Academic Background

Since 2011: Head of the independent research group Multisensory-Mind, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité, University Medicine Berlin. Director: Prof. Dr. Andreas Heinz.

2006-2011: Scientific Staff and Head of the EEG Research Group, Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf. Director: Prof. Dr. Andreas K. Engel.

2010: Habilitation and venia legendi in Psychology. Department of Psychology, University of Hamburg. Title of the habilitation: Cognitive and stimulus-driven influences on multisensory processing.

2004-2006: Post-Doctoral Fellow at Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory, Program in Cognitive Neuroscience and Schizophrenia, New York. Director: Prof. Dr. John J. Foxe.

2005-2006: Adjunct Professorship, Department of Psychology, City College of New York.

2001-2004: Ph.D. student at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig. Project: Differentiating visual working memory from feature binding and selective attention. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christoph S. Herrmann.

2002-2003: Visiting researcher at the Woldorff Laboratory, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, North Carolina. Director: Prof. Dr. Marty G. Woldorff.

1999-2001: Research Assistant at the University Hospital Benjamin Franklin, Psychiatric Clinic, Free University Berlin, Laboratory of Clinical Psychophysiology. Supervisor: Dr. Juergen Gallinat.

1998-1999: Research Assistant at the University Hospital Benjamin Franklin, Free University, Department of Gerontopsychiatry. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Margret M. Baltes and Prof. Dr. Frieder R. Lang.