• 2014 Doctorate: Speech perception, age, and hearing loss: Methods to assess the balance between bottom-up and top-down processing.
• 2008 Master of Science Hearing Technology & Audiology : Perception of distortion in hearing aids
• 2004 Diploma Biology : Comodulation masking release in mice

Since 01/2020 Scientific Head of Research Department, Post-Doc, Medical Campus University of Oldenburg, University Hospital for Visceral Surgery

06/2015 - 01/2020 Research Associate, Post-Doc, Medical Campus University of Oldenburg, University Hospital for Visceral Surgery

07/2014 - 05/2015 Research Associate, Post-Doc, Medical Physics Group, Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg

02/2008 - 07/2014 Research Assistant , HörTech gGmbH, Oldenburg & Medical Physics Group, Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg

09/2005 - 10/2007 Research Assistant, Zoophysiology & Behaviour Group, Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg

11/2004 - 12/2005 Documentation assistant & audiologist on duty, Hörzentrum Oldenburg gGmbH, Oldenburg

• Proposal writing (e.g. externally funded project and ethics applications)
• Project supervision and administration (incl. finances)
• Planning, implementation and statistical evaluation of clinical studies and studies in the perioperative setting
• Publication in national and international journals
• Presentations at national and international conferences
• Supervision of students, master and doctoral theses & student assistants
• Planning, implementation and evaluation of audiological, psychoacoustic and cognitive measurements in the context of various (hearing aid) studies with different groups of subjects (children and adults, normal and hearing impaired)
• Development of sentence test material (OLACS; Oldenburg Linguistically & Audiologically Controlled Sentences)
• Acquisition of test persons
• Planning, organisation and implementation of training courses, guided tours in the House of Hearing and of the Summer School in the PhD programme Neurosensory Science and Systems
• Matlab programming: DSP & user interfaces
• Planning, implementation and evaluation of psychoacoustic experiments with animals (mice, gerbils, starlings)
• Animal care