After my Bachelor and Masterstudies in Psychology, as well as a PhD on psychosocial stress and epigenetics at the University of Basel, I received a postdoctoral mobility fellowship by the Swiss National Science Foundation to conduct a Postdoc at the Michael Meaney Lab at McGill University in Canada, where I studied different psychobiological aspects of parenting and their relevance for child neurodevelopment. After an insightful baby-career break (studying parenting without being a parent can be hard at times), I started a second postdoc at the Lab of Prof. Jens Pruessner at the University of Konstanz to examine metabolic aspects of early life adversity and its effect on the endocrine and autonomic stress response. In 2019 I returned to Basel to work as a Senior Researcher in the lab of Prof. Christina Stadler at the Child- and Adolescent Research Department of the Psychiatric University Hospitals.

I am a proud generalist and have many research interests, ranging from psychobiology, to psychosocial stress, to parenting and child development. Currently, I am trying to integrate these facets of my past research to investigate how challenges and opportunities that have emerged in the family environment during the past few years impact the parent-child relationship and child socio-emotional development and behaviour. These novel factors include increased digital media use, work-life (im-)balance, lifestyle factors, and last but not least the recent change in routines due to the COVID-19 pandemic. I hope that my research will help identifying families at risk to suffer adverse consequences from these novel challenges and framing interventions for these families.

Find more information on my research here or download my Curriculum Vitae.