About the Person
Caterina Gawrilow studied psychology at Marburg from 1997 to 2002, working as a research assistant on a project concerning the quality of life of children and adolescents in child and adolescent psychiatry. Then she completed her PhD in Konstanz, focusing on a topic in basic psychological research, which primarily involved applied laboratory studies. Gawrilow investigated how adolescents with ADHD can be supported through motivational instructions in task completion. Her research stays took her to Hamburg and New York. In 2009, she became an Assistant Professor at the DIPF in Frankfurt before taking up the Professorship for School Psychology in Tübingen in 2013. Her research approach is cognitive-psychological, with a focus on experimental and general psychology.