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| academic positions | |
|---|---|
| 2021-now | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, McGovern Institute for Brain Research Postdoctoral Fellow Advisors: Nancy Kanwisher & Joshua Tenenbaum |
| 2016-2021 |
Justus Liebig University Giessen Department of Experimental Psychology Postdoctoral Associate Advisor: Roland Fleming |
| education | |
| 2016 | Ph.D. (Dr.rer.nat.) in Experimental Psychology: 'Material Perception for Action' Justus Liebig University & University of Western Ontario Advisors: Roland Fleming, Karl Gegenfurtner, & Melvyn Goodale |
| 2012 | M.Sc. in Psychology Justus Liebig University Advisors: Karl Gegenfurtner (Predoctoral programm "PreProPsych") & Roland Fleming (Thesis) |
| 2010 |
B.Sc. in Psychology Justus Liebig University |
| awards and fellowships | |
| 2020 | Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, (2 years) from the German Research Foundation |
| 2018 | Young Investigator Award, Fall Vision Meeting of the Optical Society of America (OSA) |
| 2017 | Dissertation Award, 2nd prize in biennial dissertation contest of the General Psychology Sections of the German Psychological Society (DGPs) |
| 2016 | Travel Award for the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS) |
| 2013 | Ph.D. Fellowship (3 years) within the International Research Training Group (IRTG) 1901: The Brain in Action - BrainAct |
| 2013 | Postgraduate Fellowship (2 years) from the Justus-Liebig University (declined) |
| 2011 | Undergraduate Fellowship ("Deutschlandstipendium", 1 year) from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research |
| 2010 |
Accepted for PreProPsych predoctoral research program in visual neuroscience |
| invited talks | |
| upcoming | Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA invited Prof. Elizabeth Spelke |
| jul 2023 | Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, GER invited Prof. Thomas Wallis |
| jul 2023 | Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences, Leipzig, GER invited Prof. Christian Doeller |
| jul 2023 | Justus Liebig University, Gießen, GER invited Prof. Roland Fleming |
| oct 2022 | ‘Building Blocks of World Knowledge’ Workshop, Cambridge, MA, USA invited by Dr. Anna Ivanova |
| apr 2022 | ‘Imagistic Cognition’ Workshop, Salzburg, Austria invited by Prof. Christopher Gauker & Prof. Bence Nanay |
| nov 2021 | MIT, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Cambridge, MA, USA invited by Prof. Joshua Tenenbaum & Prof. Nancy Kanwisher |
| apr 2021 | University of California, Department of Psychology, San Diego, CA, USA (via zoom) invited by Prof. Timothy Brady |
| dec 2020 | Middle East Technical University, METU Sense Lab, Ankara, TUR (via zoom) invited by Prof. Dicle Dövencioğlu |
| nov 2019 | ‘Dynamics in Vision and Touch’ Meeting, Cappadocia, TUR invited by Prof. Huseyin Boyaci |
| oct 2019 | Harvard University, Vision Sciences Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, USA invited by Prof. Talia Konkle |
| oct 2019 | Brown University, Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences Department, Providence, RI, USA invited by Prof. Fulvio Domini, Prof. William Warren & Prof. Thomas Serre |
| oct 2019 | MIT, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Cambridge, MA, USA invited by Prof. Joshua Tenenbaum & Prof. Nancy Kanwisher |
| oct 2019 | Yale University, Psychology Department, New Haven, CT, USA invited by Prof. Ilker Yildirim |
| nov 2018 | University of Washington, Psychology Department, Seattle, WA, USA invited by Prof. Steven Buck |
| lab visits | |
| 2015 | 1 month @ Brain and Mind Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, CA, host: Melvyn A. Goodale |
| 2014 | 3 months @ Brain and Mind Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, CA, host: Melvyn A. Goodale |
| 2011 |
2 months @ Department of Human Movement Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, NL, host: Eli Brenner |
| participation in summer schools | |
| 2021 | Brains, Minds & Machines Summer Course, Woods Hole, MA, USA |
| 2019 | Computational Vision Science Summer School, Freudenstadt, DE |
| 2014 | European Summer School: Visual Neuroscience - from Spikes to Awareness, Rauischholzhausen, DE |
| 2014 | Spring School: Multisensory Perception for Action, Wildbad Kreuth, DE |
| 2013 |
Summer School in Computational Sensory-Motor Neuroscience (CoSMo), Kingston, ON, Canada |