Chair of Mechatronics
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Faculty of Engineering

University of Duisburg-Essen
Lotharstrasse 1
47057 Duisburg
Germany

Habilitation (Venia legendi) in the field of Human Factors and Ergonomics, University of Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Engineering Sciences; Title: The Human Brain in the Digital Age: Studies on Cognitive, Adaptive and Mental Processes in Interaction with New Technologies

PhD (Dr. phil.) at the Research and Treatment Centre for Mental Health at the Ruhr University Bochum, (Germany); working title: Digital media use in children and adolescents; supervisor: PD Dr Julia Brailovskaia; second assessor: Prof. Dr Jürgen Margraf

PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Science and Applied Cognitive Sciences, Department of General Psychology: Cognition, Duisburg (Germany); title: An Affected Mind - On the relevance of additional demands, task difficulty and the process of aging (magna cum laude); supervisor: Prof. Dr Matthias Brand; second reviewer: Prof. Dr Julia Karbach.

Speaker of the Engineering Psychology Section of the German Psychological Society

Co-Founder and Scientific Director, CoDiVe - Society for Digitalization and Behavioral Research (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

Head of the working group “Human-Factors and Cognition”

Department of Mechatronics & Department of General Business Administration and Mobility, University Duisburg-Essen (Germany) 

(Prof. Dr. Ing. Dr. h.c. Dieter Schramm & Prof. Dr. Ellen Enkel)

Project member

Institute for Driver Assistance and Connected Mobility, Kempten University of Applied Sciences (Germany) (Prof. Bernhard Schick)

Postdoc

Department of Mechatronics University Duisburg-Essen (Germany) (Prof. Dr. Ing. Dr. h.c. Dieter Schramm) 

Postdoc 

Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm (Sweden) (Prof. Dr. Torkel Klingberg)

Research assistant/Postdoc

Fachgebiet Allgemeine Psychologie: Kognition, Universität Duisburg-Essen (Germany) (Prof. Dr. Matthias Brand) 

Representation of the lecture: Theories of Ageing & Psychological Interventions in Old Age, Gerontology B.A., University Vechta (Germany)

Research assistant 

Institute for Complex Systems Research, Hochschule Fresenius, University of Applied Sciences, Idstein (Germany) (Prof. Dr. Christian T. Haas)

Proposed for nomination as a candidate for the Young Academy of the Leopoldina by the University of Duisburg-Essen

Centre for Start-ups and Innopreneurship. Winner of the ideas competition (title: Mental stress in everyday life - an application for recording, evaluating and optimising)

Mattias o Sonia Westman Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm (Sweden) (sum: 24,000€)

Finalist at Falling Walls Lab, Young Innovator of the Year 2015, Berlin (Germany).

IFK Science Award (Bachelor thesis: Training control and competence development in Parkinson's disease)