• 2012-2015: Ph. D. in Psychology at the Center for Doctoral Studies in Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Mannheim, Germany (supervisor: Benjamin E. Hilbig)
• 2010-2012: M.Sc. Psychology (Social and Cognitive Psychology), University of Mannheim, Germany (supervisors: Benjamin E. Hilbig, Inga Niedtfeld)
• 2007-2010: B.Sc. Psychology, University of Mannheim, Germany (supervisors: Edgar Erdfelder, Dagmar Stahlberg)

• since 02/2022: Research group leader (W2) of the independent research group Personality, Identity, and Crime (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Freiburg, Germany) 
• 2014-2022: Researcher and lecturer at the Cognitive Psychology Lab (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany)
• 2019-2021: Acting assistant professor at the Cognitive Psychology Lab (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany)
• 2018: Postdoctoral fellow at the Amsterdam Cooperation Lab (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
• 2014: Ph.D. student and researcher at the Judgment and Decision Making Lab (University of Mannheim, Germany)

• 2022: Research grant from the European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant) for the project "KNOW-THYSELF: Increasing self-knowledge to promote moral behavior" 
  (funding period: 5 years; ~ 1,500,000 €)
• 2021: Research grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG) for the project "The core tendencies underlying individual differences in prosocial behavior" 
  (funding period: 3 years; ~ 300,000 €)
• 2021: Micro-grant (co-PI) from the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences Research Incentive Scheme, University of Melbourne (7,000 €)
• 2021: Micro-grant from the Research Focus "Media, Democracy and Citizens ", University of Koblenz-Landau (10,000 €)
• 2019: Travel grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to the 18th International Conference on Social Dilemmas in Sedona, Arizona
• 2018: Micro-grant from the German Society for Online Research (DGOF) for the project "Dishonest behavior in online studies: An application of Benford's law" (together with Daniel W. Heck; 550 €)
• 2017: Research fellowship from the German Research Foundation for a half-year stay at the Amsterdam Cooperation Lab, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• 2017: Travel grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to the 17th International Conference on Social Dilemmas in Taormina, Sicily
• 2016: Travel grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to the 2nd World Conference on Personality in Bùzios, Brazil
• 2015: Micro-grant from the Research Focus "Communication, Media and Politics", University of Koblenz-Landau (9,000 €)
• 2012-2015: Ph.D. scholarship from the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences, University of Mannheim
• 2010-2012: Sports scholarship of the University of Mannheim

Leadership

• 2025: Best Research Environment 2024 awarded by the Junge Akademie

Research

• 2024: Charlotte-and-Karl-Bühler-Award of the German Psychological Society (DGPs)
• 2023: William-Stern-Award: Rising Scholar Award of the Personality Psychology and Psychological Assessment (DPPD) chapter of the German Psychological Society (DGPs)
• 2023: APA Editor's Choice selection for the paper "Trait-specificity versus global positivity: A critical test of alternative sources of assumed similarity in personality judgments" published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
• 2021: Open Science Award (Gold) of the Open Science Commission, Department of Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau 
• 2021: Commendation by the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science for the paper "Ten steps toward a better personality science - How quality may be rewarded more in research evaluation" published in Personality Science
• 2021: Rising Star Award by the Association for Psychological Science (APS)
• 2021: Walter G. Klopfer Award for the best empirical paper published in the Journal of Personality Assessment in 2020 (for the paper "The HEXACO–100 across 16 languages: A large-scale test of measurement invariance")
• 2020: Open Science Award (Gold) of the Open Science Commission, Department of Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau
• 2020: Early Achievement Award of the European Association of Personality Psychology (EAPP)
• 2019: Open Science Award (Gold) of the Open Science Commission, Department of Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau
• 2018: Open Science Award (Gold) of the Open Science Commission, Department of Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau
• 2016: Bojanovsky Award for Empirical Models of Social Processes, for the paper "Trust: An integrative review from a person-situation perspective"
• 2011: Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner Award for scientific work in the field of women and gender research (University of Mannheim)
• 2010: Otto-Selz Award for the best Bachelor's thesis in psychology (University of Mannheim)

Teaching

• 2021: Award for outstanding digital teaching for the project seminar "Web-based programming" (academic year 2020/2021)
• 2021: Teaching award for the project seminar "Web-based programming" (academic year 2020/2021)
• 2021: Teaching award for the lab-tutorial & methods course "Personality development & change goals" (academic year 2020/2021) 
• 2019: Teaching award for the lab-tutorial & methods course "Assumed similarity in personality judgments" (academic year 2018/2019) 
• 2018: Teaching award for the seminar "Web-based programming" (academic year 2017/2018)
• 2018: Teaching award for the seminar "Cognitive illusions" (academic year 2017)
• 2016: Teaching award for the lab-tutorial & methods course "Personality judgments: Assumed similarity and meta-perceptions" (academic year 2015/2016)  
• 2015: Teaching award for the lab-tutorial & methods course "Personality judgments at zero acquaintance" (academic year 2014/2015) 

Editor

• since 2026 Editor-in-Chief Current Opinion in Psychology 

• since 2025 Associate Editor Psychological Bulletin 
• since 2023 Associate Editor Judgment and Decision Making
• 2020-2025: Associate Editor European Journal of Personality

• since 2024 Consulting Editor Zeitschrift für Psychologie
• since 2023 Consulting Editor Journal of Behavioral Decision Making
• since 2022 Consulting Editor Psychological Bulletin 
• since 2021 Consulting Editor Personality Science

• 2021-2022: Guest Editor Current Opinion in Psychology for a Special Issue on Prosociality
  
  

Ad-hoc Reviewer

Journals
Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science; American Psychologist; Animal Cognition; Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences; Applied Cognitive Psychology; Asian Journal of Social Psychology; Assessment; Basic and Applied Social Psychology; Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation; Cambridge Elements; Clinical Psychology Review; Cognition; Communications Psychology; Criminology; Current Psychology; Cyberpsychology; Diagnostica; European Journal of Personality; European Journal of Personality Assessment; European Journal of Social Psychology; Evolution & Human Behavior; Experimental Psychology; Frontiers in Psychology; Games; Group Processes & Intergroup Relations; International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health; International Journal of Public Opinion Research; Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics; Journal of Behavioral Decision Making; Journal of Conflict Resolution; Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization; Journal of Economic Psychology; Journal of Empirical Legal Studies; Journal of Experimental Psychology: General; Journal of Experimental Social Psychology; Journal of Individual Differences; Journal of Organizational Behavior; Journal of Personality; Journal of Personality Assessment; Journal of Personality and Social Psychology; Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency; Journal of Research in Personality; Journal of Research on Adolescence; Journal of the Economic Science Association; Journal of Trust Research; Judgment and Decision Making; Nature Communications; Nature Human Behaviour; Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes; Personality and Individual Differences; Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin; Personality and Social Psychology Review; Personality Science; Perspectives on Psychological Science; PLOS ONE; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS); Psychological Bulletin; Psychological Inquiry; Psychological Research; Psychological Science; Psychological Test Adaptation and Development; Psychology, Crime and Law; Review of General Psychology; SAGE Open; Scandinavian Journal of Psychology; Scientific Reports; Sex Roles; Social Psychological and Personality Science; Social Psychology; Social and Personality Psychology Compass; Social Science Research; The Economic Journal; The Journal of Social Psychology; The Social Science Journal; Transactions on Internet Technology; Zeitschrift für Psychologie - Journal of Psychology

Funding Agencies
Czech Science Foundation;  Dutch Research Council; European Research Council (ERC); German Research Foundation (DFG); Israel Science Foundation;  National Science Foundation (NSF); Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)

Conferences
Association for Research in Personality (ARP) Conference; International Conference on Social Dilemmas; Congress of the German Psychological Society; Summer School of Personality Science