Vita

Education

• 2023: PhD (06/2023, University of Würzburg) on „The experience of emotional shifts as a narrative process”
• 2016: Semester abroad at the University of Ottawa, Canada
• 2014 – 2017: M.A. Media and Communication Studies (focus on media psychology), University of Mannheim
• 2010 – 2014: B.A. Media and Communication Studies, University of Mannheim

Research and Teaching

• Since September 2023: Postdoctoral Researcher, Psychology of Communication and New Media, University of Würzburg
• 2018 – 2023: Predoctoral Researcher, Psychology of Communication and New Media, University of Würzburg and in the DFG-funded project “The role of emotional shifts and event-congruent emotions in narrative persuasion” (2018-2021; PIs: Prof. Dr. Markus Appel, Prof. Dr. Tobias Richter)
• 2017 – 2018: Predoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies, University of Mannheim (EU-funded project CONTRA – “Countering radicalization by narration towards anti-radical awareness”) and the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (DFG-funded project “Mediated contestation in comparative perspective”; Prof. Dr. Hartmut Wessler)
• 2013: Internship at the Department for Media Research/Programme Strategies of the Südwestrundfunk (SWR) Stuttgart/Baden-Baden
• 2012 – 2017: Work as Student Assistant in various projects at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies, University of Mannheim and the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research
• 2012 – 2017: Tutor at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies, University of Mannheim