Professional Experience

since 11/11

    Research Associate, Audio Communication Group, Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin), Germany   

12/09 - 10/11

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow, CIRMMT, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

04/07 - 11/09

    Freelancer for media and marketing research at “diffferent” Strategy consulting, “nurago - digital research           

    technologies” Online research, “Die Klangboten” Research analyst for audio branding

10/06 - 10/09

    Research Assistant at IMMM Financed by DFG – Research Unit 499: “Acoustic Communication of Affects by Non-

    Human Mammals and Humans: Production, Perception and Neural Processing”

10/04 - 03/05

    Student assistant at “Institute of Journalism and Communication Research” Hannover Research project "Image of

    families in TV programs"

08/04 - 10/04

    Internship “aserto: Kommunikationsanalysen und Beratung“ Communication consulting

01/03 - 03/06

    Student assistant at “Institute of Music Physiology and Musicians’ Medicine” (IMMM) Hannover

03/02 - 04/02

    Internship “Emil-Berliner-Studios Hannover-Langenhagen” Recording studios

09/00 - 07/01

    Alternative civilian service, Bremen

Education

11/09

    Doctor of Philosophy; Title of PhD-thesis: “Investigating Social Effects on Emotional Experience in Music 

    Listening Using Physiological and Web-based Psychological Methods“

10/06 - 11/09

    PhD-Graduate School at Center for Systems Neuroscience Hannover

09/06

    Magister Artium Degree; Title of thesis: “Emotional Experiences During Music Listening: An Online Study of

    Continuous Emotion Measurement Using the Internet”

10/01 - 09/06

    Hanover University of Music and Drama (HMT) Magister Artium program with major Systematic Musicology and

    minors Media and Communication Studies

06/00

    Abitur (German University Entrance Qualification) with majors: Music and Mathematics

08/97 - 06/00

    Landesgymnasium für Musik Wernigerode - Specialized secondary school for music

08/93 - 07/97

    Gymnasium at Zinzendorfschule Tossens - Secondary school

Other things / music

01/04 - 01/09

Rockband  „Van Heugen“

01/03 - 04/06

Neues Vokalensemble Hanover University of Music and Drama

01/02 - 06/06

Junges Vokalensemble Hannover

01/96 - 06/06

Singing lessons major during Magister Artium program; minor piano

08/97 - 07/00

Rundfunk Jugendchor Wernigerode