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