CV

Education and Professional History

Since 2022: Senior Scientist (tenured) at the Department of Basic Psychological Research and Research Methods, Vienna, Austria
2020-2022: Senior Scientist funded via FWF ‘Young Independent Researcher Groups’
2017-2020: Postdoc at the Department of Basic Psychological Research and Research Methods, Vienna, Austria (PI: Prof. Ulrich Ansorge)
2015-2017: Postdoc at the Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, UCL Ear Institute, London, UK (PI: Prof. Maria Chait)
2009-2014: PhD student at the Multisensory Integration Group (PI: Prof. Daniel Senkowski; graduated with magna cum laude)
2011-2014: Department of Psychiatry, Charité Berlin, Germany
2009-2011: Department of Neurophysiology, UKE Hamburg, Germany
2007-2008: 9-month stay at the Lab of Prof. Canan Basar-Eroglu, University of Bremen, Germany
2003-2009: Study of Psychology (Diploma, graduation w. honors), University of Vienna, Austria

2021: Postdoc-Award by the Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna
2020: FWF ‘Young Independent Researcher Groups’ (PI, together with Dr. Michelle Spierings and Dr. Robert Baumgartner)
2020: Elsevier/ Vision Research Travel Award
2020: Vienna Cognitive Science Hub Covid-19 Participant Reimbursement Grant
2016: Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO) travel grant
2016: Action on Hearing Loss travel grant
2015: Organization for Computational Neuroscience travel grant, fully funding a 3-week workshop in the USA
2008: Research scholarship from the University of Vienna
2007, 2008: Erasmus stipend

Since 2021: Supervision of a PhD student
2014-2021: Supervision of eleven MSc students
2019: BSc introductory seminar: ‘Cognitive Foundations of Experience and Behaviour‘
2018-2021: BSc thesis seminar
2017-2020: MSc Seminar ‘Mind and Brain: Neural Oscillations’
2016, 2017: Journal club for MSc in Neuroscience students, UCL
2016: Supervision of 2 highschool students during their 2-week placement at university (in2science program)
2012-2013: Seminar on Learning and Memory, Medical University, Berlin, Germany
2009-2010: Hands-on EEG training, Medical University, Hamburg, Germany
2007-2008: Tutor at the Department of Psychology, University of Bremen, Germany
2006-2007: Tutor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna, Austria

Since 2019: Representative of the ÖGP (Austrian Society for Psychology) Early Career Researchers
2019: Member of the organization team for the 2020 joint ÖGP/ DGPS conference (cancelled due to Covid-19)
2018:: Popular science talk at the Meeting of Directors of Institutes and Schools of Public Administration of the EU (DISPA)
2017: Public engagement via the BBCs ‘Science in Action’ radio program
2017: Public engagement via InsightTVs ‘Secrets of the Brain’ TV show: Measuring and discussing the emotional effect of music on the brain (link)
2016: Public engagement via The Guardian’s ‘Brain Waves’ video series: Measuring and discussing the emotional effect of music on the brain in professional musicians (link)
2011-2012:: Help in setting up a state-of-the-art EEG laboratory at the Charité, Berlin (including a 128-channel EEG system, a soundproof electrically shielded recording booth, a TMS, an eyetracker and a piezoelectric tactile stimulator)

Nature Communications Psychology, Journal of Neuroscience, Neuroimage, Journal of Neurophysiology, European Journal of Neuroscience, Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Psychology, BMC Neuroscience