My work focuses on basic research, and I particularly enjoy working in interdisciplinary contexts. I am trained in the dsiciplines of psychology, philosophy, and education. I use both quantitative (experimental psychology, modeling) and qualitative methods (metaphor research) and also work on questions of history and theory of psychology.

• Experimental psychology
  • visuo-spatial attention
  • modeling of cognitive processes
  • Psychology of explaining/explainability
• Qualitative research
  • metaphors
  • disciplinary cultures
• Theory and history of psychology
• Didactics
  • science didactics, science propaedeutics, college education
  • psychology teaching
  • writing education, writing in psychology, writing across the curriculum
  • discipline-sensitive didactics in higher education

experimental and cognitive psychology

psychology for future teachers

psychology for students of informatics

critical thinking in psychology

I run the Writing Center at the University of Paderborn, which supports students in academic writing (and staf in teaching writing).

In addition, I offer workshops and lectures on higher education didactics. Among them are the following topics:

Dealing with plagiarism - Teaching attitudes toward scholarly writing and reading. 
    Reading scientific texts with students
    Giving feedback on student texts
    Writing in the dsiciplines
    Dealing with peer reviews
    Reflecting and designing teaching with metaphors

All workshops are offered for a wide variety of disciplines (and gladly together for different disciplines) and are designed to be discipline-sensitive.

In the field of transfer, my current focus is on further training for psychology teachers and the development of teaching materials for psychology classes at schools.