

Prof. of Clinical Psychology and Violence Research
| 10/2023 | Deputy Scientific Director, Institute for Interdisciplinary Conflict and Violence Research, Bielefeld, University, Germany |
| 10/2023 | Professor (full) of Clinical Psychology & Violence Research, Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University, Germany |
| 01/2021 | Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology & Violence Research (former: Clincal Developmental Psychopathology), Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University, Germany |
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08/2020 |
Emmy-Noether Junior Research Group Leader, Institute for Interdisciplinary Conflict and Violence Research & Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University, Germany |
| 11/2016 – 07/2020 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University, Germany |
| 01/2015 – 12/2016 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow and subdivision leader “Consequences of trauma and violence” at the Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2013 | Dr. rer. nat. (PhD), University of Konstanz, Germany, Degree: summa cum laude |
| 04/2011 – 12/2014 | Scientific associate at the Department of Psychology and at the Center of Excellence for Psychotraumatology, University of Konstanz, Germany |
| 2011 | Diploma (MSc) in Psychology at the Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany |
| 2020 | Licensed to practice psychotherapy with children and adolescents |
| 2019 | Licensed to practice psychotherapy with adults |
| 2023 | Offered Full Professorship (W3) for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology at the Otto-Friedrich-University of Bamberg, Germany (declined) |
| 2022 | Offered Full Professorship (W3) for Clincal Psychology & Psychotherapy at the University Mannheim, Germany (declined) |
| 2021 – 2023 |
Membership in the Junges Kolleg of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Science and the Arts |
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2020 |
Admission to the Emmy Noether Program of the German Research Foundation (DFG) |
| 2019/2020 | Postdoctoral Fellow of the Daimler and Benz Foundation |
| 2019 | Offered Junior Professorship (Assistant Professorship) for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology at the University of Witten-Herdecke, Germany (rejected) |
| 2019 | Ranked third in the appointment procedure for the Junior Professorship (Assistant Professorship) with tenure track in Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and Psychotherapy at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany |
| 2018 | Nomination for the academics-Nachwuchspreis 2018: Young Scientist of the Year (Top-10 position) |
| 2017 | DeGPT Advancement Award of the Falk-von-Reichenbach Foundation and the German-Speaking Society of Psychotraumatology |
| 2014 | Poster award at the DGPPN, Berlin for the study: Child maltreatment, mental health, and modifications in the DNA methylation in the HPA axis: a study with children in Tanzania |