Research interests
applied social psychology, health psychology, environmental psychology: restoration, well-being,health effects of natural environments, attitudes towards wilderness, rewilding and landscape changes, man-nature-relationship, attitude change, quality of life, residential quality,
New: Landscape and health: Effects, potential and strategies. International Conference, 24.-25.1.2012
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Academic Education
1998 – 2000 PhD-Thesis at the University of Technology Berlin,
Germany, Environmental and Technical Psychology Unit: Evaluation of
suburban housing areas; planning of children's environments. 1990 - 1997 University of Technology Berlin: Studies of Psychology and Sociology of Architecture, main subject Social and Environmental Psychology. Diploma Thesis on the assessment of the residential environments by children.
Professional Experience
July 2006 - Research Fellow at WSL, Group Social Sciences in Landscape Research 2003 - 2006 Research Fellow at WSL, Section Landscape and Society. 2000 - 2003 Post-doc assistant at WSL, Section Landscape and Society 1998 - 1999 Research Fellow, Clinic for Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Charité, Humboldt University Berlin.
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