Curriculum Vitae
Born 1968 (Texas, USA)
1994 Masters of Arts in Instrumental and Vocal Music (Künstlerische Reifeprüfung),
1998 Masters of Science in Psychology (Dipl.-Psych.), University of Leip- zig (Erich Schöger's lab.), Germany ("Influences of experience on automatic neural mechanisms: Do musicians have superior pre-attentive auditory processing?")
2000 Masters of Science in Sociology (Dipl.-Soz.), University of Leipzig, Germany ("Der soziale Umgang mit Fähigkeit - Die geschlossene Gesellschaft und ihre Freunde")
2000 Ph.D. in Psychology (Dr. rer. nat., summa cum laude), Max Planck Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience (Angela Friederici's lab.) / University of Leipzig, Germany ("Brain and Music: A contribution to the investigation of central auditory processing with a new electrophysiological approach")
2001 - 2002 Postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School (Gottfried Schlaug's Lab.) , Boston, USA
2003 - 2008 Leader of the Max-Planck Independent Junior Research Group "Neurocognition of Music", Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Science, Leipzig Germany
2004 Habilitation in Psychology, University of Leipzig (Faculty of Bio- sciences, Pharmacy, and Psychology), Germany ("Spatial and temporal aspects of processing musical syntax and semantics")
2006 - 2010 RCUK fellowship (senior researcher) at the University of Sussex
Since 2010 Professor for Music Psychology, Cluster of Excellence "Languages of Emotion" & Dept. of Education and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany