Research focus on children's intellectual development
Get to know the dedicated scientists who shape our laboratory.
Prof. Dr. Christopher Osterhaus
Junior professor
Christopher Osterhaus heads the Developing Minds Lab. His research focuses on the development of scientific thinking, social cognitive processes and comparative cultural developmental psychology. The aim of his work is to understand fundamental developmental processes and to make findings usable for schools and educational research.
Jana Warnke
Research assistant
Jana Warnke conducts research on the social-cognitive development of children with a focus on perspective taking and social understanding. She is involved in the design and implementation of studies and works on the evaluation and publication of research results.
Raja Lücke
Research assistant
Raja Lücke is a research assistant in the project SCUOLA. Raja works on questions of scientific thinking and cognitive development in childhood. She is particularly interested in the relationship between theory of mind and cultural contexts.
Nina Engel
Research assistant
Nina Engel is a research assistant in the project MINT FiT. In her work, she investigates how children develop scientific and technical skills in everyday family life and what role joint discovery and learning plays in the family.
Lara Kuhnt
PhD student
Lara Kuhnt is doing her doctorate on the question of how dance influences the social-cognitive development of children. In her work, she is investigating the extent to which movement, rhythm and dancing together promote social perception, emotional understanding and cooperation.
Student assistants
Cedric Staas
student assistant
Laura Bor
student assistant
Lilli Göbel
student assistant
Marika Nowak
student assistant
Alexandra Stele
student assistant
Jan Menke
student assistant