As a cognitive scientist, I am interested in the processes involved in human cognition. Most of my previous research relates to cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, and research methodology. In those domains, I am especially interested in the development and application of cognitive computational models, i.e. computer programs that mimic, predict and explain how our mind interacts with its environment.

I completed my B.Sc. (Psychology) at the University of Potsdam (supervised by Reinhold Kliegl), my M.Sc. (Psychology, Cognition and Brain Science) at the University of Victoria (supervised by Stephen Lindsay and Michael Masson), and my Ph.D. at the University of Potsdam (supervised by Ralf Engbert and Shravan Vasishth).

Currently, I am a postdoc at the University of Potsdam and a guest researcher at the University of Copenhagen. I am involved in a number of research projects investigating eye movements during reading, visual attention in virtual reality, and more generally, computational modelling of cognitive dynamics. I am also PI in the project “Modeling the control of eye movements and sentence processing” in the DFG-funded collaborative research center (CRC) Limits of Variability in Language.

Moreover, I am interested and experienced in open science practices, methodology, statistics, and computer programming. For example, I developed and actively maintain the packages appRiori, designr, hypr, and RStanTVA for the open-source statistics software R. Find out more about my most recent publications (incl. unpublished preprints and software) here.