Studies of psychology and, in addition, mathematics, linguistics, and educational sciences at the Universities of Freiburg i.Br. and Bochum

1990 Doctor’s degree at the University of Bielefeld (with excellence; dissertation(13.8 MB) on a comparative analysis of implicit and explicit learning processes in children and adults as well as in children with specific language impairment)

1998 Habilitation (post doctoral lecture qualification) for psychology at the University of Bielefeld (thesis: language and thought – a psychological analysis of interrelations from a developmental perspective)

1998 - 1999 Deputy Chair of Psychology at the University of Bielefeld

1999 - 2000 Professor for Developmental Psychology at the University of Münster (C2)

2000 - 2001 Professor for Developmental and Educational Psychology at the University of Erfurt (C3)

since 2002 Professor and Chair of Psychology I – Developmental Psychology at the University of Bamberg