CV
Experience
May 2022 – present
University of Vienna
Research Platform “The Stress of Life (SOLE)” – Processes and Mechanisms underlying Everyday Life Stress Vienna, Austria
Postdoc
Conducting research on affective touch, mindfulness, self-compassion, and everyday stress. Coordinating platform activities
Dec 2018 – Feb 2019
Yale University Center for Emotional Intelligence, New Haven, USA
Postgraduate Fellow
Assisted a large study on college well-being using meditation, emotional intelligence, and yoga interventions
Education
2022
Goethe Universitiy Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main
External doctoral student (Dr. rer. nat.), Psychology
Advisors: Prof. Dr. Rolf van Dick, Dr. Nina M. Junker
Thesis: Do unto yourself as you would do unto others: Theoretical advances, interventions, and applications of self-compassion
(summa cum laude)
2016
Mannheim University, Mannheim
M. Sc., Management (major), Psychology (minor)
Thesis: Effects of status loss on helping and aggression
2013
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Non-degree, Advanced Studies Program in International Economic Policy Research
(Lecturers from Harvard, Princeton & Oxford)
2012
Private University of Applied Sciences (PFH), Goettingen
B. Sc., Management (second of the class)