Curriculum Vitae | Teaching Experience | Awards and Grants | International Experience | Adhoc Peer Reviewing
Curriculum Vitae
Academic Background
| 27.04.2012 | Ph.D. in cognitive and clinical neuroscience, Medical Faculty Mannheim at Heidelberg University (summa cum laude) |
| 04/2008 – 04/2012 | Member of the graduate program ‘Translational Neuroscience“ at the Collaborative Research Center 636 “Learning, memory and brain plasticity: Implications for psychopathology” |
| 17.08.2007 | Diploma in psychology, Dresden University of Technology (“mit Auszeichnung bestanden”) |
| 10/2001 – 09/2003 | Training in psychology at Dresden University of Technology |
Current and Past Positions
| Since 04/2013 | Research associate, Department of Neuropsychology and Clinical Psy-chology, Psychological Institute, Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz, Germany |
| 01/2012 – 03/2013 | Research associate, Section for Experimental Psychopathology and Neuroimaging, Department of General Psychiatry, Center of Psychoso-cial Medicine, Heidelberg University, Germany |
| 01/2008 – 12/2011 | Research associate, Institute of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany |
Clinical Training and Experience
| Since 01/2015 | Therapist at the outpatient clinic of the Psychological Institute, Johannes-Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany |
| 30.09.2013 | Licensed as a psychotherapist in Germany |
| 01/2012 – 03/2013 | Management of the outpatient clinic for bipolar disorder, Center of Psychosocial Medicine, Heidelberg University, Germany |
| 05/2009 – 04/2013 | Clinical training at the Centre for Psychological Psychotherapy (ZPP) at the Heidelberg University (including the requirement of a minimum of 600 therapy sessions under close supervision and a minimum of 20 documented cases) |
Career Pause
| 06/2013 – 08/2014 | Maternal leave |
Teaching Experience
| Spring 2015 | Clinical Models and modern research on psychotherapy (graduate seminar, 18 students) |
| Fall 2014 – Spring 2015 | Project bachelor thesis (undergraduate seminar, 6 students) |
| Fall 2013 - Fall 2014 | Mechanisms underlying psychiatric diseases (graduate seminar, 25 students) |
| Spring 2012 – Fall 2012 | Diagnostics in psychiatry (graduate seminar, 20 students) |
| Spring 2012 – Fall 2012 | Doctoral candidates’ colloquium (graduate seminar, 7 students) |
Awards and Grants
| 11/2014 | “Differentiating bipolar I disorder, bipolar II disorder and unipolar depression based on neurobiological alterations of Gray’s behavioral activation and inhibition system (BAS/BIS)” (German Research Foun-dation, 02/2015 – 02/2018, role: PI, 251.787 Euro, 36 months) |
| 10/2014 | “The route to insight – discovering neurobiological mechanisms of change in psychotherapy” (grant from the Johannes-Gutenberg Univer-sity of Mainz, 11/2014 – 11/2015, role: PI, 25.390 Euro, 12 months) |
| 03/2014 – 03/2015 | Member of the Christine de Pizan Mentoring Program of the Johannes-Gutenberg University of Mainz |
| 05/2010 | Poster Award of the 28th symposium of clinical psychology section of the German Society for Psychology |
| 06/2009 | Travel Award for the Congress on Human Brain Mapping (HBM) |
| 05/2008 | Werner-Straub-Award for an outstanding diploma thesis, Dresden Uni-versity of Technology |
International Experience
| 03/2007 – 12/2007 | Coordinator of the project „Raising ecological awareness among school children“ in Mangalore, India |
| 10/2005 – 03/2006 | Research internship, University Toulouse II (Le Mirail), France |
Adhoc Peer Reviewing
- Bipolar Disorders
- Cerebral Cortex
- Cortex
- European Neuropsychopharmacology