2008

Venia Legendi, Psychology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

2007

Habilitation in Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

2002

Dr. phil. in Psychology (summa cum laude), Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

1997

German Diploma in Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany

since 2012

Full Professor, Division Health Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

2019 - 2023

Vice-Dean Research, Department of Education and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

2011 - 2012

Visiting Professor, Division Health Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

2007 - 2011

Deputy Director of the Institute of Medical Psychology, Charité – Universitäts­medizin Berlin, Germany

2003 - 2007

Research scientist and lecturer, Institute of Medical Psychology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

2002 - 2003

Research scientist and lecturer, Division Health Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

1998 - 2002

Pre-doctoral research fellow with Prof. Dr. Ralf Schwarzer as a member of the graduate program Psychiatry and Psychology of Aging, Freie Universität Berlin and Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany

1997 - 1998

Pre-doctoral research fellow with Prof. Dr. Gerdi Weidner, State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY, USA

1994 - 1997

Student research assistant with Prof. Dr. Heinz Walter Krohne, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany