Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture

Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig

phone: +49 (341) 3550 - 315
fax: +49 (341) 3550 - 333

Curriculum Vitae

Current Position

03/2018-present

PhD candidate in Behavioral Ecology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture
Project title: “Social learning in structured populations: Theoretical and empirical approaches”
Supervisors: Prof Richard McElreath, Dr Anne Kandler, Prof Daniel Haun

University Education

09/2016-09/2017	University of St Andrews, United Kingdom M.Sc. (with distinction) Evolutionary and Comparative Psychology: The Origins of Mind
10/2012-08/2016	Philipps-University Marburg, Germany B.Sc. Psychology (final grade: 1.0) B.A. Comparative Studies in Culture and Religion, Philosophy (final grade: 1.3)

Fellowships

1/2012-03/2018

Scholarship student
with the German National Academic Foundation
(Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes)

Academic Experience

11/2016-08/2017	Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolution, University of St Andrews M.Sc. student Supervision: Prof Dr Kevin Laland Niche construction and the strength and temporal dynamics of natural selection in the wild Assembly of large dataset of selection gradients and Bayesian mixed-effect meta-analysis
10/2015-08/2016	Department of Experimental and Biological Psychology, Philipps-University Marburg B.Sc. student at the Cognitive Neuroscience of Perception and Action group Supervision: Prof Dr Anna Schubö, Dipl.-Psych. Dominik Dötsch Experimental research project on cooperation and attention in joint action Training in neuroscientific methods including EEG, eye- and motion tracking
12/2013-08/2016	Research Assistant at the Associative learning group Supervision: Prof Dr Harald Lachnit, Dr Metin Uengoer, Dr Anna Thorwart Conducted and analyzed (bio-)psychological experiments Lab management including participant recruitment and allocation of experimenters
10/2015-03/2016	Department of Comparative Cultural Research at Philipps-University Marburg B.A. Student at European Ethnology group Supervision: Prof Dr Karl Braun Conducted research project on Darwin’s role in politics with a focus on Russian anarchism Historical methods and discourse analysis
04/2015-09/2015	Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara Research Intern at Cultural Psychology lab Supervision: Prof Dr Heejung Kim Experimental study on cultural frame switching in Asian-American biculturals Training in cross-cultural, neuroscientific and genetic methods

Language, Statistics and Programming skills

Fluent in German (native) and English (IELTS Academic overall band score: 8.0), proficient in Latin, Ancient Greek and French
Experienced in (Bayesian) generalized mixed models
Working knowledge in mathematical and individual-based modelling
Experienced in R, SPSS and MPlus statistics
Basic programming experience in Python and Matlab
Experience with E-Prime, Tobii eye tracking software and PsyToolkit

Teaching experience

04/2018	Undergraduate seminar on Cultural Evolution and Social Learning
04/2016-08/2016	Introductory seminar in Perception Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience
04/2014-08/2015	Tutor in Experimental Methods module