Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Faculty of Life Sciences - Department of Psychology

Curriculum Vitae
since 04/2010:
Doctoral student at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Fellow of the International Max Planck Research School "The Life Course: Evolutionary and Ontogenetic Dynamics" (LIFE)
2012:
Research Stay, Prof. Toni C. Antonucci, Life Course Development Program, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
2003 - 2009:
Studies of psychology(diploma with distinction), PhilippsUniversityof Marburg
2007 - 2008:
Research assistance and diploma thesis, Prof. Dr. Anke Ehlers,Department of Psychology,Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London
2005 - 2006:
ERASMUS exchange, Universidad Miguel Hernández

Research Interests
Personality and social relationships, personality development, self and identity, intercultural psychology and immigrants, adolescence and young adulthood, longitudinal analyses

Current Research Projects

• Adaptation of immigrant adolescents (Athena Studies of Resilient Adaptation, AStRA)
• Personality development and social relationships from childhood to early adulthood

Memberships
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs; assoziiertes Mitglied)

• Fachgruppe Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie und Psychologische Diagnostik (DPPD)
• Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie (FGSP)

Member of the scientific network “Personality Development in Adulthood: From an integrative Model to new Research Perspectives” supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG; SP 1462/1-1)

Ad Hoc Reviewer
International Journal of Behavioral Development

Publications
Reitz, A. K., Asendorpf, J. B., & Motti-Stefanidi, F. (in revision). Mastering developmental transitions in immigrant adolescents: The longitudinal interplay of family functioning, developmental, and acculturative tasks. Developmental Psychology.