Vita

Education

2015 PhD (Dr. rer. nat., grade: summa cum laude)
Department of Cognitive and Engineering Psychology
Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany Thesis
2009 Diploma in Psychology (grade: 1.2)
Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany Thesis

Professional Experience

since 01/2023 Professor for Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive Psychology, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
since 09/2020 Scientific Associate
Cognitive Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
03/2016 – 08/2020 Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Cognitive Decision Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
09/2013 – 02/2016 Research Scientist
Cognitive and Engineering Psychology, TU Chemnitz, Germany
03/2013 – 08/2013 Visiting Researcher
Economic Psychology, University of Basel, Switzerland
09/2009 – 02/2013 Research Scientist
Cognitive and Engineering Psychology, TU Chemnitz, Germany
10/2006 – 08/2009 Research Assistant
Cognitive and Engineering Psychology, TU Chemnitz, Germany
05/2007 –08/2007 Research Assistant
Transportation and Logistics, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden

Grants and Awards

2022 Flexibility Grant (30.000 CHF)
1-year grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
2019 Ambizione Grant (911.146 CHF)
career funding granted by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) for a four-year research project at the Cognition Lab, University of Zurich, Switzerland
2016 University prize Technische Universität Chemnitz (1.000 EUR)
Chemnitz, Germany
2014 Student Poster award of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making (250 USD)
Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA
2013 Research grant (8.600 EUR)
granted by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for a sixth month research visit at the Centre for Economic Psychology, Basel, Switzerland
2012 Travel grant (2.000 EUR)
granted by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for presenting research at the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Sapporo, Japan

Ad Hoc Reviews

Journals
  • Advances in Cognitive Psychology
  • Behavioral Decision Making
  • Behavior Research Methods
  • Cognition
  • Decision
  • German Journal of Artificial Intelligence
  • International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
  • Journal of Behavioral Decision Making
  • Journal of Business Research
  • Journal of Vision
  • Memory & Cognition
  • Nature Human Behaviour
  • PLOS ONE
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B
  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • The Educational and Developmental Psychologist
  • Virtual Reality
  • Vision Research
  • Visual Cognition
National Science Foundations and Scientific Societies
  • Cognitive Science Society
  • National Science Center Poland
  • Society for Judgment and Decision Making
  • Swiss National Science Foundation

Memberships

  • Cognitive Science Society (CSS)
  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs)
  • European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP)
  • Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES)
  • Psychonomic Society (PS)
  • Society for Judgment and Decision Making (SJDM)

Extracurricular Activities

since 2016 Selection committee poster award at the “Annual Conference of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making”
Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Boston, MA, USA
Selection committee poster award at “MaDoCo”
Institute of Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
2018 – 2022 Representative of Junior and Mid-Level Faculty of the Psychology Department (Mittelbauvertreterin)
Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Peer mentoring project “methods and statistics” and “R”
Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
2016 – 2022 Person of trust for PhD students and Postdocs
Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
2011 Selection committee “Deutschlandstipendium”
Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany
2007 – 2009 Student member examination board
Intstitute of Psychology, Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany