I am a postdoctoral fellow working with Constantin Rothkopf in the Psychology of Information Processing Lab at TU Darmstadt. In a previous life, I completed a B.Sc. in Physics and an M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering at RWTH Aachen University. I then joined the University of British Columbia in beautiful Vancouver (Canada) to work with Miriam Spering and Dinesh Pai. After some time in the Computer Science department (M.Sc. in 2015), I finally settled on a Ph.D. in Neuroscience and graduated in November 2019. I then moved to Kingston, Ontario, to work with Randy Flanagan (Cognition & Action Lab) and Jason Gallivan (Memory, Action & Perception lab) at the Centre for Neuroscience Studies at Queen's University.

Research interests

I am interested in eye and hand movement control during naturalistic tasks that require quick sensorimotor predictions and decisions. During many goal-directed actions we continuously predict whether, when, and where to interact with visual objects in our environment. In my research, I study eye movements as a continuous readout of ongoing sensorimotor and cognitive processes. I am interested to understand and model the interplay between eye and hand movements at different stages of sensorimotor decisions and how the two systems work in synergy during everyday tasks. In my research, I combine eye and hand movement tracking in different setups to capture naturalistic behaviour and build computational models that can quantify hidden menatl processes.