Research Scientist
| 2002 | Diploma in Psychology Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich Thesis: “Sequence Learning with Coordinated Actions” |
| 2002–2005 | Participating at the Graduate Program at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (DFG-Grant; Kn 489/6). Supervision: Prof. Wolfgang Prinz and Prof. Dr. Günther Knoblich |
| 2004 | PhD in Psychology Ludwig Maximilian University Munich “Investigating the Influence of Set Effects and Heuristics on the Solution of Insight Problems” |
| 2005–2006 | Research Scientist at the MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Munich |
| Since 2005 | Lecturer at the University of Munich, Department of General and Experimental Psychology. (Chair: Prof. Hermann Müller). |
| Since 2006 | Research Scientist at the Parmenides Center for the Study of Thinking, Munich. |
I am interested in the understanding of human thinking from a psychological view. My main fields of interest are insight problem solving, the understanding of causal reasoning and categorization. Furthermore, I am interested in the development of cognitive theories that conceptually incorporate behavioural and neurocognitive findings.
Methodologically, we conduct behavioural and physiological experiments to get new insights in the fascinating world of humans’ thinking. Furthermore we are interested in developmental aspects of those thinking abilities from a longitudinal as well as from a cross sectional perspective.
