Current position

07/2022 – today

Assistant Professor of Public Health and Health Services Research (Tenure Track to W2)                                                                                           Otto-von-Guericke-University (OvGU) Magdeburg (Germany) Medical Faculty (FME)                                                                           Institute of Social Medicine and Health Systems Research (ISMG)

Academic activities

10/2016 – 06/2022	Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany) Faculty of Philosophy  Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy Post-doc
01/2015 – 12/2015	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (the Netherlands) Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences Department of Clinical, Neuro and Developmental Psychology  PhD Student
10/2011 – 12/2014	Leuphana University Lüneburg (Germany) Innovation Incubator “Online Health Trainings” PhD Student

Education

2012 – 2017	Binational PhD (with highest distinction, “summa cum laude”) „Web-based Prevention of Major Depression“  Leuphana Universität Lüneburg & Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (the Netherlands) (Prof. Dr. Matthias Berking & Prof. Dr. Pim Cuijpers)
2009 – 2011	Health Science Research Master (M.Sc.) Maastricht University, the Netherlands
2006 – 2009	European Public Health (B.Sc.) Maastricht University, the Netherlands

Memberships
Representative of the Global Consortium for Depression Prevention (GCDP) (2023 - today)
Member of the German Society for Public Health (DGPH)
Director of the International Society for Research on Internet Interventions (ISRII) (2020 - 2024)
Member of the German Society for Health Economics (DGGÖ)
Member and Co-Director of the Division of Health Systems Research, Health Services Research and Health Economics of the German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention (DGSMP) (2018 - today)
Member of the International Society for Research on Internet Interventions (ISRII)
Member of the German Society for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy (DGPs)
Member of the Global Consortium for Depression Prevention (GCDP)
Member of the European Society for Research on Internet Interventions (ESRII)

Co-editorial
Topic Editor “Special Issue for the ISRII 2025 meeting” in Internet Interventions
Associate Editor of BMC Digital Health (2024 – today)
Topic Editor “Special Issue for the ISRII 2022 meeting” in Internet Interventions (2023 – 2024)
Associate Editor of Frontiers in Digital Health (2020 – today)
Topic Editor Research Topic “How to Help Employees Returning to Work Following Depression” in Frontiers in Psychiatry (2020)
Topic Editor Section “Digital Health” of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2019)
Associate Editor of BMC Trials (2017 – today)                                 

Scientific activities

05/2025 – today	Member of the Leibniz ScienceCampus Digital Public Health Bremen (LSC DiPH) Stakeholder Advisory Board
05/2025	Review Board of the 60th conference of the German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention (DGSMP), Dresden (Germany)
02/2025 – today	Member of the S2k Guideline Development Group: Long COVID in Children and Adolescents – Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany (AWMF)
05/2024	Reviewer for the German Federal Ministry of Health (BMG)
02/2024	Review Board of the 12th meeting of the ISRII, Limerick (Ireland)
2023 – today	Reviewer for the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
2015 – today	Ad hoc Reviewer: e.g. New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet Psychiatry, JAMA Psychiatry, British Journal of Psychiatry, Journal of Medical Internet Interventions, Psychotherapy & Psychosomatics, Internet Interventions, Journal of Affective Disorder, Scientific Reports, Plos One, mHealth