Current Position

since 2015

Research associate, ceres – Cologne Center for Ethics, Rights, Economics and Social Sciences of Health, Institute of Sociology and Social Psychology, University of Cologne (Prof. Dr. Michael Wagner). UoC-funded project "Quality of life and well-being in the very old in NRW".

Associated researcher, German Institute for International Educational Research DIPF, Department for Educational Quality and Evaluation (Prof. Dr. Eckart Klieme, Prof. Dr. Johannes Hartig), Frankfurt am Main 

Associated researcher, Goethe University Frankfurt, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Interdisciplinary Ageing Research (Prof. Dr. Frank Oswald), Frankfurt am Main 

Employment

2012-2015

Research associate, German Institute for International Educational Research DIPF, Department for Educational Quality and Evaluation (Prof. Dr. Eckart Klieme, Prof. Dr. Johannes Hartig), Frankfurt am Main

2010

Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and the Centre for Ageing and Supportive Environments (CASE, Prof. Dr. Susanne Iwarsson), Lund University, Sweden

2009 - 2014

Research associate, Goethe University Frankfurt, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Interdisciplinary Ageing Research (Prof. Dr. Frank Oswald), Frankfurt am Main

2005-2009

Research associate, Heidelberg University, Institute of Gerontology (Prof. Dr. Andreas Kruse), Heidelberg

Education

2009

Ph.D. in Psychology (Dr. phil.), Heidelberg University, Institute of Gerontology, Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Andreas Kruse and Prof. Dr. Joachim Funke

2004

Diploma in Psychology, Heidelberg University, German Centre for Research on Ageing (DZFA), Department of Environmental and Social Gerontology, Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Hans-Werner Wahl and Prof. Dr. Manfred Amelang