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Employment
| 2025 - present | Postdoc in the Social Psychology research group RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany |
| 2023 - 2025 | Lecturer in the Department of Psychology University of Washington, USA |
Education
| 2025 | Ph.D. in Psychology University of Washington, USA Dissertation: Workplace sexual harassment of non-prototypical women: Cognitive processes and legal outcomes. |
| 2023 | M.Sc. in Psychology University of Washington, USA Master Thesis: Sexual harassment victimization has no age limit, but our perceptions do: The intersection of victim age and prototypes of sexual harassment. |
| 2020 | B.Sc. in kognitiven Wissenschaften & Komparativer Kulturwissenschaften University of California - Berkeley, USA Bachelor Thesis: Race and perceptions of stereotype-inconsistent individuals. |
Scholarships and Awards
December 2025 TU-Nachwuchsring Early Career Research funding, RPTU (€9 711) December 2025 SCOPE Research Funding, RPTU (€2 500) June 2025 Hunt Endowed Summer Fellowship, University of Washington ($9 875) June 2024 Departmental Service Award, University of Washington May 2024 Bolles Dissertation Research Support, University of Washington ($1 250) June 2023 Honors Research Scholar award, University of Washington ($500) May 2023 Travel Award, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues ($500) March 2023 Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, Alternate Status April 2022 U.S. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, Honorable Mention September 2021 Graduate Travel Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology ($500) March 2021 Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, Honorable Mention |