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Birgit Silberhorn

Research Coordinator

Harding Center for Risk Literacy and 
Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition
Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Tel.:
+49 (0)30 824 06 362
Fax: +49 (0)30 824 06 394
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Curriculum Vitae

Birgit Silberhorn has been working as research coordinator at the Harding Center for Risk Literacy since December 2010. She is responsi ble for communicating our research results to the public as well as compiling and presenting understandable, evidence-based information about current topics.
Her own research focuses on factors that facilitate people's acceptance and understanding of risks and uncertainties. The goal is to enable communication of unbiased and comprehensive information, empowering people to make autonomous, informed decisions in various domains of everyday life.


since 2010

Research coordinator at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development / Harding Center for Risk Literacy, Berlin, Germany
2010 Degree in psychology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
2006–2010 Graduate studies in Psychology at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany 
2006 Studied theoretical philosophy at the Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
2003–2005 Undergraduate studies in psychology at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany