Elisabeth is a senior researcher at the individual differences and psychodiagnostics lab at Saarland University. Her main research interests cover studies on causes and consequences of subjective well-being in the light of major life-events and life-chances, as well as the role of interindividual differences in personality (including self-regulation) across the life-span including a behavior genetic perspective. She is also a trained psychodynamic psychotherapist and therefore interested in the development of psychotherapeutic skills including emotion regulation and personality characteristics.

In the RTG, Elisabeth is the principal investigator of project F6.