Experiences
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Aalto University, Finland. (starting Sept 2024)
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Germany. (Nov 2022 – Aug 2024)
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg. (Oct 2021 – Oct 2022)
Doctoral Researcher, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg. (Oct 2017 – Oct 2021)
Master Thesis Researcher, French Institute of Science for Transport (IFSTTAR), Lyon, France. (Sep 2016 – May 2017)
UX Design Intern in Complex System Modelling, Cosmo Tech, Lyon, France. (June – Oct 2016)
Education
PhD in Psychology / Human-Computer Interaction; HCI Research Group; University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (2017 – 2021)
Advisor: Prof. Vincent Koenig
Visiting PhD Student; Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) CUPS, USA (Nov 2019 – Dec 2019)
Visiting PhD Student with Prof. Lorrie Cranor.
Master’s Degree in Social Sciences; specialization in information and communication; ENS de Lyon, France (2015 – 2017)
Bachelor’s Degree in International Management; University FH Krems, Austria (2011 – 2014)
Exchange semester in Paris, France
Industry internship in Toronto, Canada
Additional Training
2022 – Statistical Modeling for Multilevel and Complex Data.
Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis, University of Essex, UK.
2022 – Advanced Survey Data Analysis and Survey Experiments.
Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis, University of Essex, UK.
2021 – Causal Inference and Experiments in the Social Sciences.
Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis, University of Essex, UK.
2019 – Collecting and Analyzing Big Data.
Oslo Summer School in Comparative Social Science Studies, University of Oslo, Norway.
2018 – Usability, Cybercrime and Ethics of Cybersecurity.
SecHuman Summer School, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.
Awards
2023 – Honorable Mention Award at CLIHC 2023 for our paper “The Perceived Influence of E-Shopping Cues on Customers’ Buying Decisions'”
2021 – My PhD Thesis was awarded the Excellent PhD Thesis Award of the Doctoral Program in Psychology at the University of Luxembourg.
2018 – My Master Thesis was awarded the 1st prize of the “Prix du memoire digital” (best Master Thesis in digital field), based on the manuscript and a pitch.
2012 – I was awarded a merit scholarship for excellent academic achievements for my Bachelor’s degree at IMC FH Krems.
Skills and Methods
Qualitative user research: Focus Groups, Interviews, User Testing, Observation, Co-creation methods
Quantitative user research: Experimental Design, Survey Design, Survey Experiments
Statistics software: R and RStudio, SPSS, some STATA
Qualitative analysis software: MAXQDA
Teaching
Autumn trimester 2023 – Software Ergonomics
For Bachelor students in Informatics at UniBw. I independently designed the curriculum, organized and taught this lecture. Taught in German.
SS 2022 – Introduction to Systematic Literature Reviews
Lecture and workshop for PhD Candidates (half-day).
WS 2021/2022, 2020/2021, 2019/2020 – Human-Computer Interaction.
Semester-long introduction to HCI for Bachelor students in Computer Science. Taught together with colleagues, in English.
Mentoring/Student Supervision
I am / have been involved in the supervision of 20+ students (Bachelor to PhD).
Service
I am involved in a number or committees in the field of HCI and human-centered privacy and security, including the following. Additionally, I regularly review papers for venues incl. CHI, TOCHI, Computers in Human Behavior, Journal of Cybersecurity. I received 3 special recognitions for outstanding reviews at CHI so far.
Editorial board member at Interacting with Computers
Associate chair DIS 2024, DIS 2025
Program committee Workshop on Accessible Security and Privacy (WASP 24)
Invited Talks Chair, Mensch und Computer (MuC) 2023
Program Committee at EuroUSEC 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Poster PC at SOUPS 2021, 2022
Program Committee at USEC 2022
Program Committee at STAST 2020
Reviewer at Interact 2019
Student Volunteer at ixDA Lyon 2018
Conference translator at World Information Architecture Day 2016
Languages
German Fluent (native language)
English Fluent (fluent; daily professional use)
French Fluent (fluent; daily professional use)