Since 2022
Professor
Institute of Psychology, Universität Greifswald
Since 2021
Freigeist Fellow (funded by the VolkswagenStiftung)
Faculty of Psychology and Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop, Technische Universität Dresden
Since 2020
Junior research group leader (TU Dresden Young Investigator)
Human Perception and Action Laboratory
Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop, Technische Universität Dresden
2017-2020
Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Actions Post-doctoral research fellow
Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, University College London
PI: Prof. Karl Friston
2015-2017
Post-doctoral researcher
Neurocomputation and Neuroimaging Unit, Freie Universität Berlin
PI: Prof. Felix Blankenburg
2011-2015
Ph.D. (Psychology, Grade: Summa cum laude)
Department of Education and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin and Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Thesis: A generative model of body ownership and minimal selfhood
Supervisor: Prof. Felix Blankenburg, Prof. Arno Villringer
2008-2009
Graduate Minor (Cognitive Science, Grade: A)
Department of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Supervisors: Prof. James Cutting, Prof. David Field
2005-2011
Diploma (Psychology, Grade: A)
Department of Psychology, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Thesis: The influence of induced expectations on illusory experience in the rubber hand illusion
Supervisors: Dr. Daniel Holt, Prof. Joachim Funke
Awards and scholarships
Member of the Junge Akademie (2022)
TU Dresden Young Investigator status (2021)
Volkswagenstiftung Freigeist Fellowship (2021)
Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Actions individual fellowship (2017)
Merit abstract award (Organization for Human Brain Mapping, 2016)
Dissertation prize of the Barbara-Wengeler-Stiftung, awarded for fostering the interdisciplinary exchange between neuroscience and philosophy (2015)
Postdoctoral scholarship (Berlin School of Mind and Brain, 2014-2015, 6 months)
Trainee abstract award (Organization for Human Brain Mapping, 2013)
Ph.D. scholarship (Berlin School of Mind and Brain, 2011-2014, 36 months)
Travel grant USA (Fulbright Foreign Student Program, 2008)
Graduate exchange scholarship: Cornell University, NY (Cornell-Heidelberg exchange program, 2008-2009, 2 semesters)
Student scholarship (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, 2005-2011)
Editorial functions
Editor for Scientific Reports
Associate Editor for Frontiers in Psychology
Reviewer functions
Body Image; Brain Imaging and Behavior; Brain Research; Cerebral Cortex; Cognition; Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience; eLife; Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence; Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience; Frontiers in Human Neuroscience; Frontiers in Psychology; IEEE VR; Journal of Clinical Medicine; Journal of Cognitive Psychology; Journal of Experimental Psychology: General; Journal of Neuroscience; MIT Press; NeuroImage; Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews; Neuroscience of Consciousness; New Ideas in Psychology; PLoS Computational Biology; PLoS One; Philosophical Psychology; Psychology and Neuroscience; Psychophysiology; Scientific Reports; Trends in Cognitive Sciences; WIREs Cognitive Science.
Program committee member for the Designed Mind Symposium (Edinburgh, November 2017).
Scholarship committee member for the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (2015 and 2016).