Nanna is a first year graduate student in Professor Laura Carstensen’s Lab. She received her B.S. in Psychology and Anthropology with a Minor in Applied Statistics from the University of Michigan in 2006. Nanna also had the opportunity to collaborate with researchers from the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition and the Independent Junior Research Group Neurocognition of Decision Making at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in her hometown Berlin, Germany. Among other topics, she is interested in studying the effects of emotional valence on cognition across the lifespan and the possible extension of Future Time Perspective Theory to health care professionals and informal caregivers.
