• Soziologie & Psychologie
• Mental Public Health
• Beratung und Gesprächsführung
• Academic Englisch
• Methoden des Gesundheitsmanagements

• Gesundheitsförderung, Prävention und Rehabilitationswissenschaften
• Gesundheitspsychologie und Verhaltensmedizin
• Einsamkeit und Public Mental Health
• Verhaltensänderung
• Theorien und Modelle

Leitung CamPuls

Applying co-creation to develop behaviour change interventions: Analysing the design, build and evaluation of digital health interventions (CUB, 2024)
LIFE GOALS AND WELL-BEING: THE ROLE OF WORK-FAMILY INTERFERENCE (CUB, 2025)

Since 2024; Full Professor at HAW Hamburg (Hamburg University of Applied Sciences)

Since 2022; Appointment as members of the Ninth Ageing Report Commission of the Federal Government (Berufung als Mitglieder der Neunten Altersberichtskommission der Bundesregierung)

Since 2022; Appointment as BiB Fellow of the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) (Berufung als BiB Fellow des Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung, BiB)

2019-2021; Member of the Scientific Advisory Board to the 3rd Federal Government Report on Participation by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (Wissenschaftlicher Beirat für den Dritten Teilhabebericht der Bundesregierung über die Lebenslagen von Menschen mit Beeinträchtigungen unter Federführung des Bundesministeriums für Arbeit und Soziales, BMAS)

Since 2017; Authorized representative for affairs of severely disabled employees (Beauftragte des Arbeitgebers für Angelegenheiten schwerbehinderter Menschen) and Chair of Occupational Integration Management (Vorsitzende des Betriebliches Eingliederungsmanagement, BEM) at Jacobs University Bremen

Since March 2016; Full Professor of Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine; Constructor University (formerly known as Jacobs University Bremen)

July 2011 – February 2016; Associate Professor of Health Psychology; Jacobs University Bremen; Jacobs Center on Lifelong Learning and Institutional Development

April 2011 – May 2011; Visiting Professor for Educational Psychology; Institut für Psychologie der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

August 2010 – June 2011; Associate Professor (UHD); Universiteit Maastricht; Department of Health Promotion/ School of Public Health and Primary Care; Maastricht University Medical Center (MUMC+)

December 2004 – July 2010; Assistant Professor (C1); Freie Universität Berlin; Department of Psychology; Health Psychology Unit

December 2004 – March 2006; Research Associate; University of Alberta, Canada; Centre for Health Promotion Studies

October 2004 – December 2004; Postdoctoral Fellow; University of Alberta, Canada; Centre for Health Promotion Studies

May 2005 – September 2004; Postdoctoral Research Associate; University of Freiburg; Department of Exercise and Sport Science

October 2000 – September 2004; Junior Scientist and Lecturer; Doctoral Student; Freie Universität Berlin; Department of Psychology; Health Psychology Unit

2010; Habilitation in Psychology on Loneliness (public presentation and defense) and with Thesis: Evidenz- und theoriebasiert Gesundheitsverhalten fördern: Aktuelle Befunde zu Theorien des Ge-sundheitsverhaltens und Perspektiven für die Gesundheitsförderung. (Venia legendi); Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

2004; Dr. phil. in Psychology; Dissertation: Changing Health Behavior: Stage Models and an Intervention for Adopting and Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle. (Summa cum laude); Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

2000; Dipl.-Psych. in Psychology; Thesis: Subjective Theories of Exercise Class Instructors on Dropout, Mo-tivations and Motivation Strategies; Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

1997; Vordiplom in Psychology; Universität Göttingen, Germany