- On leave until 05/2020 - |
Curriculum Vitae | Scholarships | Research Interests | Teaching | Methods
Curriculum Vitae
01/2018- 05/2018 | Guest researcher at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (PI: Hanneke den Ouden) |
06/2018-05/2020 | Postdoctoral research fellow funded by the German Research Foundation at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (PI: Hanneke den Ouden) |
0/2017 | Licensed as a psychotherapist for cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in Germany |
01/2017 | Ph.D. in cognitive and clinical neuroscience, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz; Thesis: Incentive-based learning and decision-.making in bipolar-I disorder– Structural and functional underpinnings“ |
Since 10/2016 | Postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Psychology, Department of Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology (Prof. Dr. Michèle Wessa), University of Mainz |
Since 06/2015 | Training in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (developed by Marsha Linehan) |
02/2014 - 07/2017 | Postgradual education as licensed cognitive behavioral therapist at the University of Mainz |
10/2013 - 12/2013 | Research stay at Neurospin, Intense Field Neuroimaging-Centre (CEA), Saclay, France |
10/2013 - 09/2016 | Ph.D student at the Faculty of Psychology, Department of Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology (Prof. Dr. Michèle Wessa), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz |
10/2012 - 09/2013 | Phd Student at the Section of Psychopathology and Neuroimaging (Prof. Michèle Wessa), Centre for General Psychiatry, University of Heidelberg |
10/2012 - 01/2014 | Postgradual education as licensed cognitive behavioural therapist at the Centre of Psychological Psychotherapy (ZPP), University of Heidelberg |
09/ 2011 - 07/2012 | Master Thesis at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich Research group: Czisch, Neuroimaging Topic: “Functional connectivity during rapid eye movement sleep –A combined EEG-fMRI study” (Supervisors: Viktor Spoormaker, PhD (MPI) & Prof. Martin Peper (Marburg)) |
Scholarships
01/2015 - 01/2016 | Mentee in the Mentoring Program “Women in Science” at the University of Mainz: Mentor: Prof. Marianne Müller (Translational Psychiatry, University Hospital, Mainz) |
01/2007 - 07/2012 | Scholarship by the German National Academic Foundation |
Research Interests
- Impulsivity and learning based on punishment and reward in patients with bipolar-I disorder
- Functional and structural neuroimaging
- Neuronal and behavioral correlates of perceived control, immunization, learned helplessness and self efficacy expectancy
- Decision-making and learning from reward and punishment in bipolar-disorder patients and high risk groups
Teaching
WS 16/17 | Dysfunctional neurocognitive processes (MA) |
SS16 | Mechanisms of mental disorders (MA) |
WS 15/16 | Clinical models and psychotherapy research (MA) |
SS14; WS14/15; WS 15/16 | Clinical Psychology II (Eating Disorders; PTSD) (BA) |
Methods
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRT)
- Diffusions-Tensor-Imaging (DTI)
- Neuropsychological Tests