Prof. of Clinical Psychology and Violence Research
10/2023 | Deputy Scientific Director, Institute for Interdisciplinary Conflict and Violence Research, Bielefeld, University, Germany |
10/2023 | Professor (full) of Clinical Psychology & Violence Research, Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University, Germany |
01/2021 | Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology & Violence Research (former: Clincal Developmental Psychopathology), Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University, Germany |
08/2020 |
Emmy-Noether Junior Research Group Leader, Institute for Interdisciplinary Conflict and Violence Research & Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University, Germany |
11/2016 – 07/2020 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University, Germany |
01/2015 – 12/2016 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow and subdivision leader “Consequences of trauma and violence” at the Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
2013 | Dr. rer. nat. (PhD), University of Konstanz, Germany, Degree: summa cum laude |
04/2011 – 12/2014 | Scientific associate at the Department of Psychology and at the Center of Excellence for Psychotraumatology, University of Konstanz, Germany |
2011 | Diploma (MSc) in Psychology at the Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany |
2020 | Licensed to practice psychotherapy with children and adolescents |
2019 | Licensed to practice psychotherapy with adults |
2023 | Offered Full Professorship (W3) for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology at the Otto-Friedrich-University of Bamberg, Germany (declined) |
2022 | Offered Full Professorship (W3) for Clincal Psychology & Psychotherapy at the University Mannheim, Germany (declined) |
2021 – 2023 |
Membership in the Junges Kolleg of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Science and the Arts |
2020 |
Admission to the Emmy Noether Program of the German Research Foundation (DFG) |
2019/2020 | Postdoctoral Fellow of the Daimler and Benz Foundation |
2019 | Offered Junior Professorship (Assistant Professorship) for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology at the University of Witten-Herdecke, Germany (rejected) |
2019 | Ranked third in the appointment procedure for the Junior Professorship (Assistant Professorship) with tenure track in Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and Psychotherapy at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany |
2018 | Nomination for the academics-Nachwuchspreis 2018: Young Scientist of the Year (Top-10 position) |
2017 | DeGPT Advancement Award of the Falk-von-Reichenbach Foundation and the German-Speaking Society of Psychotraumatology |
2014 | Poster award at the DGPPN, Berlin for the study: Child maltreatment, mental health, and modifications in the DNA methylation in the HPA axis: a study with children in Tanzania |
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
2022- today | Training as a child and adolescent psychotherapist with focus on behavioural therapy |
2021-today |
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Conflict and Violence Research, Bielefeld University (Germany) |
2017-2021 |
PhD scholar at the Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University (Germany) |
2019-2020 |
Research staff at the Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University (Germany) |
2011-2017 |
Studies of Psychology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (Germany), Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg (Germany) and Linköping University (Sweden) |
2021 - today | Postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Conflict and Violence Research, Bielefeld University (Germany) and Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University (Germany) |
2019 - today | member of the Open Science Initiative of the Faculty of Psychology at the Ruhr-University Bochum |
2020 - today | supervising bachelor theses |
2019-2020 | supervising the experimental psychology lab for bachelor students at the Ruhr-University of Bochum |
2018 - 2021 | PhD student at the Department of Genetic Psychology (Prof. R. Kumsta) at the Ruhr-University Bochum |
2012-2018 | student research assistant and tutor at the chair of Research Methods and Experimental Psychology (Prof. Ch. Stahl) at the University of Cologne |
2014-2018 | Master of Science in Psychology (research major) at the University of Cologne |
2011-2014 | Bachelor of Science in Psychology at the University of Cologne |
2023 – today |
Postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Conflict and Violence Research, Bielefeld University (Germany) and Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University (Germany) |
2021 – 2022 |
Project-related research advisor at the Department of Politics & Public Administration at the University of Konstanz (Germany) |
2017 – 2020 |
PhD student at the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy (Prof. Frank Neuner), Bielefeld University (Germany) |
2014 – 2017 |
Master of Science studies in Psychology (research major) at the University of Konstanz (Germany) and the University of Bourgogne (France) |
2010 – 2014 | Bachelor of Science studies in Psychology at the University of Konstanz (Germany) |
Psychological trauma and trauma-related psychosocial implications
Systemic drivers, associations and prevention of gender-based violence
Systemic drivers, associations and prevention of violence against children and adolescents
Ph.D. student/ Research Associate
2021 - today |
Ph.D. candidate, Bielefeld University - Institute for Interdisciplinary Conflict and Violence Research & Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University |
2014-2017 |
University of Dar es Salaam - M.A. (Applied Social Psychology) |
2015-2016 | University of Zurich (Guest Student) - (Courses in M.Sc. Psychology) |
2007-2010 |
Tumaini University, Iringa College - (Bachelor Degree of Counselling) |
Book: The fate of AIDS Orphans in Orphan Care centres in Tanzania: The influence of Orphan Care centre on helping AIDS Orphans children to cope with their orphanhood in Tanzania
Since 2020 |
Ph.D. candidate and research associate, Department of Psychology and the Institute for Interdisciplinary Conflict and Violence Research (IKG) at the University of Bielefeld since autumn 2020, Bielefeld University, Germany |
2016-2017 |
Master’s in International Child Development, University of Haifa, Israel. |
2010-2012 | Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Project Management, Sikkim Manipal University, India. |
1998-2002 |
Bachelor of Education in Population and Family Life, (Bed. POP/FLE), |
2022-present | Research associate at the Child and Youth Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Clinic Bethel (Bielefeld) |
2021- present |
Ph.D. student under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Tobias Hecker at the Department of Psychology and Sports Science, Bielefeld University (Germany) |
2020-2021 |
Data Analyst for Child Abuse Investigations at Epiq Global (USA) |
2018 – 2019 |
Research Program Coordinator at the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Adolescent Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (USA) |
2016 – 2017 |
T.J. Watson Fellow at the Watson Foundation (USA) |
2012 – 2016 |
International Studies and Psychology student at Haverford College (USA) |
Winter 2014 |
Teaching assistant at the Department of Psychology, Bryn Mawr College (USA) |
2020 –2021 |
Clementine Cope Fellowship (scholarship to pursue graduate education; Haverford College, USA) |
2016 – 2017 |
Watson Fellowship (grant for independent, purposeful study on a topic of choice in international context; Watson Foundation, USA) |
Summer 2016 |
Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities Research Grant (Haverford College, USA) |
Summer 2014 |
Center for Peace and Global Citizenship Award (grant to pursue summer internship with an NGO; Haverford College, USA) |
July 2012 |
German Foreign Office and Pedagogical Exchange Service Award (Auswärtiges Amt & Pädagogischer Austauschdienst, AATG/PAD cultural immersion study trip, Germany) |
2021-today |
Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Psychology (Workinggroup Clinical Psychology & Developmental Psychopathology) |
2021-today | M.A.S. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the University of Bern (Switzerland) |
2021-today | Training as a psychological psychotherapist (adults) with focus on behavioural therapy at the DGVT-Academy, Bielefeld |
2022-23 | Emergency Psychologist (BDP, Germany) |
2019-2021 | M.Sc. Psychology at the Bielefeld University (Germany) and University of Lisbon (Portugal) |
2016-2019 | B.Sc. Psychology at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen (Germany) and Bielefeld University (Germany) |
October 2022 - today | Ph.D. candidate, Bielefeld University - Institute for Interdisciplinary Conflict and Violence Research & Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University |
2019 – 2022 | Master of Education in Biology Education, University of Rwanda – Rukara Campus |
2018 – 2020 | Master of Education in Educational Psychology, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda |
2013 – 2016 | Bachelor of Science with Education, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda |
April 2022 – today | DAAD PhD Scholarship at Bielefeld University, Germany |
May 2022 | Studienstiftung PhD funding at Bielefeld University, Germany (waived) |
June 2022 | Commonwealth Scholarship at Liverpool John Moores University, UK (waived) |
2019 – 2021 | Master´s Fellowship Program at University of Rwanda by the Inter-University of Science and Technology |
2024 - today | Training as a child and adolescent psychotherapist with focus on behavioral therapy |
2024 - today | Research associate at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Conflict and Violence Research, Bielefeld University, Germany and Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University, Germany |
2020 - today | Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Conflict and Violence Research, Bielefeld University, Germany and Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University, Germany |
2020 - 2024 | Research associate at the University Clinic of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Protestant Hospital Bethel, Bielefeld University, Medical School EWL, Bielefeld, Germany |
2019 | Training in adventure education at the Interakteam GmbH, Detmold, Germany |
2017 - 2020 | Master of Science in Psychology at the Bielefeld University, Germany |
2014 - 2017 | Bachelor of Sciences in Psychology at the Bielefeld University, Germany |
2024 - today | Research Associate, Institute for Interdisciplinary Conflict and Violence Research & Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University (Germany) |
2021 - 2024 | Master of Science in Psychology at Heidelberg University (Germany) and UC Chile (Chile) |
2017 - 2021 | Bachelor of Science in Psychology at Trier University (Germany) and University of Salamanca (Spain) |
2024 -present |
Ph.D. candidate and research associate, Institute for Interdisciplinary Conflict and Violence Research & Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University, Germany |
2019 -present |
Training to become a Psychological Psychotherapist (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), Centre for Psychological Psychotherapy, Heidelberg University, Germany |
2018 - 2024 |
Research associate, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Heidelberg University, Germany |
2016 - 2018 |
M.Sc. in Psychology, University of Regensburg, Germany |
2013 - 2016 |
B.Sc. in Psychology, University of Regensburg, Germany |
2023 - present |
Ph.D. Student, Dept. of Peace & Conflict Research, Uppsala University |
2020 - 2023 |
Research Assistant, Dept. of Peace & Conflict Research, Uppsala University |
2021 | M.A. Cultural Anthropology, Uppsala University (Sweden) |
2019 - 2020 |
Intern. Dept. of Peace & Conflict Research, Uppsala University |
2016 | Psychology, University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) |
2023 - today |
Scientific assistant at the department of clinical developmental psychopathology, Bielefeld University (Germany); affiliated with the research project supported by the Emmy Noether Programme: “Effects of violence and maltreatment on the development and well-being of children: Experimental approaches to studying the causal effects of maltreatment reduction” |
2020-today |
Studying the B.Sc. Psychology at Bielefeld University (Germany) |
2023 - today |
Scientic assistant at the department of clinical developmental psychopathology, Bielefeld University (Germany); affiliated with the reasearch project „CANVAS (children, attitudes, norms, violence, and society): do social meanings of violence affect developement of adverse outcomes?“ |
2020-today |
Studying the B.Sc. Psychology at Bielefeld University (Germany) |
2023 - today | Scientific assistant at the Department of "Clinical Psychology and Violence Research", Bielefeld University (Germany) |
2022 - today | M.Sc., Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Bielefeld University (Germany) |
2022 - 2023 | Scientific assistant at the International Office, Bielefeld University (Germany) |
2017 - 2022 | B.Sc., Psychology, Bielefeld University (Germany) |
2019 | Scientific assistant at the Department of "Differential Psychology, Personality Psychology and Psychological Assessment", Bielefeld University (Germany) |