Curriculum Vitae
Academic positions
Feb 2026 – present
Junior Research Group Leader: Assessment and Development of Talent in Childhood
Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology, University of Tübingen · Tübingen, Germany
Jan 2025
Short-listed (2nd place), Assistant Professorship (W1) for the Promotion of Gifted Students in STEM
University of Tübingen · Tübingen, Germany
Committee chair: Prof. Dr. Taiga Brahm
Sep 2023 – present
Postdoctoral Researcher
Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology, University of Tübingen · Tübingen, Germany
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Trautwein
Nov 2022 – Feb 2023
Lecturer (substitute lectureship, Professorship of Personality Psychology)
Aalen University · Aalen, Germany
Nov 2021 – Feb 2022
Lecturer (substitute lectureship, Professorship of Personality Psychology)
Aalen University · Aalen, Germany
Aug 2019 – Aug 2023
Researcher (Doctoral Candidate)
Department of Individual Differences and Psychological Assessment, Ulm University · Ulm, Germany
Prof. Dr. Oliver Wilhelm
Oct 2016 – Jul 2019
Student Assistant
Department of Individual Differences and Psychological Assessment, Ulm University · Ulm, Germany
Prof. Dr. Oliver Wilhelm
Consulting and practice
Feb 2025 – present
Lecturer, Certificate Study Program in Gifted Education and Potential Development
University of Tübingen · Tübingen, Germany
Nov 2023 – Feb 2024
Scientific Advisor
g.a.s.t. e.V. (Gesellschaft für akademische Studienvorbereitung und Testentwicklung)
Developing reasoning items for international college admission tests (digital TestAS)
Sep 2022 – present
Diagnostician
Nov 2022 – Dec 2022
Scientific Advisor
Bertelsmann Stiftung
Study on “Self-assessment of typical cognitive behavior” within the program “Sustainable Social Economy”
Education
Aug 2019 – Jul 2023
Dr. rer. nat., Psychology (summa cum laude)
Ulm University · Ulm, Germany
Thesis: Individual Differences in Knowledge: Examining Test Modes and Putting the Nomological Net Into Perspective. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Oliver Wilhelm. External reviewers: Prof. Dr. Matthias Ziegler, Prof. Dr. Aljoscha Neubauer.
Oct 2020 – ongoing
Baden-Württemberg Certificate for Higher Education Didactics (HDZ)
176 of 200 academic units completed as of June 2026
Oct 2018 – Aug 2019
M.Sc., Psychology (very good, ECTS A)
Ulm University · Ulm, Germany
Thesis: We Hold This Truth to Be Evident: Reasoning Tasks Measure Reasoning Ability. Supervisors: Prof. Oliver Wilhelm and Prof. Ulrich Schroeders.
Oct 2014 – Jul 2018
B.Sc., Psychology (minor: Philosophy, good, ECTS B)
Ulm University · Ulm, Germany
Thesis: Predictive Validity of Elementary Cognitive Tasks. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Oliver Wilhelm and Prof. Dr. Florian Schmitz.
Awards
Sep 2025
Dissertationspreis in der Psychologischen Diagnostik
Fachgruppe Differentielle Psychologie und Psychologische Diagnostik (DPPD), German Psychological Society (DGPs)
Apr 2025
PhD Thesis Award
European Association of Psychological Assessment (EAPA)
Jan 2024
Best PhD Thesis Award 2023
Journal of Intelligence
Award committee chair: Prof. Andrew Conway.
Grants and funding
Jul 2026
Within-Person Variability in Creative Activities Among Primary School Children: An Intensive Longitudinal Study
DFG Research Grant
Role: Principal Investigator. €326,442 (granted).
Jul 2026
Mental Health and Giftedness
LEAD Graduate School and Research Network, Intramural Funding
Role: Co-PI. Co-applicants: Jessika Golle, Katharina Allgaier. €9,886 (granted).
May 2026
Wissenschaftliche Begleitung zum ULI-Konzept (Unser Lernen Inspiriert)
Diözese Augsburg
Role: Co-PI. Co-applicants: Tim Fütterer, Luise von Keyserlingk, Benjamin Nagengast, Ulrich Trautwein, Nina Udvardi-Lakos. €276,696 (granted).
Jul 2025
StarS: Stark in die Grundschule starten: Selbstregulation und motivational-emotionale Orientierung
Institut zur Qualitätsentwicklung im Bildungswesen (IQB)
Role: Co-PI. Co-applicants: Ulrich Trautwein, Tim Fütterer, Nina Udvardi-Lakos, Janina Eberhart, Emely Hoch. €105,000 (granted).
Aug 2024
PINGUIN: Potenzialidentifikation IN der GrUndschule
Hector Foundation II
Role: Project Lead and Co-PI. Co-applicants: Ulrich Trautwein, Jessika Golle, Marcus Hasselhorn, Patrick Lösche, Oliver Wilhelm, Ulrich Schroeders, Darius Endlich, Johanna Hartung. €783,530 (granted), including €195,882.50 for a doctoral position under my supervision.
May 2022
Travel Grant, Mobility Program (ProTrainU)
Graduate and Professional Training Center Ulm, Ulm University
For attending the APS Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, USA. €2,000.
Apr 2021
Travel Grant, Summer School 2021: Working Memory
Doctoral Program Brain and Behavioral Sciences, University of Bern
CHF 1,000 (cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic).
Mar 2018
PROMOS Scholarship
DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst)
€550.
Research stays
Sep 2022
Visiting Scholar (4 weeks)
Cognitive Neuroscience of Creativity Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University · State College, PA, USA
Prof. Roger Beaty.
Mar 2018 – May 2018
Research Internship
Psychological Institute, Cognitive Psychology Unit, University of Zurich · Zurich, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. Klaus Oberauer. Topic: Is Long-Term Memory Used in a Visuo-Spatial Change-Detection Paradigm?
Invited talks
Sep 2025
Pädagogisch-Psychologische Diagnostik – Grundlagen, Nutzen und Herausforderungen im Kontext der Begabtenförderung
Jahrestagung Förderung besonderer Begabungen, Kultusministerium Niedersachsen · Hanover, Germany
Workshop talk.
Aug 2025
Keeping Up With The Joneses: What Creativity Assessment Can Learn From, and Teach To, Other Domains
The Future of Creativity Assessment Workshop · Hanover, Germany
Keynote talk.
May 2025
Diagnostik und Entwicklung von Begabung im Kindesalter: Perspektiven auf Identifikation, Passung und Förderung
Institute Colloquium, IQB Berlin (Institut für Qualitätsentwicklung im Bildungswesen) · Berlin, Germany
May 2025
Starke Kinder im Blick: Begabungen und Hochbegabungen im Übergang Kita-Grundschule erkennen und fördern
Staatliches Schulamt Backnang · Backnang, Germany
Oct 2023
Assessment of Cognitive Potential in Children: Learning From Research of Individual Differences in Cognitive Abilities
LEAD Research Network, Associational Research Talk · Herrenberg, Germany
Oct 2023
Measuring Cognitive Ability From Young Age: Development and Validation of a New Working Memory Capacity Test Battery
LEAD Research Network · Herrenberg, Germany
Jan 2023
Driving Factors of Individual Differences in Broad Retrieval Abilities
Colloquium of the Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Self-Regulation Laboratory, Heidelberg University · Heidelberg, Germany
Organized by Prof. Dr. Jan Rummel.
Oct 2022
Driving Factors of Individual Differences in Broad Retrieval Abilities
Colloquium of the Hungry Mind Laboratory, University of York · York, England
Organized by Prof. Dr. Sophie von Stumm.
Sep 2022
Driving Factors of Individual Differences in Broad Retrieval Abilities
Colloquium of the Cognitive Psychology Faculty, Pennsylvania State University · State College, PA, USA
Organized by Prof. Roger Beaty.
Mar 2022
Methodische und inhaltliche Abwägungen in der Wissensermittlung
20. Workshop für Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden der DPPD · Jena, Germany
Organized by Dr. André Kretzschmar, Dr. Isabel Thielmann and Prof. Dr. Franz Neyer.
Dec 2019
Exkurs Hochschulzulassung und Eignungsdiagnostik
Vorlesung Persönlichkeitspsychologie, Aalen University · Aalen, Germany
Nov 2019
Eignungsdiagnostik – Validität und Akzeptanz
2. Symposium zu Eignungs- und Auswahlverfahren in den natur- und ingenieurwissenschaftlichen Studiengängen, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology · Karlsruhe, Germany
Media and interviews
Nov 2025
Warum fühlen wir uns weniger schlau als andere?
Facts and Feelings, Deutschlandfunk Nova
Podcast interview.
Nov 2024
Conference presentations
Jun 2026
Foundations of English as a Foreign Language Literacy: Cognitive and Linguistic Contributions to English Reading and Spelling in Young German Learners
EuroSLA 2026 (European Second Language Association) · Lisbon, Portugal
Mar 2026
STEM Talent Selection: Effects of Including Creative Thinking
GEBF 2026 (Gesellschaft für Empirische Bildungsforschung) · Munich, Germany
Mar 2026
Who Makes the Cut? (Relative) Age Effects in Identifying Gifted Students
GEBF 2026 (Gesellschaft für Empirische Bildungsforschung) · Munich, Germany
Mar 2026
Who Makes the Cut? (Relative) Age Effects in Identifying Gifted Students
DACH Nachwuchsakademie 2026 · Leipzig, Germany
Sep 2025
Assessing Convergent Thinking: A Systematic Literature Review
DPPD (Individual Differences and Psychological Assessment) · Kassel, Germany
Sep 2025
Boys and Things – Girls and People? How Gendered Interest Patterns Emerge in Primary School
DPPD (Individual Differences and Psychological Assessment) · Kassel, Germany
Sep 2025
Developing and Evaluating a Novel Working Memory Capacity Battery for Young Children
DPPD (Individual Differences and Psychological Assessment) · Kassel, Germany
Sep 2025
Small Samples, Big Insights: Leveraging Bayesian SEM for Divergent Thinking
FGME (Psychological Research Methods) · Berlin, Germany
Sep 2025
Small Samples, Big Insights: Leveraging Bayesian SEM for Divergent Thinking
DPPD (Individual Differences and Psychological Assessment) · Kassel, Germany
Sep 2025
Smarter Prompts, Smarter Users? Assessing AI Literacy
DPPD (Individual Differences and Psychological Assessment) · Kassel, Germany
Aug 2025
Balancing Cognitive Abilities for Fairer Selection in Gifted Programs: Reducing Socio-Demographic Bias
EARLI 2025 (European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction) · Graz, Austria
Jul 2025
Acts and Facts of Life as a Complement to the Default Approach in Personality Assessment
ISSID (International Society for the Study of Individual Differences) · Florence, Italy
Symposium organized by Prof. Oliver John.
Jan 2025
Integrating the Effects of an Extracurricular STEM Enrichment Program for Primary School Children
GEBF 2025 (Gesellschaft für Empirische Bildungsforschung) · Mannheim, Germany
Sep 2024
Measuring Creative Activities in Gifted Children and Adolescents – A Validation Study of a Newly Developed Self-Report Questionnaire
DGPs (German Psychological Society) · Vienna, Austria
May 2024
Entwicklung eines Tablet-basierten Testinstruments zur Erfassung der Lernausgangslage im Grundschulalter
LERN-Jahrestagung 2024 (Forschungsnetzwerk Bildungspotenziale) · Tübingen, Germany
Apr 2024
Assessing Gifted Students' Creative Activities – A Validation Study of a Newly Developed Self-Report Questionnaire for Kids
SfNC 2024 (Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity) · Toronto, Canada
Apr 2024
How Much Retrieval Ability Is in Originality?
SfNC 2024 (Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity) · Toronto, Canada
Apr 2024
Making Connections: Creativity Supports Learning Through Associative Thinking
SfNC 2024 (Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity) · Toronto, Canada
Mar 2024
Measuring Cognitive Ability From Young Age: Presenting a New Test Battery for Working Memory Capacity
GEBF 2024 (Gesellschaft für Empirische Bildungsforschung) · Potsdam, Germany
Sep 2023
Driving Factors of Individual Differences in Broad Retrieval Abilities
DPPD (Individual Differences and Psychological Assessment) · Salzburg, Austria
Symposium organized by Benjamin Goecke and Selina Weiss.
Sep 2023
Is Creative Fluency and Originality More Than Retrieval Fluency?
DPPD (Individual Differences and Psychological Assessment) · Salzburg, Austria
Symposium organized by Benjamin Goecke and Selina Weiss.
Sep 2023
Testing Cognitive Ability From Childhood to Old Age: Development and Validation of a New Working Memory Capacity Test Battery
DPPD (Individual Differences and Psychological Assessment) · Salzburg, Austria
Jun 2023
Development and Validation of a New Working Memory Capacity Test Battery
Working Memory Symposium
Sep 2022
Complementary Indicators of Overclaiming and Their Validity
DGPs (German Psychological Society) · Hildesheim, Germany
Sep 2022
Fake It Until You Are Caught: Can Supernormality Scales or Social Desirability Scales Detect Faking?
DGPs (German Psychological Society) · Hildesheim, Germany
Sep 2022
Response Formats Do Not Alter What Fact Knowledge Tests Measure
DGPs (German Psychological Society) · Hildesheim, Germany
Symposium organized by Benjamin Goecke and Luc Watrin.
Jul 2022
Response Formats Do Not Alter What Fact Knowledge Tests Measure
ECP (European Conference of Personality) · Madrid, Spain
May 2022
Response Formats Do Not Alter What Fact Knowledge Tests Measure
APS (Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention) · Chicago, IL, USA
Symposium organized by Selina Weiss.
Sep 2021
A Primer on Developing Figural Sequences
DPPD (Individual Differences and Psychological Assessment) · Ulm, Germany
Symposium organized by Benjamin Goecke and Oliver Wilhelm.
Sep 2021
The Development of Latin Square Tasks: More Science Than Art?
DPPD (Individual Differences and Psychological Assessment) · Ulm, Germany
Symposium organized by Benjamin Goecke and Oliver Wilhelm.
Jun 2020
Disentangling Speed from Binding in Working Memory
Virtual Working Memory Symposium
Organized by Edward Ester (Florida Atlantic University) and Jarrod Lewis-Peacock (University of Texas at Austin).
Mar 2020
Is Long-Term Memory Used in a Visuo-Spatial Change-Detection Paradigm?
TeaP (Conference of Experimental Psychologists) · Jena, Germany
Poster session.
Sep 2019
Creativity, Domain-Specific Knowledge, and Overclaiming: What We Can Think of, What We Know, and What We Think We Know
DPPD (Individual Differences and Psychological Assessment) · Dresden, Germany
Paper session.
Sep 2019
How Should We Measure Reasoning in College Admission?
DPPD (Individual Differences and Psychological Assessment) · Dresden, Germany
Symposium organized by Dr. Nicolas Becker and Prof. Dr. Birgit Spinath.
Jul 2019
Are Some Reasoning Tasks More Equal Than Others?
ISSID (International Society for the Study of Individual Differences) · Florence, Italy
Symposium organized by Dr. Florian Schmitz.
Jul 2019
Creativity, Domain-Specific Knowledge, and Overclaiming: What We Can Think of, What We Know, and What We Think We Know
ISSID (International Society for the Study of Individual Differences) · Florence, Italy
Symposium organized by Diana Steger and Benjamin Goecke.
May 2019
How to Develop a Fair College Admission Test for Foreign University Students in Germany – A Tutorial
WCUR (World Congress on Undergraduate Research) · Oldenburg, Germany
Sep 2018
Elementare kognitive Aufgaben als ein Prädiktor für das allgemeine kognitive Funktionsniveau
DGPs (German Psychological Society) · Frankfurt, Germany
Symposium organized by Dr. Florian Schmitz.
Jul 2018
Elementary Cognitive Tasks as a Predictor of General Cognitive Ability
ECP (European Conference of Personality) · Zadar, Croatia
Symposium organized by Dr. Florian Schmitz.
Sep 2017
Measuring Facial Asymmetry Using Geometric Morphometrics
DPPD (Individual Differences and Psychological Assessment) · Munich, Germany
Paper session.
Sep 2017
Warum sind elementare kognitive Aufgaben prädiktiv?
DPPD (Individual Differences and Psychological Assessment) · Munich, Germany
Poster session.
Teaching
Winter 2025/26
Seminar on Writing Psychological Reports
University of Tübingen
Winter 2025/26
Seminar on Psychological Assessment, Certificate Study Program in Gifted Education and Potential Development
University of Tübingen
Winter 2024/25
Lecture on Educational and Psychological Assessment
University of Tübingen
Winter 2024/25
Seminar on Writing Psychological Reports
University of Tübingen
Winter 2024/25
Seminar on Psychological Assessment, Certificate Study Program in Gifted Education and Potential Development
University of Tübingen
Summer 2024
Seminar on Quantitative Data Analysis
University of Tübingen
Winter 2023/24
Seminar on Writing Psychological Reports
University of Tübingen
Winter 2022/23
Lecture on Personality Psychology
Aalen University
Including examination permission.
Summer 2022
Practical Seminar in Psychological Assessment: Preparing and Analyzing Intelligence Data with Confirmatory Factor Analysis
Ulm University
Summer 2022
Practical Seminar in Psychological Assessment: Conversation Management and Behavioral Observation
Ulm University
Winter 2021/22
Lecture on Personality Psychology
Aalen University
Including examination permission.
Winter 2021/22
Practical Seminar in Psychological Assessment: Post-Qualification in Conversation Management and Behavioral Observation
Ulm University
Summer 2021
Practical Seminar in Psychological Assessment: Preparing and Analyzing Intelligence Data
Ulm University
Summer 2020
Practical Seminar in Psychological Assessment: Reliability
Ulm University
Winter 2019/20
Experimental Seminar: Competing Operationalisations of Emotional Working Memory
Ulm University
Summer 2017
Tutor for Test Theory and Design of Experiments
Department of Psychological Methods, Ulm University
Supervisor: Dr. Tatjana Stadnitski.
Summer 2016
Tutor for Test Theory and Design of Experiments
Department of Psychological Methods, Ulm University
Supervisor: Dr. Tatjana Stadnitski.
Supervision
Doctoral
1 doctoral thesis supervised
University of Tübingen
Ongoing. As a member of the LEAD Graduate School and Research Network I also act as daily supervisor for further doctoral researchers.
Master's
7 Master's theses supervised
University of Tübingen and Ulm University
Topics include coping strategies of primary-school leadership, interests and socio-demographic disparities in primary school children, giftedness and perfectionism, diagnostics of learning prerequisites, semantic networks of retrieval fluency, and meta-analysis of fluid intelligence and working memory capacity. Two ongoing.
Bachelor's
15 Bachelor's theses supervised
University of Tübingen and Ulm University
Topics include working memory capacity, crystallized intelligence and socio-economic status in childhood, mental speed and school grades, creative activities in primary school children, retrieval ability, and the measurement of overclaiming. One ongoing.
Certificate
4 theses in the Certificate Study Program in Gifted Education and Potential Development
University of Tübingen
Topics include school concepts for gifted education, nomination procedures for gifted children, and enrichment provision.
Editorial responsibilities
2025 – ongoing
Consulting Editor
European Journal of Personality
2025
Guest Editor, Special Issue: Unpacking the PISA 2022 Creative Thinking Assessment
Thinking Skills and Creativity
With Selina Weiss and Baptiste Barbot.
Ad-hoc reviewing
Reviewer for 15 journals and conferences
Intelligence · Journal of Memory and Language · Educational Psychology Review · Creativity Research Journal · Journal of Creative Behavior · Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts · Thinking Skills and Creativity · Applied Psychology: An International Review · Journal of Individual Differences · Diagnostica · Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology · Zeitschrift für empirische Hochschulforschung · Frontiers in Neuroergonomics · DGPs · GEBF.
Academic service
2025 – ongoing
Advisory Board Member
Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology
2023 – ongoing
Internship Coordinator
Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology
2020 – 2023
Board of Examiners
Institute of Psychology, Ulm University
Memberships
European Association of Psychological Assessment (EAPA)
European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI)
Special Interest Group: Assessment and Evaluation.
German Psychological Society (DGPs)
Division of Differential Psychology, Personality Psychology and Psychological Assessment (DPPD).