Professional Career

since 09/2025
Professor of Psychological Research Methods and Diagnostics, Institute for Psychology, Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg

01/2022 - 06/2025
Principal Investigator of the DFG Project Conceptual Replications  

(with Prof. Dr. Steffi Pohl, Prof. Dr. Anne Gast & Dr. Mathias Twardawski)                               

06/2019 - 08/2025
Research Associate at the Research Data Center and Methods Development  

Department, Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (Prof. Dr. Christian Aßmann)

                                            

09/2017– 03/2023
Research and Teaching Associate at the Department of Psychological Methods of Educational Research, Otto Friedrich University Bamberg (Prof. Dr. Claus Carstensen)

08/2015 – 08/2016
Parental leave 


04/2012– 08/2017           
Research and Teaching Associate at the Department of Methodology and Evaluation Research, Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Prof. Dr. Rolf Steyer)

09/2011 – 03/2012
Parental leave 


08/2009 – 01/2010         
Research Intern at the Prevention Research Center, Pennsylvania State University, USA (Prof. Dr. Marc Greenberg)

10/2006 – 06/2011         
Student Assistant at the Department of Methodology and Evaluation Research, Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Prof. Dr. Rolf Steyer)

Education

04/2012 – 02/2019         
Doctorate in Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin 

Dissertation topic: Latent covariates 
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Steffi Pohl 


08/2009 – 01/2010         
Exchange Semester at the Pennsylvania State University, USA 

Master & Ph.D. courses in Human Development and Family Studies 

10/2005 – 09/2011         
Diploma in Psychology at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Research-oriented specialisation in Methodology and Evaluation Research