1989-1994 Studies of psychology in Mainz and Glasgow
1995-1998 Research assistant at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK
1998 PhD at University of London, UK
1998-2004 Assistant professor at the Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioural Neurobiology, Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen
2001/2002 Research stay at INSERM Unité 280, Lyon, France
2003 Habilitation at Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen
since 2004 Professor of Medical Psychology at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
2000-2005 Research grant (6 years) in DFG research center (Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 550: Erkennen, Lokalisieren, Handeln: Neurokognitive Mechanismen und ihre Flexibilität, Teilprojekt C1)
2001-2002 Grant for research stay at INSERM Lyon, France (DFG KA 1493/1-1)
2004 Heisenberg Stipendium by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG KA 1493/2-1)
2007 Research grant (3 years) by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for the project "fMRT studies on the representation of complex natural sounds in the human brain" together with Dr. C. Altmann (DFG AL 1074/2-1)
2008 Research grant (3 years) by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for the project "Stimulus-specific components in the gamma band and their role for the representation of individual and combined stimulus features" (DFG KA 1493/4-1)
2011 Research grant (3 years) within the 'LOEWE Neuronale Koordination Forschungsschwerpunkt Frankfurt (NeFF)' center grant for the project "Connectional basis of multisensory object perception" together with Dr. M. J. Naumer
2011 Research grant (3 years) by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for the project "Neuronal correlates of focus updating in working memory" together with Dr. C. Bledowski (DFG BL 931/3-1)
2013 Research grant (2 years) by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for the project "Automatized actions in nicotine dependence: neuronal and behavioral correlates and their modulation by abstinence" together with Dr. Yavor Yalachkov and
Dr. M. J. Naumer (DFG YA 335/2-1)
2014 Research grant (1 year) within the 'LOEWE Neuronale Koordination Forschungsschwerpunkt Frankfurt (NeFF)' center grant for the project"Contextual control of visual representations in working memory" together with Dr. C. Bledowski
and Prof. C. Fiebach
2016 Research grant (3 years) by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for the project "Decoding of hemodynamic signals during the processing of spectral and spatial stimulus features in auditory working memory" together with Dr. C. Bledowski
(DFG KA 1493/7-1 und BL 931/4-1)
2021 Research grant (3 years) by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for the project "Neural basis of feature binding in working memory" together with Dr. C. Bledowski (DFG BL 931/5-1 und KA 1493/8-1).
