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Appointments and affiliations
I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology of the University of Zurich (UZH, Switzerland), where I conduct research at the intersection of developmental, clinical, and health psychology. I am also associated with the «Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development», «The International Max Planck Research School on the Life Course» (LIFE), and the «z-Proso International Research Network».
I am also affiliated with the «Center for Developmental Epidemiology» at Duke University Medical Center, USA, and hold an adjunct appointment in Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH).
Curriculum vitae
I received my education at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena (Germany), Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier (France), and The Pennsylvania State University, State College (USA). Upon receiving my PhD at Penn State, I was a «National Institute of Child Health and Human Development» (NICHD) post-doctoral fellow at the «Carolina Consortium on Human Development» at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Center for Developmental Epidemiology, Duke University Medical Center.
From 2008 to 2011, I was Assistant Professor of Psychology at UNC-Greensboro, working at the intersection of Developmental and Clinical Psychology. From 2012 to 2016, I was Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience in the UNC-Chapel Hill Developmental Psychology program.
Research focus
- Intersection of mental and physical health in the early life course
- Development of depression and anxiety from childhood to young adulthood
- Integrating models of psychosocial (e.g., family dysfunction) and biological risk (e.g., inflammation)
- Sex differences in development
Publications
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Publications
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Self-rated physical attractiveness and its relation to psychological well-being across adolescence. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 19(4):528-546.
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Adult Psychiatric, Substance, and Functional Outcomes of Different Definitions of Early Cannabis Use. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 61(4):533-543.
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Emotional distress in young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence of risk and resilience from a longitudinal cohort study. Psychological Medicine, 52(5):824-833.
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Cohort Profile: The Zurich Project on the Social Development from Childhood to Adulthood (z-proso). Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, 8(1):151-171.
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Pathways from maternal depressive symptoms to children’s academic performance in adolescence: A 13‐year prospective‐longitudinal study. Child Development, 93(2):388-404.
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Polysubstance Use in Early Adulthood: Patterns and Developmental Precursors in an Urban Cohort. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 15:797473.
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High Prevalence and Early Onsets: Legal and Illegal Substance Use in an Urban Cohort of Young Adults in Switzerland. European Addiction Research, 28(3):186-198.
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Health-related quality of life in children with and without physical–mental multimorbidity. Quality of Life Research, 30(12):3449-3461.
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Frequent teenage cannabis use: Prevalence across adolescence and associations with young adult psychopathology and functional well-being in an urban cohort. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 228:109063.
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Self‐Injury and Domestic Violence in Young Adults During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: Trajectories, Precursors, and Correlates. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 31(3):560-575.
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Childhood Gun Access, Adult Suicidality, and Crime. Pediatrics, 148(2):e2020042291.
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Emerging self-regulatory skills in childhood predict cardiometabolic risk in adolescence. Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology, 7:100070.
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Psychiatry and Deaths of Despair. JAMA Psychiatry, 78(7):695-696.
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The association of polyvictimization with violent ideations in late adolescence and early adulthood: A longitudinal study. Aggressive Behavior, 47(4):472-482.
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Developmental Associations Between Sympathy and Mutual Disclosure in Friendships From Mid‐Adolescence to Early Adulthood. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 31(2):368-383.
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Self-injury from early adolescence to early adulthood: age-related course, recurrence, and services use in males and females from the community. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 30(6):937-951.
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Attitudes Toward COVID-19 Vaccination Among Young Adults in Zurich, Switzerland, September 2020. International Journal of Public Health, 66:643486.
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Associations of childhood and adolescent depression with adult psychiatric and functional outcomes. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 60(5):604-611.
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Prevalence and Childhood Precursors of Opioid Use in the Early Decades of Life. JAMA Pediatrics, 175(3):276-285.
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Heart Rate Dynamics During Acute Recovery From Maximal Aerobic Exercise in Young Adults. Frontiers in Physiology, 12:627320.