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Generally, I am interested in human learning. My research is guided by three major themes:
1) IT Security | I study learning and problem solving processes in IT security. Specifically, I'm interested in challenges and strategies (e.g. reverse engineering) involved in attacks on hardware components.
2) Learning with Media | I study how individuals acquire behaviors or behavioral responses from and with media, both voluntarily (e.g., in educational contexts) and involuntarily (e.g., the link between digital violence and aggressiveness).
3) Meta Science | I study the principles and mechanics of the production of scientific knowledge, including the outcomes of academic peer review, statistical reporting practices, and behavioral measurement and operationalizations.

Professional Career
since 2018 | Junior Professor and Head of the Psychology of Human Technology Interaction lab, Ruhr University Bochum |
2015-2017 | Postdoctoral Researcher at the Educational Psychology Research Group (Prof. Dr. Nikol Rummel), Ruhr University Bochum |
2012-2014 | Research Associate at the Department of Communication (Prof. Dr. Thorsten Quandt), University of Münster |
2011-2012 | Junior Researcher at the Department of Communication Sciences, Media and ICT (Prof. Dr. Lieven de Marez), University of Ghent |
2009-2011 | Student Assistant at the German Institute for International Educational Research, Educational Quality and Evaluation (Prof. Dr. Johannes Naumann), Frankfurt am Main |
2007-2009 | Student Assistant at the Department of Psychology, Social and Media Psychology (Prof. Dr. Gary Bente), University of Cologne |
Memberships
since 2017 | Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) |
since 2012 | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs) |
Editorial Board Membership
since 2017 | Meta-Psychology |
since 2015 | Journal of Media Psychology |
Misc
since 2017 | Speaker of the Media Psychology Divison of the German Psychological Society (DGPs) |
since 2016 | Administrator of www.FlexibleMeasures.com |
since 2013 | Junior members speaker of the Media Psychology Divison of the German Psychological Society (DGPs) |
since 2013 | Co-administrator of www.JournalReviewer.org (with James Ivory, PhD, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) |