Curriculum Vitae
Academic Career
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2009- |
Professor, Developmental Psychology, Georg-August-University |
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2006-2009 |
Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig |
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2004-2006 |
Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, Leipzig University |
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2004 |
Dr. rer. nat., University of Leipzig |
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2000-2003 |
Graduate studies in Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and University of Leipzig |
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1994-2000 |
Diploma studies in Psychology and Philosophy, Universities of Erlangen, Manchester and Trier |
Activities, Fellowships, and Honors (selected)
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2016- |
Co-speaker of the research cluster initiative Primate Cognition (University of Göttingen & German Primate Centre) |
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2015- |
Member of the program committee of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP) |
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2015- |
Member of the Board of Directors, Leibniz-ScienceCampus Primate Cognition |
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2014- |
Managing Director of the Institute of Psychology, University of Göttingen |
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2010- |
Elected Member of the Wilhelm-Wundt-Gesellschaft |
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2007-2012 |
Elected Member of the Junge Akademie |
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2007-2010 |
Member of the scientific board of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP) |
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2006-2013 |
Dilthey Fellowship, Volkswagen Foundation |
Major third-party funding (selected)
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2015-2020 |
Research Training Group Understanding Social Relationships (DFG-funded, Co-PI) |
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2015-2018 |
Leibniz Science Campus Primate Cognition (Co-PI) |
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2015-2018 |
Research Network Crossing the borders: The interplay of language, cognition, and the brain in early human development (DFG-funded, Co-PI) |
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2015-2018 |
Ontogenetic roots and cultural foundations of dual representations of social groups (funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, with Gil Diesendruck) |
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2014-2017 |
A Cross-Cultural Developmental Investigation of Inter-Group Biases in the Conceptualization of Others (funded by the German-Israeli Foundation, with Gil Diesendruck) |
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2014-2017 |
The evolutionary and ontogenetic roots of intuitive statistics (DFG-funded, with Josep Call) |
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2012-2019 |
The ontogeny of social epistemology |
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2011-2014 |
Graduate School Foundations of Primate Social Behaviour (funded by the Leibniz Association, Co-PI) |
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2007-2014 |
Courant Research Centre “Evolution of Social Behaviour” (DFG-funded, Co-PI) |
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2006-2013 |
The development of individual and collective intentionality (Dilthey Fellowship funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, PI) |