2021 - PHD Dr. rer. medic. at Charité

•  Dissertation thesis: Depression bei Patienten mit koronarer Herzkrankheit: neurobiologische Grundlagen und die Erkennungsgüte dreier Screeninginstrumente für Depression

2021 - Training as a psychological psychotherapist

• (adults, behavioral therapy) at ZPHU (Center for Psychotherapy at Humboldt University of Berlin). Practical work: Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

Academic Career

since June 2025: Postdoc and research assistant in the AMBER joint project “Active mobility to promote health and environmental protection” (project website: www.amber-forschung.de, information on the project's citizen science study “Mobil auf Deine Weise” (Mobile in Your Own Way): https://www.mobil-auf-deine-weise.de), Free University of Berlin

2016-2025: Postdoctoral researcher and research assistant at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of Potsdam. Coordinating and management activities in projects including: environMENTAL (Reducing the impact of major environmental challenges on mental health, funded by EU Horizon), DZPG (German Center for Mental Health, funded by the BMBF/BMFTR), PD-CAN (Phenotypic, Diagnostic and Clinical Domain Assessment Network Germany, funded by the BMBF/BMFTR).

2021-2023: Postdoc and research assistant in Department 25 (Physical Health) in Division 2 of the Robert Koch Institute. Co-leader of the KIDA project (Current Child Health in Germany).

September 2020-December 2020: Research assistant at the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (Benjamin Franklin Campus) at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Collaboration (primary data analysis) in the MEHIRA (Mental Health in Refugees and Asylum Seekers) project.

2012–2014: Doctoral candidate and research assistant at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (Charité Mitte Campus) at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin in the CDCare project (Care for patients with coronary heart disease: a needs analysis for patients with and without depression)..