1996

High school diploma at Gymnasium "Wernher-von-Braun", Friedberg/Bavaria

1996 - 1997

Community service at the general hospital at Friedberg/Bavaria

1997 - 2004

Psychology studies at Julius-Maximilians University Würzburg

2000

Internship at the psychological counseling service of the state prison at Augsburg

2000 - 2001

Part time employment at a nursing home for the elderly at "Juliusspital", Würzburg

2001

Internship at the outpatient center for neurosurgical rehabilitation, Würzburg

2001 - 2002

Research assistant at the department of Biological Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University Hospital of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Würzburg

2001 - 2003

Part time employment as psychological assistant at the outpatient center for neurosurgical rehabilitation, Würzburg

2003 - 2004

Research assistant at the department of Clinical and Biological Psychology, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg

2004

Diploma in psychology; diploma thesis on "High-speed processing of emotional stimuli in patients with Parkinson's Disease and elderly people - An ERP study"

2007

PhD (Thesis: The influence of facial expression and gaze contact on visual attention in social anxiety - Empirical evidence from eyetracking and physiological data)
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since 2008

Post-doctoral research fellow at the Department of Biological Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Würzburg

2008 - 2009

Post-doctoral research fellow at the Center for the Study of Emotion and Attention, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

12/2004

Travel grant (German Research Foundation, DFG) for the "1st International Conference on Aging, Cognition and Neuroscience" in Madrid, Spain

06/2006

Poster award (German Society for Psychophysiology and its Application, DGPA)

10/2006

Travel grant (Society for Psychophysiological Reserach, SPR) for the SPR annual meeting in Vancouver, BC, Canada

12/2006

Scholarship Winterschool "Brain basis of social interaction: From concepts to imaging" in Kitzbühel, funded by the Hertie-Foundation

07/2007

Scholarship Summer School "Riken Brain Science Lecture Summer Program" in Tokio, Japan

04/2008

Travel grant (German Research Foundation, DFG) for the Annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society in San Francisco, USA

10/2008

Research Training Award from the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR)

11/2008

Travel grant (University of Würzburg) for the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Washington DC, USA

01/2009

Postdoctoral research award (German Academic Exchange Council)

03/2009

Dissertation award from the Unterfränkische Gedenkjahrstiftung für Wissenschaft

07/2009

Scholarship Summer Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCSB, CA, USA

04/2010

Travel grant (German Research Foundation, DFG) for the Annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society in Montréal, Canada

05/2010

Workshop "Neuro-cognitive mechanisms of conscious and unconscious visual perception", Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Delmenhorst

03/2011

Travel grant (University of Würzburg) for the Annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society in San Francisco, USA

06/2011

Young Scientist Award of the German Society for Psychophysiology and its Application

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