• Research and teaching
• Applied sports psychology
• Intern supervision

10/2025 – 09/2026

Postdoc at the Institute of Sport Sciences, Dept. Sport and Exercise Psychology at Dortmund University (Prof. Dennis Dreiskämper)

since 11/2019

Postdoc (6.5 years) at the Institute of Psychology (Prof. Markus Raab), German Sport University Cologne

2019 – 2023

Associated researcher (5 years) at „iSearch“ (Prof. Azzurra Ruggeri) at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany

Promotion, 10/2018

Dr. rer. nat. in Psychology, Prof. Markus Raab, German Sport University Cologne, Germany

2014 – 2018

Pre-doctoral researcher (6 months) and PhD student (3.5 years) with a stipend from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation at the Institute of Psychology (Prof. Markus Raab), German Sport University Co-logne

• Visiting researcher (2 months) at „Early Cognitive Development Lab“ (Prof. Caren Walker) at the Institute of Psychology, University of California San Diego, USA
• Visiting researcher (3 months) at „iSearch“ (Prof.  Azzurra Ruggeri) at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany

2013 – 2014

Pre-doctoral researcher (6 months) at the Dept. of Health Psychology and Diagnostics (Prof. Britta Renner), University of Konstanz

M.Sc. Psychology, 2013
University of Konstanz, Deutschland

• Influence of cognitive processes on sports performance, especially in children at early developmental stages.

• Interaction and development of cognitive and motor processes during childhood, their changes through experience, and their contribution to predicting future (sports) expertise.

• Developmental embodied-cognition perspective on complex actions in sports.

• Interplay of sport-specific and general cognitive processes across different sports.