review board) at the German Institute for Adult Education.

• 2018: Establishment and interim chairman of the local ethics committee (institutional review board) at the German Institute for Adult Education.

• Spring 2015: Deputy Speaker of the Department of Psychology of the University of Tübingen.

• 2013 to 2017: Spokesperson of the Media Psychology division of the German Psychological Society (DGPs).

• Spring 2012: Deputy Speaker of the Department of Psychology of the University of Tübingen.

• 2011 to 2017: Member of the library commission of the Faculty of Science at the University of Tübingen.

Awards and Scholarships

• 2018: Top Paper Award of the Information Systems Division of the International Communication Association (ICA).

• 2007: Leibniz award for young scientists of the Leibniz Association.

• 2007-2010: Scholarship holder within the "Eliteprogramm für Postdoktoranden" (postdoctoral fellowship) of the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung.

Degrees

• 2014: Habilitation, Venia legendi in Psychology, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.

• 2007: Granting of a Doctorate in natural sciences (Dr. rer. nat., "summa cum laude"), Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.

• 2003: Granting of a diploma in psychology (Dipl.-Psych.), Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.

• 2001: Granting of a Vordiplom (pre-diploma) in computer science, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.