Academic education

  • 2020 Doctorate in Human Biology at Hannover Medical School (Dr. rer. biol. hum.) Dissertation: Delphi study on the development of diagnostic criteria for pathological buying
  • 2018 Master's degree in Population Medicine and Public Health at Hannover Medical School (M. Sc.) Master's thesis: The relationship between post-traumatic stress disorder and shopping addiction in the population
  • 2015 Bachelor's degree in Management in Healthcare at Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences (B. A.) Bachelor's thesis: Psychiatric care without beds - potential of day clinics and psychiatric institute outpatient clinics using the example of Klinikum Wahrendorff

Professional career

  • Since 2022 research associate at the Medical Center for Mental Health of the University Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Medicine Campus OWL, Ruhr University Bochum, Lübbecke
  • Since 2021 visiting researcher at the Clinical Department of Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical School
  • 2021 - 2022 research associate in the Department of Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy and Diagnostics at the Institute of Psychology at the Technical University of Braunschweig
  • 2021 research associate in the Office of Academic Affairs at Hannover Medical School
  • 2020 - 2021 research associate at the Institute for General Medicine at Hannover Medical School
  • 2017 - 2020 research associate in the Clinical Department of Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy at Hannover Medical School
  • 2015 - 2016 employee in the Department of Quality and Project Management at Dr. M. Wilkening Holding GmbH

Personal third-party funding

  • 2022 German Academic Exchange Service Funding Congress trip: 7th International Conference on Behavioral Addictions, Nottingham, Great Britain
  • 2019 German Academic Exchange Service Funding Congress trip: 6th International Conference on Behavioral Addictions, Yokohama, Japan

Additional qualification

  • 2019 - 2021 German College of Psychosomatic Medicine - Qualification program "Clinical Research" (scholarship)

Collaboration on the S1 guideline "Diagnostics and therapy of internet-related disorders"

  • (Head PD Dr. Hans-Jürgen Rumpf), Working Group Online Shopping Disorder (Head Prof. Dr. Dr. Astrid Müller)