Education

  • 1997-2002 Studied psychology at TU Braunschweig
  • 2006 Doctorate TU Braunschweig (Topic: Partnership and gynecological cancer: What effects does the disease have on the partnership and which psychosocial interventions are helpful?)
  • 2006 Licensed as a psychological psychotherapist (behavioral therapy).
  • 2011 Acquisition of the additional qualification "Behavioral therapy with children and adolescents"
  • 2012 Acquisition of the certificate "Further training in psychosocial oncology - WPO-PT"
  • 2014 Habilitation at the TU Braunschweig, topic: "A cancer disease affects the whole family - individual, dyadic and familial effects of breast cancer in women and psycho-oncological treatment approaches"; Venia Legendi for Psychology

 

Professional activity

  • 2002-2005 Scholarship holder of the Christoph Dornier Foundation Braunschweig
  • 2005 Graduate psychologist at the private psychiatric clinic Dr. med. Kurt Fontheim, Liebenburg
  • 2006-2008 Research assistant in the Department of Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy and Diagnostics at the Institute of Psychology at TU Braunschweig (Prof. Dr. Nina Heinrichs)
  • 2008-2015 Academic Councillor in the Department of Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy and Diagnostics at the Institute of Psychology at TU Braunschweig (Prof. Dr. Kurt Hahlweg & Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz)
  • 2012/2013 Substitute professorship (W3) Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and Psychotherapy, Bielefeld University
  • Since 01.03.2015 Professorship for Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy with a focus on Transplantation Medicine and Oncology at Hannover Medical School

 

Memberships

  • since 2019 Head of the psycho-oncology curriculum at the MHH in cooperation with the ID Institute Kassel
  • since 2018 Expert at the IMPP - examination area psychological psychotherapy
  • since 2018 Spokesperson of the Board of the German Cancer Society's Psychooncology Working Group
  • since 2016 Member of the scientific advisory board of the BRCA network
  • 2012 - 2016 Member of the spokesperson group "Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy" of the DGPs (secretary)