Career
2020 – now
Professor (full), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute for Information Systems and Marketing
2015 – 2020
Professor (full), University of Geneva, School of Economics and Management
2009 – 2015
Research Scientist, University of Basel, Economic Psychology
2008 – 09
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cognitive Science Program, Indiana University, Bloomington
2007 – 08
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
2004 – 07
Doctoral Student, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin (Defense in 2008)
2004
Diploma (Master) in Psychology, Humboldt University, Berlin
Grants & Awards
2017 Research Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation ‐The Influence of Basic Cognitive Processes on Economic Preferences (331.000 CHF).
2017 Research Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation ‐ Parameter Intercorrelations in Cognitive Models – Prevalence, Causes, and Solutions (215.000 CHF).
2013 Young Researcher Award (Amerbach Preis) awarded by the University of Basel.
2013 Research Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation ‐ Modeling Cognitive Choice Processes in the Health Domain (186.000 CHF).
2011 Outstanding Young Researcher Award (Steven‐Karger Award), awarded from the University of Basel, Faculty of Psychology.
2010 Research Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation ‐ Testing Cognitive Process Models of Consumer Choice (260.000 CHF).
2009 DeFinetti award for the best PhD paper, European Association for Decision Making (EADM).
2007 First runner up in the poster competition, Society for Judgment and Decision Making.
Editorial Work
- Science Advances (Associate Editor, 2018-2020)
- Decision (Associate Editor, 2018-now)
- Brazilian Administrative Review (Action Editor)
- European Marketing Academy (Session Chair, Consumer Behavior)
- Psychology & Marketing (Guest Editor)
Peer Review
- Acta Psychologica
- Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition
- Appetite
- Behavior Research Methods
- Biology Letters
- Brazilian Administrative Review
- British Journal of Nutrition
- CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
- Cognition
- Cognitive Psychology
- Cognitive Science
- Decision
- European Journal of Social Psychology
- European Journal of Marketing
- European Marketing Academy
- Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences
- Food Quality and Preference
- Games for Health Journal
- Human-Computer Interaction
- International Journal of Computer Mathematics
- International Review of Retail, Distribution, and Consumer Research
- Israel Science Foundation
- Journal of Behavioral Economics
- Journal of Behavioral Decision Making
- Journal of Cognitive Psychology
- Journal of Consumer Psychology
- Journal of Consumer Research
- Journal of Dynamic Decision Making
- Journal of Economic Psychology
- Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Journal of Experimental Psychology – Applied
- Journal of Experimental Psychology – General
- Journal of Experimental Psychology – Learning, Memory, and Cognition
- Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
- Journal of Individual Differences
- Journal of Judgment and Decision Making
- Journal of Marketing Research
- Management Information Systems (MIS) Quarterly
- Management Science
- Marketing Letters
- National Science Foundation
- Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
- Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
- Polish National Science Center
- Psychological Science
- Psychology & Marketing
- Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
- Psychological Review
- Public Health Nutrition
- Science Advances
- Social Psychological and Personality Science
- Social Science & Medicine
- Swiss National Science Foundation
- Topics in Cognitive Science
Media Attention
- New York Times
- Financial Times
- Scientific American
- Nautilus
- Science News
- The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Financial Times Deutschland
- Handelsblatt
- Spiegel Online
- Neue Luzerner Zeitung
- Tagesanzeiger
- 20 Minuten
- Uni Nova Wissenschaftsmagazin
- ZDF (German TV station)
- Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
- Pacific Standard
- Bild der Wissenschaft
- Jeweller Magazine
- South China Morning Post
Professional Memberships
- Cognitive Science Society
- Deutscher Hochschulverband
- European Association for Decision Making
- European Marketing Academy
- German Association for Psychology
- Psychonomic Society
- Society for Judgment and Decision Making