Karina Janson is a doctoral researcher at the Central Institute of Mental Health (CIMH) in Mannheim, working within the Clinical Neurophysiology and Child and Adolescent Psychology research group. She holds a bachelor's degree in psychology (B.Sc.) from the University of Mannheim and a master's degree in Cognitive Science (M.Sc.) from the Technical University of Kaiserslautern.
From 2018 to 2022, she worked as a research associate at the CIMH, where she was involved in studies on stepped-care approaches for ADHD treatment across the lifespan and on optimizing prevention and therapeutic strategies for affective dysregulation. Additionally, she has teaching experience in Medical Psychology and Sociology at the Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg (2022-2023).
Her earlier research experience includes a research internship at the Otto-Selz Institute, Mannheim, focusing on clinical psychological diagnostics (2016), and work as a student assistant at the CIMH in child and adolescent psychology (2016-2018).
Since May 2024, she has been working at the Institute of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology (IMPS) in Kiel.