

Research interests
- Personnel selection
- Job interviews
- Assessment centers
- Behavior coding
- Personality assessment
- Leadership training and development
- Leadership and employee well-being
- Leadership and gender
Publications
External research funding
Principal investigator in a 4-year research grant for the project “Just show us who you really are”: Strategies for predicting everyday job behavior from job interviews (grant no. 100019_200817) awarded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, CHF 393'715.-
Educational and professional background
since 2020
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Senior researcher and lecturer [Oberassistentin ad personam], Work and Organizational Psychology, University of Zurich (Switzerland) |
since 2021 |
Freelancing as lead assessor in assessment centers and as psychological coach |
2018 - 2020 |
Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer, Work and Organizational Psychology, University of Zurich (Switzerland) Working on the SNSF-funded project: Behaviorally-oriented measurement of personality and transformational leadership in assessment centers and structured interviews (supervised by Dr. Pia Ingold) |
2017 |
Completion of the Teaching Skills Advanced Study Program of the University of Zurich, (Switzerland) |
since 2015 |
Certifications of assessment centers in collaboration with Swiss Assessment and SQS (Switzerland) |
2013 - 2018 |
PhD in Psychology at the University of Zurich (Switzerland) Doctoral researcher and lecturer, Work and Organizational Psychology Working on the SNSF-funded project: Behaviorally-oriented measurement of personality and transformational leadership in assessment centers and structured interviews (supervised by Prof. Dr. Martin Kleinmann) |
2010 - 2013 |
MSc in Psychology at the University of Hamburg (Germany) and the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) |
2011 - 2012 |
Internship at the Institute for Behavioral Therapy Training, Hamburg (Germany) |
2011 |
Internship in the field of personnel and organizational development at Niederholz & Partner, Hamburg (Germany) |
2010 - 2011 |
Working student in ICT Resource Management, Airbus Operations GmbH, Hamburg (Germany) |
2009 - 2010 |
Research assistant at the Department of Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf (Germany) |
2007 - 2010 |
BSc in Psychology at the University of Hamburg (Germany) |
Teaching
- Lecture for MSc students in Psychology: Personnel Psychology (Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022), University of Zurich
- Seminar for CAS students in Business Administration: Leadership (Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022), University of Bern
- Seminar for MSc students in Psychology: Assessing leadership (Fall 2017, Fall 2018), University of Zurich
- Seminar for MSc students in Psychology: Selection and assessment (Fall 2016), University of Zurich
- Seminar for BSc students in Psychology: Work motivation and job satisfaction (Spring 2014, Spring 2015), University of Zurich
- Co-Supervision of three PhD students (since Spring 2019), University of Zurich
- Supervision of multiple Master's level students (since Spring 2014), University of Zurich
- Supervision of multiple Bachelor's level students (since Spring 2014), University of Zurich
Further activities
Practice:
- Member of the organizational board at Swiss Assessment
- Leadership trainings & assessments
- Career coaching
- Assessment center trainings for job applicants
Research:
- Ad hoc reviewer (Human Management Resource Review, International Journal of Selection and Assessment, Current Psychology, Personnel Assessment and Decisions)
- Member of scientific societies (SIOP, EAWOP, ENESER, DGPs)
- Member of the peer mentopring group Methods and Statistsics at the University of Zurich
Institutional tasks:
- Elected representative of the academic mid-level staff at the decision-making body of the Department of Psychology at the University of Zurich