Vita
Born 1980 in Bonn, Germany
Degrees
- 2007 Diploma (MA) in Psychology, University of Bonn (advisors: Rüdiger. F. Pohl, Arndt Bröder)
- 2009 Ph.D. in Psychology, University of Mannheim (advisors: Edgar Erdfelder, Rüdiger F. Pohl)
Positions
- 2007 - 2009 graduate student, Graduate School of Economic & Social Sciences, University of Mannheim
- 2008 - 2009 research & teaching assistant, Cognition & Individual Differences lab (Erdfelder), University of Mannheim
- 2009 visiting post-doctoral researcher, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn.
- 2010 - 2018 research affiliate, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn.
- 2010 post-doctoral research & teaching assistant, Cognition & Individual Differences lab (Erdfelder), University of Mannheim
- 2011 - 2014 Assistant Professor (German: Juniorprofessor) for Judgment and Decision Making, University of Mannheim
- since 2014 Full Professor for Cognitive Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau
Editorial work and reviewing
- since 2018 associate editor Judgment & Decision Making
- since 2015 associate editor Zeitschrift für Psychologie
- since 2016 consulting editor Journal of Behavioral Decision Making
- since 2016 consulting editor European Journal of Personality
- since 2015 consulting editor Journal of Economic Psychology
- since 2013 consulting editor Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
- 2010-2011 Guest editor (with Andreas Glöckner) for a special issue on "Methodology of JDM research" in the journal Judgment and Decision Making (view full text)
- Ad-hoc reviews for journals:
Acta Psychologica; Advances in Cognitive Psychology; Assessment; Basic and Applied Social Psychology; Behavior Research Methods; British Journal of Social Psychology; Cognition; Current Directions in Psychological Science; Environment & Behavior; European Journal of Personality; European Journal of Psychological Assessment; European Journal of Social Psychology; European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology; European Review of Applied Psychology; Evolutionary Psychology; Experimental Psychology; Frontiers in Cognitive Science; Games; International Journal of Internet Science; Journal of Applied Social Psychology; Journal of Behavioral Decision Making; Journal of Cognitive Psychology; Journal of Conflict Resolution; Journal of Environmental Psychology; Journal of Experimental Child Psychology; Journal of Economic Psychology; Journal of Experimental Political Science; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition; Journal of Experimental Social Psychology; Journal of Individual Differences; Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology; Journal of Personality; Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (Attitudes and Social Cognition / Personality Processes and Individual Differences); Journal of Personality Assessment; Journal of Personnel Psychology; Journal of Pragmatics; Journal of the Royal Society: Interface; Judgment and Decision Making; Legal and Criminological Psychology; Motivation and Emotion; Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes; Personality and Individual Differences; Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin; Personality and Social Psychology Review; Physiology & Behavior; PLOS ONE; Political Communication; Psychological Methods; Psychology of Sport and Exercise; Psychological Bulletin; Psychological Reports; Psychological Research / Psychologische Forschung; Psychonomic Bulletin & Review; Scientific Reports; Social Psychology; Thinking & Reasoning; Zeitschrift für Pädagogische Psychologie; Zeitschrift für Psychologie.
Awards, Grants, and Scholarships
- 2018: Charlotte- and Karl-Bühler-Award of the German Psychological Society. press release laudation
- 2018: Teaching-Award for the lecture "Learning & Memory" (academic year 2017)
- 2018: Teaching-Award for the lecture "Thinking, Decision Making, & Language" (academic year 2017)
- 2017: Co-PI of the Research Training Group "Statistical Modeling in Psychology", funded for 4.5 years by the German Research Foundation (total: 4.8M €)
- 2017: 2year-grant from the German Research Foundation (148k €)
- 2017: Teaching-Award for the lecture "Learning & Memory" (academic year 2016)
- 2017: Teaching-Award for the lecture "Thinking & Language" (academic year 2016)
- 2016: Teaching-Award for the lecture "Learning & Memory" (academic year 2015)
- 2015: 3year-grant from the German Research Foundation (200k €)
- 2013: Teaching-Award for the best English course in Psychology (academic year 2012/2013)
- 2012: Bojanovski-Award for Empirical Models of Social Processes. With Morten Moshagen for the paper "Defection in the dark? A randomized-response investigation of cooperativeness in social dilemma games" (doi)
- 2012. Teaching-Award for the best lecture in Psychology (academic year 2011/2012)
- 2011: 2year-grant from the German Research Foundation (124k €)
- 2011: 3year-grant from the Baden-Württemberg Foundation "Juniorprofessorenprogramm" (117k €)
- 2011: Start-up-grant from the University of Mannheim (13k €)
- 2011: Micro-grant from the Draftfcb Institute of Decision Making (1.7k €)
- 2010: Wiley-Blackwell Award for Outstanding Contribution to the European Journal of Personality. With Ingo Zettler for the paper "Honesty-Humility and a person-situation-interaction at work" (doi)
- 2009: Beattie Award of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making and the European Association for Decision Making
- 2007: Ph.D. Scholarship from the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences, University of Mannheim
- 2007: Scholarship from the Max-Planck Society for attending the International Max-Planck Research School on Adapting Behavior in a Fundamentally Uncertain World, Summer School, MPI Jena
- 2007: Ph.D. Scholarship from the Graduate Academy of the University of Heidelberg.
Societies / Memberships:
- Association for Psychological Science (APS)
- European Association for Decision Making (EADM)
- German Psychological Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie, DGPs)
- Society for Judgment and Decision Making (SJDM)
- Psychonomic Society (Psychonomic Society)
