Since 5/2022

Junior professor for Mobile Assessment and Telepsychotherapy at the Department for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Hospital Tübingen

• Conducting research projects focusing on prevention, treatment and rehabilitation using digital technologies in children, adolescents and parents with mental disorders

04/2020-04/2022

Head of National Center for Early Prevention at German Youth Institute

• Team lead, monitoring of seven projects within the National Centre for Early Prevention (NZFH) in cooperation with the Bundeszentrale für Gesundheitliche Aufklärung, funded by the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ) as part of the Federal Initiative on Early Prevention
• Quantitative and qualitative research on preventive support for families with children aged 0-3

05/2019 

License for psychotherapy (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)

01/2018-03/2020

Post-doctoral research fellow, department of clinical psychology and child and adolescent psychiatry LMU, Munich

• ECoWeB Project (Assessing and Enhancing Emotional Competence for Well-Being in the Young: A principled, evidence-based, mobile-health approach to prevent mental disorders and promote mental well-being): development of a mobile Application for prevention of psychiatric disorders 
• Team coordination Site Munich: Communication and coordination in international and multidisciplinary team of psychologists and technicians
• Trial management (PR, recruitment, data protection, conducting the study)
• Member e-mental health interest group of the Fachgruppe Klinische Psychologie (DGPs)
• General research activities (data analysis, writing papers, peer reviews, talks on international conferences, organizing symposium on mental health issues for children of parents with depression)

07/2018

Phd „Transmission and Prevention of Depression in the Offspring of Parents with Depression - Differences and changes in psychopathology, emotion regulation and attributional style” 

• Running a randomised controlled trial of a CBT family-based prevention program for youth of depressed parents and a meta-analysis on prevention of depression
• Lecturer for psychology master students (CBT, neurology and psychopharmacology, Hochschule für Gesundheit und Sport, Technik und Kunst)
• Co-founded and conducted a psycho-education group for refugees

2019-2012

License Clinical Psychotherapist (AVM, Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Verhaltensmodifikation)

• Conducting psychotherapy (CBT) with psychological ill patients (100% completed, Approbation: 04/2019)
• Trainee Clinical Psychotherapy at TU Clinic for Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Munich (Germany)
• Conducted diagnostic psychiatric interviews with all kinds of patients, diagnostical classification, Planning of psychotherapy treatment strategies; presenting patient cases in clinic conferences & writing reports of cases
• Trainee Clinical Psychotherapy at LMU Clinic for Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Munich  (Germany)

2006-2012

Diploma in Psychology, Philipps-University Marburg (Germany)

• Study focus: clinical psychology (adults, children and adolescents), educational psychology, peace and conflict studies, grade: 1,5 
• Thesis: Mathematic competence and success regarding gender differences (grade: 1,1)

2009-2010

Exchange student at the Universidad de Monterrey (Mexico)

• Study subjects: psychology, history and philosophy
• Language acquisition, Intercultural competence

2008-2009

Training for mediation, Bundesverband Mediaton   (Philipps-University Marburg (Germany)

• Theoretical and practical experience in the mediation process

1996-2005

Abitur –Eichendorff-Gymnasium, Bamberg