ACADEMIC CAREER
Research Group Leader (Freigeist Fellow), 01/2016 –
Faculty of Education and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin (DE)
Researcher, 10/2015 – 12/2015
Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (DE)
Marie Curie Research Fellow (own project: XCULTDEVRESALL), 10/2013 – 09/2015
Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (DE)
Postdoctoral Researcher, 01/2012 – 09/2013
Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (DE)
Visiting Researcher, 10/2011 – 12/2011
School of Psychology, Kyoto University (JP)
Visiting Research Fellow, 05/2011 – 09/2011
Department of Psychology, Harvard University (US)
EDUCATION
PhD in Experimental Psychology, 2012
School of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol (GB)
Supervisor: Bruce Hood, Examiners: Chris Jarrold, Melissa Allen
Diploma in Neuroscience, 2007
Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg (DE)
Undergraduate Studies in Biochemistry (Vordiplom) and Philosophy, 2001-2004
Goethe-University Frankfurt (DE), University of Toronto (CA)
RESEARCH GRANTS
Freigeist Fellowship for an Independent Research Group, 2016 – 2020
“Navigating the social world – a cross-cultural and developmental perspective on social norms”, PI, VolkswagenFoundation, 561,500€
Additional Freigeist Module, 2017-2020
“Becoming a normative being – Biological foundations and culture-specific socialization of normativity”, PI (in collaboration with Moritz Köster), VolkswagenFoundation, 325,700€
Additional Freigeist Module for Refugee Researchers, 2017-2020
“Making a new home in Germany – How do newly arrived Arabic refugee youth acculturate to life in Germany?”, PI (in collaboration with Christine Knaevelsrud), VolkswagenFoundation, 176,500€
Marie Curie Intra-European Career Development Grant, 2013 – 2015
“The cross-cultural development of resource allocation behaviour” (XCULTDEVRESALL), PI, European Commission 7th Framework Programme, 162,000€
AWARDS and FELLOWSHIPS
Fellow of Sign Up! – Career building program for excellent female postdocs of the Max Planck Society, 2014 – 2015
Pre-doctoral fellowship of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, 2011
Grindley travel grant of the Experimental Psychology Society, 2011
Doctoral fellowship of Cusanuswerk, 2009 – 2011
Royal Society poster prize, 2nd place, XXXI. International Ethology Conference in Rennes, 2009
Undergraduate stipend of Cusanuswerk, 2003 – 2007
Study abroad stipend of German Academic Exchange Service, 2003 – 2004
FIELD RESEARCH
(9 months total field research experience)
Field research among the Quechua, Tarata, Department Cochabamba, Bolivia: 2015, 2016
Field research among the Wichi, Mision Chaquena, Salta Province, Argentina: 2014, 2015, 2016
Field research among the ≠Akhoe Hai||om, Farm 6, Mangetti West, Namibia: 2014
Field research among the Kikuyu, Nanyuki, Laikipia District, Kenya: 2013