Institute for Psychology, Department of Developmental Psychology with Educational Psychology

Co-editor of the InMind Blog

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Memberships:

• Member of the German Psychological Society (DGPs) and the sub-sections Developmental Psychology, Educational Psychology, Biological Psychology and General Psychology
• Member of the University of Bremen Open Science Initiative
• Ambassador of the Open Science Framework
• Member of the Faculty Council (Fachbereichsrat) Human and Health Sciences
• Member of the Topical Advisory Board in Psychology
• Mentor on the ARIADNE Mentoring Program

Selected Funding and Awards:

May 2022: Kingston Open Research Initiative Award

July 2021: Grant by the Universitätsbund Erlangen-Nürnberg e.V. to conduct and eye-tracking study on attention in premature infants in social situations

July 2021: Innovation Fond Teaching to implement Virtual Reality in digital teaching

July 2021: Grant from the Emerging Talents Initiative for a research project on "Development of neural and behavioral mechanisms of attention in social interactions", investigating differences between digital and face-to-face interactions

February 2021: CResCID Grant on the topic : "Individual differences affecting dynamic emotion authenticity perception" in collaboration with Dr Mircea Zloteanu and Dr Fatima Maria Felisberti (Kingston University London)

May 2020: DFG grant for the project "Overt and covert attention to emotional faces in realistic social situations"

July 2019: Grant from the Diligentia Foundation in cooperation with PD Dr Alexia Gaudeul and Dr Katharina Gangl on "The effect of ethical feedback on moral behavior among economic actors"

July 2018: Selected as one of the winners of the "Preregistration Challenge" of the Open Science Framework

November 2017: Leibniz Science Campus Seed Fund (in cooperation with Dr Pooresmaeili and Prof Schacht) on the topic "The impacts of emotional content, reward and effort on overt shifts of visual attention"

November 2016: Leibniz Science Campus Seed Fund (in cooperation with Dr Christian Valuch) on "Developing perceptual expectations: An experimental test of predictive coding theory"

May 2014: Cecily De Monchaux Research Prize 2014/2015

Jan. - Oct. 2014: DAAD (German Academix Exchange Service) PhD stipend

April 2013: Cecily De Monchaux Research Prize 2012/2013

Methods:

• Electroencephalography
• Eye-tracking
• Virtual Reality

Projects:

Overt and covert attention to emotional faces in realistic social situations, DFG

Development of neural and behavioral mechanisms of attention in social interactions

Emerging Talents Initiative Individual differences affecting dynamic emotion authenticity perception (Centre for Research in Communities, Identities and Difference (CResCID) Dr Mircea Zloteanu and Dr Fatima Maria Felisberti)