Curriculum Vitae
WORK EXPERIENCE
05/2025 - 02/2028 | Researcher | University of Oslo, Norway
- Refinement and expansion of skills related to data analysis, independent supervision and project management
- Acquisition of new analysis tools
04/2021 - 05/2025 | PhD research fellow | University of Oslo, Norway
- Led end-to-end delivery of a complex interdisciplinary research project, incl. definition of research questions, developing analysis pipelines, conducting statistical analyses of large data sets (n > 50,000), managing timelines across 4 years, communicating findings through technical reports, and publishing in high-impact peer-reviewed outlets
- Independently acquired and applied unfamiliar knowledge beyond original training
- Teaching and course responsible, grading of university exams (Bachelor and Master level)
- Organisation of workshops and courses; workshop assistance; work as committee member
- (Co-) Supervision (Bachelor’s and Master’s theses)
03 – 09/2020 | Psychological statistician | Hospital Schützen Rheinfelden, Switzerland
- Development and execution of statistical solution for the analysis of complex data structures under time constraints with minimal supervision
- Authored plain-language report for non-scientific stakeholders explaining statistical analyses, key findings, and their practical implications
08/2017 – 01/2020 | Administrative academic assistant | University of Basel, Switzerland
- First-line advisory and counselling responsibilities for student enquiries in the Office of the Dean of Studies
- Co-organization of celebratory events
- Maintenance of the institute’s archive
EDUCATION
2021 – 2026 | PhD (Philosophiae Doctor) | University of Oslo, Norway
Behavioural neuroendocrinology, neuroscience, biological psychology
2017 – 2020 | MSc (Master of Science) | University of Basel, Switzerland
Clinical psychology, molecular neuroscience
2014 – 2017 | BSc (Bachelor of Science) | University of Basel, Switzerland
Psychology, social and consumer psychology, sustainability
ADDITIONAL TRAINING
Science communication and scientific illustrations (The Digital Life Norway Research School and IBA graduate school one-week course, 2022)
Computational psychiatry (Translational Neuromodeling Unit online course, University & ETH Zurich, 2021)
Quantitative methods for biology (edX online course, 2021)
SQL for data science (edX online course, 2020)
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Genetics, psychology, statistical data analysis, problem solving, data visualization, knowledge communication, research project design, maintenance and manipulation of large data sets, teaching and lecturing, supervision, project management, professional (scientific) writing and revision, teamwork, illustrations and design
SOFTWARE SKILLS AND PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
Advanced | Statistical software R (incl. RStudio, Positron), Overleaf and LaTeX, Adobe Illustrator, Microsoft Office, Zotero
Intermediate | Command-line/Bash, Python, GIMP
Basic | SQL, HTML/CSS, SLURM, Jupyter Notebook
OTHER ACTIVITIES
2022 – 2026 | Scientific poster presentation at international conferences in Canada (2026), Italy (2022, 2025), Australia (2025), and South Korea (2024)
2022 – 2026 | International invited talks/presentations at research laboratories and conferences in the United States of America (Harvard University (digital), 2026; Rockefeller University, 2024; University of Virginia, 2024), Germany (University of Heidelberg, 2023), the United Kingdom (University of Cambridge (digital), 2022) and Norway (University of Oslo, 2022)
2023 – to date | Competing amateur triathlete (short, Olympic and middle distance)
2024 – 2025 | Website administration for the Climate Change and Sustainability Committee of the Psychological Institute, University of Oslo, Norway
LANGUAGE SKILLS
German (Mother tongue; Swiss-German dialect in C2)
English (C1)
Norwegian (Bokmål) (B2/C1)
French (B2)
AWARDS
09/2022 | NORMENT Poster Prize Award (runner-up)
PUBLICATIONS
All (scientific) publications and achievements can be found under PUBLICATIONS and my personal Google Scholar.