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Curriculum vitae Prof. Dr. Dipl.-Psych. Melissa Le-Hoa Võ

  • Education

    2000-2003 Degree Programme: Psychology, KU-Eichstätt, Germany
    2003-2006 Degree Programme: Psychology, FU Berlin, Germany
    2006-2008 Doctorate: supervisors: Prof. Dr. Werner Schneider, Prof. Dr. Heiner Deubel; LMU Munich, Germany

  • Academic and Professional Career

    7/2014–current Professor for Cognitive Psychology (W3)
    2014–2018 Independent Research Group Leader (Emmy Noether DFG), GU
    11/2009–6/2014 Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School, USA, Prof. Jeremy Wolfe
    11/2008–10/2009 Postdoctoral Fellow, Edinburgh University, UK, Prof. John Henderson

  • Institutional Responsibilities

  • Commissions of trust

    2021–current Vice President of the Interdisciplinary Center for Neuroscience Frankfurt (ICNF)
    2018–2020 Vice Dean, Faculty of Psychology & Sports Sciences, GU Frankfurt
    2019–current Member of the Frankfurt Open Science community
    2018–current member FOVEA (Females of Vision et al.; http://www.foveavision.org)
    2015–current Student Counsellor “Vertrauensdozentin” (elected by students), Dept. of Psychology, GU Frankfurt
    2014–2017 Organizer of Wertheimer Colloquium, Dept. of Psychology, GU Frankfurt
    2015–current member of START (www.start-stiftung.de; part of the Hertie Institute) that supports the academic advancement of children who have a migration background
    2014–current Member of SciMento (http://www.scimento.de/en; mentoring program for talented female PhD candidates and postdocs from 5 universities in Hesse)

  • Fellowships, Awards and Third Party Funding

    2019 YAVIS Award for outstanding teaching; Dept of Psychology
    2018 Vision Science Society Young Investigator Award
    2014–2018 Emmy Noether Research Group
    2017 YAVIS Award for outstanding teaching; Dept of Psychology
    2015 YAVIS Award for outstanding teaching; Dept of Psychology

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