Curriculum Vitae

Educational Background

2007-present Postdoctoral Fellow, I-LABS

2006 Ph.D (Dr. rer. nat.) in Psychology, Leipzig Advisors: Mike Tomasello, MPI EVA Beate Sodian, University of Munich (LMU) Chris Moore, Dalhousie University

2001 ‘Diplom’ (German Master’s Degree) in Psychology, Marburg

Research Interests

• Social-cognitive development

• The philosophy and psychology of perspectives

• Social learning including imitation

• Joint action / cooperation

Current Research Projects

• exploring the impact of an adult’s co-presence and communicative actions on young children’s perspective-taking abilities

• young children’s understanding of ‘perceiving as’: when and how do they apprehend that others might perceive a given object in a certain way—which might differ from the way the child herself sees the object (with Andrew Meltzoff and Craig Harris)

Grants and Awards

2007 Dilthey-Fellowship from the VolkswagenStiftung

2002-2006 Doctoral Fellowship from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German National Merit Foundation)

Teaching Experience

2006/2007 Lecture course “Introduction to Developmental Psychology”, University of Leipzig (co-taught with Mike Tomasello and the Social Cognition Group)

2006 Lecture course “Introduction to Developmental Psychology”, University of Leipzig (co-taught with Mike Tomasello and the Social Cognition Group)

2005/06 Lecture course “Introduction to Developmental Psychology”, University of Leipzig (co-taught with Mike Tomasello and the Social Cognition Group)

2005 Lecture course “Introduction to Developmental Psychology II”, University of Leipzig (co-taught with Mike Tomasello and the Social Cognition Group)

2004/05 Seminar “Introduction to Developmental Psychology” (co-taught with Hannes Rakoczy and Tanya Behne)

2004/05 Lecture course “Introduction to Develepmental Psychology I”, University of Leipzig (co-taught with Mike Tomasello and the Social Cognition Group)

1999-2000 Tutorial “Statistics 1” (for Sociology course in statistics), University of Marburg

1997-98 Tutorial “SPSS” (for Sociology course in SPSS), University of Marburg

Ad hoc reviewer for

British Journal of Developmental Psychology

Cognition

Developmental Science

Developmental Psychology

European Review of Philosophy

Infancy

Infant and Child Development

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Professional Memberships

European Society for Philosophy and Psychology

Society for Research in Child Development