Education and Degrees
2010 Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D.), Magna cum laude, Faculty of Science, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
2004-2010 PhD student at Department of Neuropsychology, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
2001 Diploma in Health Science, University of Applied Science Magdeburg/Stendal, Germany
Professional Experience
2012 – ongoing senior scientist, Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
2011-2012 post-doctoral fellow at the German Centre of Neurodegenerative diseases (DZNE) Magdeburg, Germany
2005-2008 Visiting student at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, England
2004-2010 Pre-doctoral & post-doctoral research fellow, Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
2001-2004 Research scientist, Department of Organizational Science and Psychology (IAF), Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Prof. W. Quaas, Magdeburg, Germany
Awards
04/2019 EUCAS Presidential Poster Award for “Individual differences in long-term verbal learning and memory in healthy aging”, European Cognitive Ageing Society (https://eucas.org/ac2019/program)
10/2011 Research Award: “Aging and Work”, Marie Luise und Ernst Becker Stiftung, Germany, Research title: “Neurobiological and psychosocial effects of aerobic exercise on motivation of older people: The new concept of the subjective health horizon“
Invited talks
The Berlin Aging Study II – Investigating multidimensional facets of individual differences and their changes in healthy aging, Department of Psychiatry, 31. January 2020, University of Oxford, UK
How future anticipation of an active lifestyle is linked to individuals psychosocial functioning, objective health and health-behavior, 23rd Nordic Congress of Gerontology, 19-22 June 2016, Tampere, Finland
The Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II): Understanding Heterogeneity in Aging, 2016, Kolloquium Karolinska Institute Stockholm, ARC, Stockholm, Sweden
The bright side of Aging – Exploring the effects of genes, lifestyle and their interaction on cognition in the Berlin Aging Study II, Symposium (Sandra Düzel & Simone Kühn), Aging and Cognition 2015, Dortmund, Germany
The ‘Subjective health horizon’ and its association with social, cognitive and physical engagement, Aging and Cognition 2015, Dortmund, Germany
The Subjective Health Horizon Questionnaire (SHH-Q): Assessing Future Time Perspectives for Facets of an Active Lifestyle, DGPPN 2015, Berlin, Germany
Metabolisches Syndrom (MetS) und kognitive Störungen, 2015, Charité, Ärztliche Fortbildung, Berlin, Germany
Der “Subjektive-Gesundheitshorizont” (SHH-Q) und seine Assoziationen zu psychologischen und physiologischen Maßen, EPSY 2015, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
The Subjective Health Horizon Questionnaire (SHH-Q): Assessing Future Time Perspectives for Facets of an Active Lifestyle, GSA 2015, Orlando, US
Teaching Experience & Interests
cognition across the lifespan
cognitive neuroscience of aging
motivation & learning
successful aging
gerontology
health across the lifespan
loneliness and the brain
brain plasticity across the lifespan
organizational psychology
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