Scientific career
04 / 2019 – present                  Principal investigator of Modelling and Neuroprognosis group at Institute for Cognitive Neurology and Dementia Research, OvGU, Magdeburg
 
04 / 2016 – 04 /2019                PostDoc at the Institute for Cognitive Neurology and Dementia Research (Prof. Emrah Düzel), OvGU Magdeburg, Project: Disease Progression Modelling in Dementia

05 / 2015 - 03 / 2016                PostDoc at the Cognition, Emotion & Psychiatric Disorders Group (Prof. Ray Dolan), Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, Project: “Development of fronto-striatal networks and decision making behavior in adolescents” (NSPN) 

04 / 2013 - 04 / 2015                PostDoc at the SPM Methods & Computational Anatomy and Genetics Group (Prof. Karl Friston & Prof. John Ashburner), Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, Project: “Generative Modelling of Brain Trajectories using Longitudinal MRI”

11 / 2012 - 03 / 2013                PostDoc at the Structural Brain Mapping Group
(Prof. Christian Gaser), Department of Psychiatry Jena, University Hospital Jena

09 / 2008 - 09 / 2012                Doctoral student at Structural Brain Mapping Group (Prof. Christian Gaser), Department of Psychiatry Jena, University Hospital Jena, Project: “Lifespan Trajectories and Brain-Behavioral Relationships” 

04 / 2007 - 09 / 2008                PreDoctoral researcher at the Autonomic Function Group (Prof. Bär), Department of Psychiatry Jena, University Hospital Jena, Project: “Methods for Heartrate Variability in Resting-State fMRI”

08 / 2003 - 10 / 2003                Research internship, Functional Neuroanatomy of Frontal Lobe Group (Prof. Yves v. Cramon), Supervisor Dr. Claudia Danielmeier, Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Leipzig
 
Education
10 / 2012                                  PhD in Psychology, University of Zürich
Thesis: “Lifespan Brain Structural Trajectories and Individual Differences of Growth and Decline”
(Prof. Lutz Jäncke and Prof. Christian Gaser)
mark “summa cum laude” 

01 / 2011                                  BSc in Mathematics, University of Jena
Thesis: “Phase Information and Independent Component Analysis for Artifact Extraction in EEG”
(Dr. Lutz Leistritz), mark “very good” 

02 / 2007                                  Diploma Degree Psychology, University of Jena
Thesis: “Application of a Functional Connectivity Model in a Visual Search Paradigm in fMRI” (PD Ralph Schlösser) mark “very good”, “excellent with distinction”

08 / 2003                                  Undergraduate Degree in Physics, University of Jena mark “very good”   
     
09 / 2001                                  Undergraduate Degree in Psychology, University of Jena, “excellent with distinction” 

06 /1998                                   Abitur, Gymnasium Gerstungen, mark 1.0,“excellent with distinction”