2014:                 Habilitation, Venia legendi in Psychology
Since 2013:        Spokesperson of the Media Psychology division of the German Psychological Society (DGPs)
Since 2010:        Junior Professorship for Cognitive Psychology at the Psychology Department at the University of Tübingen
2009:                 Research assistant at the Psychology Department at the University of Tübingen
Fall/Winter 2008: Visiting scholar at the Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA
2007:                  Leibniz award for young scientists of the Leibniz Association (WGL)
2007:                  Granting of a Doctorate in natural sciences (Dr. rer. nat.)
2004-2010:          Research assistant at the Knowledge Media Research Center, Tübingen, Germany
2003:                  Granting of a Diploma in psychology (Dipl.-Psych.) 1998-2003: Studies of psychology, mathematics, and computer science at the
                           University of Tübingen

2013 - 2016:    Head of the DFG-project "Flexible resource allocation and prediction in attentive tracking" (HU 1510/4-3)
Since 2012:      Head of the project „Verbal influences on the acquisition of hand-manipulative tasks“ funded by the Baden-Württemberg Foundation
                       ("Juniorprofessoren Programm").
Since 2010:      Head of the DFG-project "Viewpoint changes in multiple object tracking" (HU 1510/4-1)
2008-2010:      Scholarship holder in the Elite-program for postdoctoral researchers of the "Landesstiftung Baden-Wuerttemberg".
2006 bis 2008: Participation in the project "Learning in museums" funded by the Leibniz Association (WGL)
2004-2006:      Participation in the DFG-project "Canonical viewpoints of dynamic scenes" (Head: Dr. Bärbel Garsoffky)