• Main research interests

    • Comparative thinking (e.g., social comparisons, counterfactual comparisons) and psychopathology

    • Social comparison as an intervention

    • Epidemiology, etiology and treatment of mental disorders (mainly PTSD, depression and social anxiety disorder)

  • Curriculum Vitae

    Extended CV

    since 10/2022
    Coordinator of the trauma ambulance of the University of Münster
    Specialized ambulance for trauma-related mental disorders
    University of Münster, Münster, Germany

    since 08/2020
    Postdoctoral researcher
    Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Münster
    since 03/2024 Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Health Psychology, University of Münster

    since 08/2020
    Local coordinator of the IREM-freq study (multi-center-RCT, PI: Prof. A. Arntz)

    2018 - 2023
    Clinical training to become a CBT therapist, IPP Münster

    08/2017 - 06/2020
    PhD (summa cum laude)
    Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Münster

    2016 - 2017
    Master of Science, Clinical Psychology (cum laude)
    Leiden University, the Netherlands

    2015 - 2016
    Master of Science, Affective Disorders (distinction)
    King's College London, UK

    2012 - 2015
    Bachelor of Science, Psychology (cum laude)
    University of Groningen, the Netherlands

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  • Ad Hoc Reviewer

    BMC Medicine; BMC Psychiatry; BMJ Open; Clinical Psychology Review; Current Psychology; Development and Psychopathology; Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences; European Journal of Psychotraumatology; Heliyon; Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology; Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease; Nature Medicine; Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics.

     

     

  • Memberships

    since 2024
    Münster Center for Open Science (MüCOS)

    since 2023
    Forum Friedenspsychologie / panel for peace psychology

    since 2022
    German Society of Cognitive Behavior Therapy (DGVT)

    2022-2023
    German Association for Psychotherapists (DPtV)

    since 2020
    German-speaking Society for Psychotraumatology (DeGPT)
    European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS)
    German Psychological Society (DGPs)
    DGPs Division for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy 

    2016-2017
    British Psychological Society (BPS)

     

  • Prices

    2023 - Teaching award - best clinical seminar (seminar on major depression)

    2022 - Falk-von-Reichenbach research award (DeGPT)

    2013 - 2020 - Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation (SDV)

    2019 - Short scholarship of the Sybille-Hahne-Stiftung

    2018 - Scholarship of the DeGPT for the first DeGPT Autumn School for young scientists