Lieselotte Ahnert

Ahnert studied psychology at Humboldt-University of Berlin and Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena/Germany where she received her Ph.D.s in 1982 and 2000. She chaired a research group on Early Sociali­zation at the Institute for Child and Adolescent Health (IHKJ) in East Berlin before the fall of the Berlin wall, and thereafter, founded the Interdiscipli­nary Center for Applied Research on Socialization (IZAS) in Berlin of which she was the director from 1991-2001. Her research is concerned with interaction and attachment patterns in infancy, as well as child early social and emotional develop­ment in different domains and contexts. She has been affiliated with the Intramural Research Program at the National Institutes of Health (NIH; Washington/Bethesda), and made frequent visits from 1998 to 2002 to the Universities of Maryland and Minnesota. In 2004, she became a full professor of Developmental Psychology at the Applied University of Mag­deburg-Stendal, and in 2006 at University of Cologne in Germany. Since 2008 she has been chairing the department of Developmental Psychology at University of Vienna/Austria.