Vita

PERSONAL DETAILS

Date of birth 26.06.1973
Place of birth: Nienburg (Weser), Germany

Education

August 1979 – June 1992	School education, finished with German Abitur (general qualification for university entrance, similar to A- level or high school graduation)
October 1992 - January 1998	Study of Psychology at the University of Bremen, Diploma in Clinical Psychology (1.3)
October 2003 – October 2010	Psychoanalytic Training (DGPT) finished with approbation (1.3)
November 2007	Ph. D. in Psychology. Title of the work: Insight in Violence: The reflective functioning of adolescent violent offenders. (“Summa cum laude”)

Academic Career

September 1997 -July 2005	Trainer for School Mediation, Bremen, Germany
February 1998 – April 2004	Victim-Offender-Mediation in a leading position, Bremen, Germany
August 2002 – January 2006 January 2007 – July 2008 August 2008 – now October 2010 - now	Research Assistant at the University of Bremen, chair Prof. Dr. Ellen Reinke Research Assistant at the University of Ulm, chair Prof. Horst Kächele Research Assistant at the University of Kassel, chair Prof. Dr. Heidi Möller Junior-Professor at the International Psychoanalytic University Berlin, chair for developmental psychology

Additional Qualifications

Sept. 2005 July 2009 April 2010	Reliability for coding „Reflective Functioning“ from the Anna-Freud-Center, London Training to train „Reflective Functioning“ at Anna-Freud-Center, London, England Reliability for coding the Adult-Attachment-Projective Picture Systems from Prof. Dr. Carol George, Berkeley, USA

Research Training

August 2008 01.02.2009-15.05.2009 July 2009 August 2010	“Research Training Program” of the International Psychoanalytic Association, London Fellowship at the Hanse-Institute of Advanced Study, Delmenhorst, Germany Visiting lecturer in Denver, USA, Prof. Dr. Jonathan Shedler Research Training Program of the German Psychoanalytic Society (DPG), Potsdam, Germany
August - September 2011	Guest scientist at the Anna-Freud-Center, London, Prof. Mary Target