Undergraduate and postgraduate education and work experience

Work experience

• Since 2019: Professor of Consulting, School of Social Work, FHNW
• Since 2011: Senior researcher, Department for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Bern
• 2008 – 2011: Research fellow, Developmental Psychiatry, University of Cambridge und Emotion Group of the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
• 2006 – 2008: Assistant and research associate, Department for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy of the University of Berne
• 1995 – 2006: Clinical psychologist, University Psychiatric Services Berne

Education

• 2015: Venia Docendi in Psychology, University of Berne
• 2011: Master of Philosophy in Medical Sciences (Mphil), University of Cambridge, UK
• 2005: PhD in Clinical Psychology, University of Berne
• 2002: Post-graduate studies in psychotherapy with a cognitive behavioural and interpersonal focus (MAS), University of Berne
• 1995: Licentiate in Clinical Psychology and Special Needs Education, University of Fribourg i.Ue

Main focus

• Development of a digital grief support platform for the widowed
• Grief after divorce or being widowed
• Digital self-help to cope with critical life events and foster mental health
• Effects of child abuse in young adults
• Risk behaviour in young adults
• Quantitative research methods and intervention research