Curriculum Vitae

Interim Professor (W2), Organizational Psychology (Vertretungsprofessur)

• Full professorial teaching load and examination responsibility, winter term 2026/27
• Supervision of theses and doctoral researchers; participation in academic self-governance

Postdoctoral Researcher (Bavarian Equal Opportunities Fellowship, own position)

• PI in international research collaborations
• Grant proposals as lead applicant and co-applicant

Maternity and parental leave

Junior Research Group Leader, Human–AI Interaction Group

• PI of the Human–AI Interaction Group (shared leadership with Prof. Dr. Eva Lermer) in the Volkswagen Foundation project AI and the Society of the Future
• Built and managed a team (selection, hiring, onboarding); supervised and mentored one postdoc, two PhD students, and research assistants
• Reporting and stakeholder management (Volkswagen Foundation; collaborators including MIT and the University of Toronto)
• Institute-level methods advising: study design, power analysis, and reproducible workflows

Postdoctoral Researcher, Human–AI Interaction Group

• Research on human–AI interaction in healthcare; supervision of Master’s and Bachelor’s theses
• Designed and delivered Open Science and reproducible analysis workshops (R, Quarto) for 100+ students and early-career researchers

PhD Candidate and Researcher

• Research on entrepreneurship, thriving at work, and students’ career development
• Taught the undergraduate statistics and research methods sequence (Statistics II, Statistics III, Research Practicum, Academic Skills)

Student Research Assistant

Contributed to Thriving at work: A meta-analysis; lab study administration and participant recruitment.

Student Research Assistant

Contributed to a systematic review of psychological interventions for partners of cancer patients; recruitment, data collection, and conference presentations.

Student Research Assistant

PhD in Psychology

Dissertation: Ready for Change – Adaptation and Development in Dynamic Vocational Contexts. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Barbara Wisse and Prof. Dr. Antje Schmitt.

M.Sc. in Psychology (with distinction)

B.Sc. in Psychology

Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and Stan

Data Science Traineeship

Python, SQL, data visualization, supervised and unsupervised machine learning.

Didactics for Teaching Undergraduate and Graduate Students

Two-week Mplus course: advanced structural equation modelling

Selected for the Zia-ZEIT Fellowship Visible Women in Science

Declined due to the appointment to the interim professorship at TU Dresden.

Bavarian Equal Opportunities Fellowship (own position)

Awarded for twelve months and extended by ten months to September 2026; €61,600 in total.

Erasmus+ scholarship for a research stay at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø

€1,300.

Nominated for the High-Tech Young Talent Award Bavaria

Outstanding Reviewer Award

Catalyst Grant for the development of Open Science material

€2,280.

Principal Investigator, AI and the Society of the Future (Volkswagen Foundation)

Took over the PI role and the scientific direction of the Munich work package from Prof. Dr. Susanne Gaube on her appointment to University College London (total project volume €1.5M; grant acquired by the previous PI).

Development of nine SMART teaching units on Open Science

€18,000.

LMU Munich internal funding

Fund for Equality in Research and Education (2×), LMU Mentoring Programme (2×), and Postdoc Support Fund (2×); €9,300 in total.

Most-cited article in the Journal of Organizational Behavior

Thriving at work: A meta-analysis (Kleine, Rudolph, & Zacher, 2019).

Contributor, DFG Priority Programme proposal SYMBIO: Biosignal-informed Hybrid Intelligence – Balancing Autonomy, Competence, and Performance

Working group member, Center for Leadership and People Management, LMU Munich

Guidelines for academic appointment procedures.

DGPs Working Group Engineering Psychology

Statements for the position paper in the Psychologische Rundschau special issue Perspectives of DGPs Sections on the Topic of Artificial Intelligence.

Catalyst, Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS)

Developing and disseminating open science training material.

Recommender, Peer Community in Registered Reports (PCI RR)

Handling submissions, inviting reviewers, and evaluating Stage 1 and Stage 2 reports.

Co-organizer and tutor, R User Group Groningen

Workshops, statistical tutorials, and peer coding sessions promoting reproducible workflows.

Teaching Committee member, University of Groningen

Teaching and assessment materials for the Research Practicum.