Hauptdiplom (equivalent to M.A.), Major: Psychology, Technical University of Berlin

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (research associate), Technical University of Berlin, reseach project funded under the priority 'attitudes and behavior' by the germn National Science Foundation (DFG, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). Principal Investigator: Prof. Arnold Upmeyer

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst); one-year fellowship for the graduate psychology program at the University of Illinois at Chicago

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (research and teaching associate), Technical University of Berlin, Psychology Department, Social Psychology Division

Statistics expert and head of the statistics department at the Sample Institute for Marketing Research, Mölln, Germany

Dr. phil. (Ph.D.), Psychology, Technical University of Berlin (summa cum laude)

Wissenschaftliche Assistentin (assistant professor), University of Bremen, Psychology Department, Methods and Measurement Division

Representative of an interdisciplinary thematic work group on ‚risk perception and information processing‘ in the priority program 'human dimensions of global change' by the German national Science Foundation (DFG, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)

Member of the Executive Committee of the Society for Risk Analysis – Europe; post: Nominating Committee

Akademische Rätin (lecturer), University for Pedagogics Ludwigsburg, Department of Educational Psychology and Sociology, Educational Psychology and Methods Division

Habilitation, Psychology,  University of Bremen (venia legendi: Psychology) 

Temporary assignment as professor for social psychology at the University of Dortmund

Temporary assignment as professor for social psychology and research methods at the University of Freiburg

Temporary assignment as professor for social psychology at the Helmut-Schmidt University / University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg

Temporary assignment as professor for economic and social psychology at the University of Lüneburg, Department of Business Psychology

Professor of psychometrics and research methods at the Department of Psychosocial Science, Faculty of Psychology, University of Bergen

Visiting scholar at the University of Washington (Seattle, USA), Evans School of Public Affairs