2004 to present Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and
Human Factors, full professor for Ergonomics, Technical University of
Dortmund
2000–2004 head of the Junior Research Group „Cognitive psychophysiology“
at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Munich
1997–2000 assistant professor at the University of Tübingen (Clinical
Psychology)
1992–1997 research associate at the Medical University Lübeck (Clinic
for Neurology)
1992 PhD in psychology, University of Graz (Austria) and University of
Munich
1989 Diploma, University of Graz (Austria)
Research interests
information processing in human-machine systems
adaptive interfaces
perception-action integration
visual attention
neurophysiology of cognitive processing
Current research
Head of the central support unit „Elementary perception“. This unit
assists all research groups in the area of cognitive ergonomics by
development of paradigms and cross-functional concepts of perception. It
focuses on the development and validation of methods for testing perceptual
performance.
Teaching
Lecture: General psychology I (winter term 2008/2009)