My main area of interest is how our emotions and our mood can affect our cognitive abilities, especially in psychopathological disorders such as PTSD and depression. I am particularly interested in the effect that positive and negative mood and high and low arousal have on our memory. My current MSc project is investigating the effects of arousal on participants’ memory for high and low priority items.

I am interested in the effects of emotions on cognition particularly the influence of mood on memory. Any given mood state appears to have an influence on cognitive processing. Mood affects memory, what we think and remember matches our mood state (mood congruity). My research will focus on emotion regulation in adolescence and adulthood as well as how mood states affect memory processes using behavioural, physiological and neuroimaging methods to provide insight into link between emotion, mood and memory in adolescence and adulthood.

I am a PhD student at the Hector Research Institute for Education Science and Psychology at the University of Tübingen. My project will focus on how mental health issues and their implications on motivation and emotion impact our ability to achieve our goals. Some of my interests revolve around self-regulation and self-regulated learning as well as educational psychology.