Funding, Fellowships and Awards
Research Grants
| 2020-2023 | Research project "Adaptive learning environments in university teaching: Effects on learning processes and outcomes", funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (with Prof. Dr. Roland Stein and Dr. Klaus Lingel, University of Würzburg) |
| 2020-2022 | Research project "Mobile reading improvement", funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (with Dr. Bettina Müller and Prof. Dr. Birgit Lugrin, University of Würzburg) |
| 2018-2023 | Research project "Metacognition and early dual language learning in social context", funded by the Swiss National Fonds in the Sinergia program (with Prof. Dr. Alexander Grob and Dr. Robin Segerer, University of Basel, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Lenhard, University of Würzburg, Prof. Dr. Tina Hascher, University of Bern, und Prof. Dr. Katrin Skoruppa, University of Neuchatel) |
2018-2021 | Research project "Development of an online-screening for learning disorders", funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (with Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Lenhard and PD Dr. Peter Marx, University of Würzburg) |
| 2018-2021 | Research project "Development of metacognition and personality in highly gifted "underachievers" and "achievers" in secondary school", funded by the Karg Foundation (with Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schneider, PD Dr. Sandra Schmiedeler and Dr. Nicole von der Linden, University of Würzburg) |
| 2018-2021 | Research project "The role of emotional shifts and event-congruent emotions in narrative persuasion", funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) (with Prof. Dr. Markus Appel, University of Würzburg; RI 1100/11-1) |
| 2016-2018 | Research project "Assessment and training of scientific literacy (ASTRALITE)", funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (with Dr. Sebastian Schmid and Prof. Dr. Klaus-Peter Wild, University of Regensburg) |
| 2015-2018 | Research projects "Distributed learning with coherent learning materials" and "Moderators of the effectiveness of desirable learning difficulties: Meta-analytic investigations" in the LOEWE research initiative "Desirable learning difficulties", funded by the state of Hesse (Germany) |
| 2013-2016 | Research project "Cognitive and emotional processes in narrative persuasion", funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) (with Prof Dr. Markus Appel, University of Koblenz-Landau; RI 1100/8-1) |
| 2010-2013 2014-2017 | Research project "Evidence-based reading training in elementary school", funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) with Prof. Dr. M. Ennemoser, University of Education Ludwigsburg) |
2009-2016
| Research project "Process-based assessment of reading and listening comprehension in elementary school", funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) with Prof. Dr. J. Naumann, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main) |
2009-2016 | Research project "Epistemic processing of multiple scientific texts", funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) in the priority program SPP 1409 "Science and the Public" (RI 1100/5-1, RI 1100/5-2, RI 1100/5-3) |
2009-2013 | Research project "Knowledge construction with conflicting texts and pictures", funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) in the priority program SPP 1409 "Science and the Public" (RI 1100/4-1, RI 1100/4-2, with Prof. Dr. W. Schnotz, Universität Koblenz-Landau, and Prof. Dr. H. Horz, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) |
2008-2009
| German-Finnish collaborative research project "The role of evidential markers in on-line sentence comprehension" (with Johanna Kaakinen, PhD, and Prof. Jukka Hyönä, PhD, University of Turku), funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, DAAD) and the Academy of Finland |
| 2005-2007 | Research project "Epistemological evaluations in language and text comprehension", funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) (RI 1100/2-2, with Prof. Dr. N. Groeben) |
Fellowships and Awards
| 2013 | Tom Trabasso Young Investigator Award of the Society for Text and Discourse |
| 2009 | Heisenberg-Fellowship, German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG, RI 1100/6-1) |
| 2005-2007 | Research fellowship for research on "Compositionality and schematicity in experiential theories of language comprehension", German Research Foundation (DFG, RI 1100/3-1 and RI 1100/3-2) |
2002 | Young Scientist Award of the Section Educational Psychology, German Federation of Psychologists (DGPs) |
2001 | Outstanding Student Paper Award of the Society for Text and Discourse |
| 1995-1998 | Scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) |
