Comparative Differential
and Personality Psychology
Curriculum vitae
Professional experiences
| since 2010 | Research group leader, Comparative Differential and Personality Psychology, Department of Educational Science and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin |
| 2009-2010 | Research associate (PostDoc), Department of Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin |
| 2006-2007 | Research associate and lecturer, Institute for Psychology, Humboldt University Berlin |
| 2003-2005 | Research assistant, Max
Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of
Developmental and Comparative Psychology and Wolfgang Köhler
Primate Research Center, Leipzig, Germany
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| 2009 | Dr. phil., Psychology, Freie
Universität Berlin, Germany Completed with Summa cum laude (highest distinction) |
| 2005 | Diplom,
Psychology, Humboldt
University Berlin, Germany Thesis: "Personality in the Great Apes - Methods and Approaches". Humboldt University Berlin & Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany |
Grants and Scholarships
| Research grant (2010-2013; UH249/1-1), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG |
| Postdoctoral research grant (2009-2010), Freie Universität Berlin, Germany |
| PhD support grant (2007-2008), Humboldt University Berlin, Germany |
| Travel grants: European Association of Personality Psychology EAPP (2010) Humboldt University Berlin, Germany (2008) European Association of Personality Psychology EAPP (2008) Humboldt University Berlin, Germany (2007) |
Awards and Prizes
| First Prize for outstanding oral presentations in the IPS student competition (for the talk on "Primate personality: Theory, approaches and assessment methods") at the XXII Congress of the International Primatological Society (IPS) 2008 in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Award for the Best Diploma Thesis on Personality of the Differential Psychology, Personality Psychology and Psychological Diagnostics Section of the German Psychological Association (DGPs) in 2005-2006; Vienna, Austria, 2007 |
| Award for the Best Diploma (M.A.) Thesis of the year 2006 at the Psychological Institute, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany; 2007 |
American Psychological Association (APA)
Association for Psychological Science (APS)
European Association for Personality Psychology (EAPP)
German Psychological Society (DGPs)
Section Differential and Personality Psychology,
Psychological Diagnostics
Section Methods and Evaluation
Section Social Psychology
Section Developmental Psychology
International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID)
Society for Ambulatory Assessment (SAA)
Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)
Animal Behavior Society (ABS)
2008-2010
International Primatological Society (IPS)
Primate Society of Great Britain (PSGB)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Primatologie e.V. (GfP)
Ad-hoc Reviewer
Animal Behaviour
American Journal of Primatology
Biology Letters
Diagnostica
European Journal of Personality
Journal of Comparative Psychology
Naturwissenschaften - The Science of Nature
OIKOS - Synthesising Ecology
Personality and Individual Differences
Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences
Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung
The Leakey Foundation
Christian-Vogel-Fund
Further qualification
Education as a trainer for communication and behaviour at artop e.V., Co-Institute at the Humboldt University Berlin, Germany (2002-2003)