Portrait
Since May 2025
Research assistant in the research project “Transitional Spaces of Advancement” at the Sigmund Freud Institute
2017-2025
Research assistant (post-doc with a focus on teaching) in general education at Justus Liebig University Giessen
2016
Doctorate at the Department of Education at the University of Marburg on the topic: “Migration in adolescence. Psychosocial challenges between separation, trauma, and educational advancement in adolescence” (Psychosozial-Verlag)
2007-2017
Research assistant at the Institute for School Pedagogy at Philipps University Marburg
2006-2007
Educational assistant at the Kehna Social Therapy Community
2005-2006:
Teacher of German as a foreign language at the Goethe Institute in Quito, Ecuador
Research interests
- Families in situations of flight and migration
- Trauma processing and grief processes in the context of flight and migration
- Trauma pedagogy in schools and families
- (Intercultural) identity and developmental processes in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood
- Effects of digitalization on child and adolescent development in schools and families
Research projects
Transitional Spaces of Arrival (ÜWA)
Follow-up project to ZA and VTI
Scientific lead: Prof. Dr. Patrick Meurs
Funkton Research Associate
Funded by: Hessisches Ministerium für Soziales und Integration
Duration: 04/23 – 12/25
2018-2019: Giessen Teacher Training Initiative (GOL)
Duration: 2016-2023
Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
2017-2019: Psychosocial counseling for dealing with trauma in schools
Funding: Marburg-Biedenkopf School Authority
EVENTS
March 7, 2025 – Lecture and workshop: “Family dynamics under refugee conditions II. Effects on the development of autonomy and resilience in children and adolescents,” SigmundFreud Institute, Frankfurt am Main
01.02.25 – Lecture and workshop: “Refugee families and intercultural challenges in the country of arrival,” KJP training at the Horst Eberhardt Richter Institute, Giessen
13.06.2024 – Lecture: „Likes, lust, frustration, and addiction: The influence of social media on identity development, communication, and mental health in adolescence,“ Psychiatry Days at the Software Center, Marburg.
September 27, 2024 – Lecture and workshop: “Family dynamics under refugee conditions I. Developmental effects on children and adolescents,” Sigmund Freud Institute, Frankfurt am Main.
February 28, 2024 – Lecture and workshop: “Family dynamics in refugee families,” KJP training at the Horst Eberhardt Richter Institute, Giessen
February 26, 2023 – Lecture and workshop: “Trauma, Loss, and Psychosocial Development in Refugee Families,” KJP training at the Horst Eberhardt Richter Institute, Giessen
February 16, 2023 – Lecture and workshop: “Effects of Excessive Media Use in Childhood and Adolescence,” Lebenshilfe Technical College for Social Services, Marburg
May 20–21, 2022 – Lecture (with Dr. Angela Schmidt-Bernhardt): “Digital distance learning as a contributor to social division,” Conference on Education and Digitalization. Lessons from the pandemic. Offenburg University of Applied Sciences in cooperation with the Society for Education and Knowledge
June 2, 2022 – Lecture: “Media protection and talking about war with primary school children,” interclass parents‘ evening at Katzenelnbogen Primary School in cooperation with child and youth therapist Stephan Hannappel
November 3, 2022 – Lecture: “Digital life and learning as drivers of social division in childhood and adolescence,” TTZ Marburg
February 2, 2022 – Lecture and workshop: (together with Selina Trachte) “The social media dilemma: Likes, lust, frustration, and addiction,” Technical College for Physiotherapy, UKGM Marburg
April 19, 2021 – Lecture: „Digital life and learning as a model for the future? – On power interests, risks, and side effects in childhood and adolescence,“ lecture series of the Center for Conflict Studies ”Conflicts in the Present and Future,“ digital
May 15, 2021 – Workshop: “Media protection and parental work for children of primary school age,” VAKJP annual conference “Ganz Neue Welten. Psychoanalysis and Digital Space,” digital.
November 19, 2021 – Lecture: “Development-oriented media education and parental involvement in primary school,” annual conference of the Commission for Education and Humanistic Psychology (DGFE) on the topic of personality development in the age of digitalization, Heidelberg University of Education and digital
June 26, 2020 – Lecture and workshop: “Trauma, loss, and adolescent development in refugee families,” child and adolescent psychotherapist training, Horst Eberhardt Richter Institute, Giessen.