Vita

Research Positions

From 03/2024

Scientist Psychoacoustics & Noise Effects | Empa Dübendorf

Laboratory for Acoustics / Noise Control

03/2022 – 03/2024

PostDoc Psychoacoustics & Noise Effects | Empa Dübendorf

Laboratory for Acoustics / Noise Control

10/2018 – 12/2021

PhD Fellow | University of Vienna

Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology

02/2016 – 08/2016

Research Assistant | Heinrich-Heine University

Institute of Language and Information

11/2014 – 05/2015

Research Assistant | University of Bielefeld

Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies
 

 

Education

10/2018 – 11/2021                              PhD Cognitive Psychology (Dr. rer. nat.) | University of Vienna

Grade: 1 (excellent), graduated with honors. Supervisor: Ulrich Ansorge Thesis: Color me your color: A cross-cultural investigation into

implicit associations between color and valence

10/2013 – 09/2015                              M.A. Linguistics | University of Bielefeld

Grade: 1.3. Supervisor: Annett Jorschick

Thesis: Colour Me Intrigued: Do Colours Activate Emotional Word Meaning?

10/2010 – 07/2013                              B.A. English & Scandinavian Studies | Humboldt-University of Berlin

Grade: 1.4. Supervisor: Sophie Repp

Thesis: Understanding Idioms and Metaphors. How Do We Process Non-Literal Language?

Teaching & Co-Supervision

Summer 2021                      Psycholinguistics | Master Seminar Psychology University of Vienna

Winter 2019                         Programming psychological experiments in Python | Master Seminar Psychology University of Vienna (Co-Teacher)

Master’s Theses                  Psychology (‘The red-anger congruence effect: Metaphor congruency or polarity correspondence?’), Psycholinguistics (‘Testing for concealed language knowledge using brightness- valence response congruence’)

Bachelor’s Thesis               Psychology (‘Bilingual Cognition and the Distance to Language’)

Grants

01/2020, 12/2020               Research scholarship, University of Vienna (€1,800)

07/2020                                  JUWI COVID-19 Fellowship, University of Vienna (€1,187)

10/2018                                  ÖAW-DOC; Co-PI with Ulrich Ansorge, University of Vienna (€115,500)