I´m member of the department of psychology (developmental psychology) in Cologne.

The latest project I´m involved is “Personal and social identity in context of globalization and national delimitation”. (see here for further information: http://uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/psych/entwicklung/forschung/identitaet/index.html)

My special interest is located in the area of “personal identity”—this includes mental health, for example.

In my own project I’m searching (especially) for paradigms that can be subsumed under “self concept”—e.g. satisfaction with the own body, attention for “self”... These variables, finally, play an important role for mental health.