Undergraduate degrees, universities of Trier and Dusseldorf, Germany; PhD, Department of Psychology, Stanford University. Director, Emotion & Emotion Regulation Lab, University of California, Berkeley; Associate Professor of social and personality psychology, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley. Uses measures of emotion experience, behaviour, and physiological responding, and combines laboratory, daily-diary and longitudinal survey methods. Research focuses on emotions and emotion regulation, with an emphasis on their role in resilience, well-being and health.