Positions
02/2023 - present
Research associate in the DFG research project “Diskriminierung von Bewerberinnen und Bewerbern aufgrund ihrer sexuellen Orientierung: Ein experimenteller Untersuchungsansatz” [Discrimination of job applicants on the basis of their sexual orientation: an experimental research approach] at the Department of Social, Environmental, and Economic Psychology (University Koblenz-Landau, Germany)
09/2022 - 01/2023
Parental leave substitute for the Junior Professorship for Social Psychology, Department of Social, Environmental, and Economic Psychology (University Koblenz-Landau, Germany)
09/2021 - present
Research associate at the Department of Social, Environmental, and Economic Psychology (University Koblenz-Landau, Germany), scholar of the Kone Foundation, and affiliated postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Languages (University of Helsinki) in the project “Gender, society, and language use: Evidence from Mexico and Spain” (PI: Pekka Posio)
06/2019 - 08/2021
PI (own position) in the DFG research project “Stimmstereotype gegenüber Frauen und Männern unterschiedlicher sexueller Orientierungen: Eine Kombination aus produktionsbezogenen und perzeptiven Ansätzen” [Vocal stereotypes toward women and men diverging in sexual orientations: A combination of production-related and perceptive approaches] (KA 5005/1-1) at the Department of Social, Environmental, and Economic Psychology (University Koblenz-Landau, Germany)
04/2018 - 03/2019
Group therapist at the Addiction Rehabilitation Clinic Weinböhla, Germany
04/2013 - 2019/05
Research assistant at the Department of Social, Environmental, and Economic Psychology (University Koblenz-Landau, Germany) and the DFG Research Unit “Person Perception” (Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany)
11/2012 - 03/2013
Research associate at the Department of Social Cognition and Cognitive Psychology and the DFG Research Unit “Person Perception” (Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany)
12/2008 - 01/2011
Internship at Podsports (activities in voice coaching and compilation of auditory content on physical trainings)
11/2007 - 06/2009
Research internship and student assistant in the DFG-funded research project “Brain activation during automatic and controlled stimulus processing before and after psychotherapeutic treatment on specific phobia” at the Department of Clinical and Biological Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
04/2006 - 10/2006
Student assistant at the Thuringian University and Federal State Library
Education
05/2018 - present
Advanced training in psychotherapy for groups of adults with cognitive behavioral focus at the IVT Dresden (Germany)
09/2016 - present
Advanced training in psychotherapy for adults (one-on-one sessions) with cognitive behavioral focus at the IVT Dresden (Germany)
01/2013 - 07/2017
PhD in Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany. PhD thesis: “Social markers of sexual orientiation and gender in speech and appearance: A combination of producer- and perceiver-centered approaches” (grade: summa cum laude), supervised by Melanie C. Steffens and Adrian P. Simpson
10/2008 - 02/2013
Bachelor of Arts in Communication and Speech Sciences/Phonetics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany; B.A. thesis: “Mediale Konstruktion von Homosexualität” [Medial construction of homosexuality] (grade: 1,3) supervised by Markus Maurer
10/2005 - 07/2012
Diploma in Psychology (equivalent to M.Sc.; minor in German Linguistics), Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany; Diploma thesis: “Geschlechterrolle oder sexuelle Identität? Eine phonetisch-psychologische Untersuchung weiblicher Sprechweisen” [Gender role or sexual identity? A phonetic-psychological analysis of female speech] (grade: 1,0) supervised by Melanie C. Steffens and Adrian P. Simpson
08/1997 - 06/2005
General qualification for university entrance (grade: 1,4); Ernst Abbe Gymnasium Jena, Germany