Academic education
| 10/2009–08/2012 | Bachelor of Science in Psychology at the University of Wuerzburg |
| 10/2012–11/2014 | Master of Science in Psychology at the University of Wuerzburg |
| 10/2014–03/2019 | Bachelor of Arts in History (major) and Political and Social Studies (minor) at the University of Wuerzburg |
| 08/2019 | PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in Psychology at the University of Wuerzburg Dissertation: Learning words from stories: How method of story delivery and questioning styles influence children’s vocabulary learning (Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Lenhard, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schneider) |
| 01/2024 | Positive interim evaluation as assistant professor at the University of Bamberg |
Academic positions
| 10/2010–01/2014 | Student research assistant at the University of Wuerzburg |
| 01/2014–03/2016 | Research fellow at the Counseling Center for the Gifted and Talented ("Begabungspychologische Beratungsstelle") at the University of Wuerzburg (Prof. Schneider) |
| 02/2015–03/2021 | PhD student at the Department of Psychology IV at the University of Wuerzburg (Prof. Schneider; since 10/2016 Prof. Richter) |
| 04/2019–03/2021 | Freelancer at the Counseling Center for the Gifted and Talented ("Begabungspsychologischen Beratungsstelle") at the University of Wuerzburg (Prof. Richter) |
| since 04/2021 | Assistant professor for Educational Psychology at the University of Bamberg (W1 with tenure track W2) |
Qualifications
| 10/2013 | Certificate in experience-oriented team pedagogy |
| 11/2019 | Certificate in teaching in higher education awarded by the Bavarian universities (Basic level) |
| 10/2020 | Certificate in teaching in higher education awarded by the Bavarian universities (Advanced level) |
| 06/2022 | Certificate in counseling and education of gifted children (KLIKK certificate) |
Scholarships and awards
| 12/2009–09/2014 | Scholarship awarded by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) |
| 09/2020 | Dissertation award of the University of Wuerzburg and the Foundation for Science of Lower Franconia |
| 09/2021 | Dissertation award of the Section for Educational Psychology of the German Psychological Association (DGPs) |
| Winter term 2021/2022 | Award for excellent teaching (category: research-based teaching) of the Department of Psychology and the student council of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Bamberg |
Memberships
- German Psychological Association (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie; DGPs): Section Educational Psychology, Section Developmental Psychology
- European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI): SIG 5 Learning and Development in Early Childhood
- International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature (IGEL): Member of the research coalition Narrative Fiction and Social Cognition
- Society for Empirical Educational Research (Gesellschaft für Empirische Bildungsforschung; GEBF)
Reviewer for
- BMC Pediatrics
- British Journal of Developmental Psychology
- Cogent Education
- Current Psychology
- Discourse Processes
- Early Education and Development
- European Journal of Psychology of Education
- Frontiers in Psychology (section Developmental Psychology)
- International Journal of Educational Research Open
- Journal of Children and Media
- Journal of Early Childhood Education Research
- Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
- Journal of Research in Childhood Education
- Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
- Language, Culture and Curriculum
- Learning and Individual Differences
- Learning and Instruction
- Lernen und Lernstörungen
- PLOS ONE
- Psychologie in Erziehung und Unterricht
- Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
- Zeitschrift für Entwicklungspsychologie und Pädagogische Psychologie