Work

Since 05/2011

Research Assistant

General Psychology Lab of Prof. Dr. Thomas Goschke, Institute for General Psychology, Biopsychology, and Methods of Psychology, Technical University, Dresden

11/2010 - 05/2011

Parental time

Education

03/2006 - 10/2010

PhD Student/ Researcher

General Psychology Lab of Prof. Dr. Thomas Goschke, Institute for General Psychology, Biopsychology, and Methods of Psychology, Technical University, Dresden

Dissertation : Making Decisions under conflict with a continuous mind: from micro to macro timescales

Dispuation: 10/2010, Dr. rer. nat., Predicate: Summa cum laude

10/2002 - 02/2006

University Osnabrück

Master Program Cognitive Science, Minor Psychology
Degree: MSc. Cognitive Science

Masters Thesis : Neural Synchronization in the Crossmodal Integration of Camouflage Pictures and Sounds

(an EEG-Study, supervised by Prof. Dr. Peter König and Prof. Dr. Andreas Engel)

10/1998 - 07/2002

Fachhochschule Furtwangen

Computer Science in Media
Degree: Dipl. Inf.

1988 - 1997

Dientzenhofer Gymnasium, Bamberg

Degree: Abitur

Prices

04/2011

Dissertationspreis der Fachgruppe Allgemeine Psychologie (FGAP) der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie.
1. Platz

2010

Auszeichnung des Fachschaftsrates Psychologie für das best-evaluierte Seminar "Dynamische Muster menschlichen Verhaltens" (Dynamic Patterns of Human Behavior)

Grants & Funding Programs

2007

Grant for a pilot project on Irrationality, Metastability, and Dynamic Systems in Decision Making" within the "European Platform for Life Sciences, Mind Sciences, and the Humanities" of the Volkswagen Foundation.

since 10/2006

Member of the "European Platform for Life Sciences, Mind Sciences, and the Humanities" of the Volkswagen Foundation.

11/2000 - 08/2005

Member of the Siemens Student Program TOPAZ

Studies abroad

04/2004 - 08/2004

Research Internship at the Social Cognition Lab of Dr. Halberstadt, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

(Performing an Experiment about Reasons Analysis and the Affective Modulation of Cognition)

Teaching

2007

Dynamische Strukturen: Die Selbstorganisation von Gehirn und Verhalten
(Dynamic Patterns: The Selforganization of Brain and Behaviour)
An introduction to dynamical systems theory for psychologists.
In Collaboration with Maja Dshemuchadse

2007 + 2008

Brain Reading: moderne Methoden der Neurowissenschaften
An introduction to empirical brain research for computer scientists
In Collaboration with Antje Petzold

2008/2009

Emotion & Motivation
An introduction to theories and research about emotion and motivation for future teachers.
In Collaboration with Maja Dshemuchadse

2009

Psychologie der Emotionen
An introduction to theories and research about emotion for future teachers.
In Collaboration with Maja Dshemuchadse

2009/2010

Dynamische Muster menschlichen Verhaltens
(Dynamic Patterns of Human Behavior)
An introduction to dynamic concepts and their application in empirical research.

2010/2011

Psychologie der Emotionen
An introduction to theories and current research about emotion for future teachers.

2011

Experimentalpsychologisches Praktikum
Introduction to empirical psychological practice.

Improvisation Theatre

Please see also my website about Improvisationstheater (german, new window)

2001

Regular Courses for Improvisational Theatre
for the ASTA of Furtwangen University

since 2006

Regular Courses & Workshops for Improvisational Theatre
for die bühne, Dresden
Next Workshop

since 2007

Member of Freie Spielkultur, the improvisational theatre group at die bühne, Dresden
Next Shows

Exemplary recent Workshops

Workshop "Die Rolle die Du spielst - Dein Leben als Improvisationtheater"
Self-awarenes workshop for Studentenwerk Dresden

Workshop "Einführung ins Improvisationstheater"
Workshop for Sonnenstrahl e.V., Dresden

Improtheater: Gromolo & From one-word sentences to stories
Workshops within the training Kreisauer Modell for Kreisau Initiative , Berlin, in Kreisau, Poland.