• 2017 - 2020: B.Sc. Psychology (University of Mannheim)
• 2020 - 2022: M.Sc. Psychology (University of Koblenz-Landau)
• 10/2022 - 09/2025: doctoral candidate in the DFG Research Training Group "Statistical Modeling in Psychology" (SMiP)
• since 10/2022: scientific assistant at the work group Personality, Psychological Assessment, and Psychological Methods (Department of Psychology, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau)
• 02/2023 - 09/2023: commissarial deputy doctoral representative in the Department of Psychology, member of the doctoral representative committee of the RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
• 10/2023 - 09/2024: doctoral representative in the Department of Psychology, member of the doctoral representative committee of the RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
• 10/2024 - 09/2025: doctoral representative in the Department of Psychology, member of the doctoral representative committee of the RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
• 10/2024 - 09/2025: spokesperson of the doctoral representative committee (Landau) of the RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
• 10/2024 - 09/2025: delegate in the TU-Nachwuchsring; spokesperson of the Committee for Networking & Communication; member of the Board of Management

Publications (peer reviewed)

• Van Peursem, S.*, Ecker, S.*, & Maier, M. (2023). The quest of measuring Authoritarianism: A comparison of German short scales. Politische Psychologie, 11(1), 25-41. https://doi.org/10.2440/010-0003
  * shared first authorship

Conference contributions

• Ecker, S., Ulitzsch, E., & Lischetzke, L. (2025, September 28–October, 1). Estimating trait negative emotion differentiation: How many measurement occasions and emotion items are needed? [Individual talk]. 17th Conference of the Methods & Evaluation Section of the German Psychological Society (DGPs), Berlin, Germany.
• Ecker, S., Ottenstein, C., Vollbracht, D., & Lischetzke, T. (2025, June 30–July 04). Examining the robustness of findings on negative emotion differentiation using a multiverse analysis of three ambulatory assessment data sets [Poster presentation]. SMiP Summer School 2025, Mannheim, Germany.
• Ecker, S., Ottenstein, C., Vollbracht, D., & Lischetzke, T. (2025, May 26–28). Examining the robustness of findings on negative emotion differentiation using a multiverse analysis of three ambulatory assessment data sets [Poster presentation]. Society for Ambulatory Assessment Conference 2025, Leuven, Belgium.
• Ecker, S., Ottenstein, C., Vollbracht, D., & Lischetzke, T. (2024, September 16–19). Does the Procedure Matter? Applying a Multiverse Analysis Approach to Negative Emotion Differentiation [Talk in a symposium]. 53rd DGPs Congress / 15th ÖGP Conference, Vienna, Austria.
• Ecker, S., Ottenstein, C., Vollbracht, D., & Lischetzke, T. (2023, October 4–6). Does the procedure matter? Applying a multiverse analysis approach to negative emotion differentiation [Individual talk in a paper session]. Emotions 2023 Conference, Tilburg, The Netherlands. osf.io/z235p/
• Ecker, S., Ottenstein, C., Vollbracht, D., & Lischetzke, T. (2023, June 26–30). Does the procedure matter? Applying a multiverse analysis approach to ambulatory assessment data to examine the robustness of findings on negative emotion differentiation [Poster presentation]. SMiP Summer School 2023, Mannheim, Germany.
• Ecker, S., Ottenstein, C., Vollbracht, D., & Lischetzke, T. (2023, June 5–7).  Does the procedure matter? Applying a multiverse analysis approach to ambulatory assessment data to examine the robustness of findings on negative emotion differentiation [Poster presentation]. Society for Ambulatory Assessment Conference 2023, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• Ecker, S., Köther, A. K., Büdenbender, B., & Alpers, G. W. (2020). Partizipative Entscheidungsfindung: Eine krankheitsspezifische Erfassung der Patientenbedürfnisse. In G. W. Alpers (Hrsg.), Grundlagen- und Psychotherapieforschung Hand in Hand - trotz Social Distancing: Eingereichte Abstracts für das verschobene 38. Fachgruppensymposium Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie 2020 Bd. 2: Posterbeiträge (S. 102). Lehrstuhl für Klinische Psychologie, Biologische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, Universität Mannheim. https://madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/55993/