Larissa Erchinger (she/her)

LIFE Fellow Since 2025, University of Zurich

I’m a PhD student in Developmental Psychology at the University of Zurich, part of Moritz Daum’s Kleine WeltentdeckerInnen research group. My research focuses on how multilingual environments shape children’s communicative development, specifically examining how diverse experiences influence the development and flexible use of communicative strategies. I grew up in the Black Forest in Germany and completed my Bachelor’s in Psychology at the University of Konstanz, which included a year at Northern Arizona University in the US. I then specialized in Developmental Psychology with a Master’s degree from Maastricht University in the Netherlands.