I am currently pursuing my PhD in cognitive developmental neuroscience in the research group led by Charlotte Grosse Wiesmann at the Max Planck Insitute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany. I am further training to become a Gestalt therapist and I'm enganged in the non-profit meditation project Zen Lab and practicing Zen since 2019. 

My PhD project focuses on early precursors of Theory of Mind - the ability to infer what other people are thinking - in infancy and their neural foundations based on MRI data. With this, we aim at understanding how shared attention may guide infant’s mental representations and thus serve as a building block for later developing social cognitive abilities. 

On a broader scale,  I am interested in the intersection of psychology, spirituality, art, and science. Some of the questions that drive me are: What influences children's understanding of the world and themselves and how does that shape their later behavior? What are the aspects promoting  a healthy and satisfactory life? In what ways can we express and communicate our inner world? What inspires people to change their perspective in a sustained way? How can research into altered states (experienced for example through meditation, breathwork, and psychedelic substances) inform our understanding of what we are? 

- And how does all of this impact the ways in which we act towards ourselves, within society and our natural environment?