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Curriculum vitae Prof. Dr. Katja Fiehler

  • Education

    2011 Habilitation in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
    2004 Dr. rer. nat., Faculty of Psychology, University of Leipzig, Germany
    2001 Diploma in Psychology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Technical University Dresden, Germany

  • Academic and professional career

    2016 - present

    Professor of Experimental Psychology, Perception & Action group, Faculty of Psychology and Sports Science, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Gießen, Germany
    2011 - 2016 Heisenberg-Professor of Experimental Psychology, Perception & Action group, Faculty of Psychology and Sports Science, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
    2006 - 2011 Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
    2005 - 2006 Postdoctoral Fellow, Cognitive and Biological Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany

  • Institutional responsibilities

    2018 - present Co-Director of the Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior (CMBB), Philipps-Universität Marburg and Giessen University, Germany
    2017 - present Member of the research council of the Research Campus Central Hessen (FCHM)
    2015 - present Member Faculty Board, Faculty of Psychology and Sports Science, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Gießen, Germany
    2014 - 2017 Member Executive Board DFG Collaborative Research Center 135 ‘Cardinal Mechanisms of Perception’
    2013 - 2022 Chair DFG International Research Training Group 1901 ‘The Brain in Action’
    2012 - present Member Directorate of the Bender Institute of Neuroimaging (BION), Justus Liebig University Giessen, Gießen, Germany
    2012 - present Member of the Ethics committee, Faculty of Psychology and Sports Science, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Gießen, Germany

  • Fellowships, awards and third party funding

    2011 - 2016 Heisenberg-Professorship from the German Research Foundation
    since 2008 Humboldt Fellow from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

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