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Prof. Dr. Melissa Lê-Hoa Võ
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Prof. Dr. Melissa Lê-Hoa VõHead of the Department of General Psychology I Head of the Scene Grammar Lab Goethe University Frankfurt am Main PEG Building Phone: +49 (0)69 / 798-35342 |
Curriculum Vitae
PERSONAL INFORMATION
| Date of Birth: | 03/18/1981 |
| Place of Birth: | Munich, Germany |
| Nationality: | U.S. American |
| Children: | Gioia Mai-Hoa Baldauf (4.5 years), Cy Manus Son Baldauf (2 years) |
| Childcare period: | 01/05/2017 - 14/07/2018, 24/12/2019 - 30/06/2021 |
EDUCATION
| 2009 | Dr. Phil. in Psychology (summa cum laude) Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Germany “The Allocation of Attention in Scene Perception” |
| 2006 | Diplom in Psychology (M.A.) Freie Universität Berlin, Germany "Effects of Emotional Valence on Implicit and Explicit Memory for Words: Can Pupil Dilation Give Clarification?" |
| 2002 | Vordiplom in Psychology (B.A.) Universität of Eichstätt/Ingolstadt, Germany |
| 2000 | Abitur (advanced high-school diploma) Gymnasium München/Moosach |
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
| since 7/2014 |
Full Professor for Cognitive Psychology (W3) Head of the DFG funded Emmy Noether Group |
| 11/2009-6/2014 | Post-Doctoral Fellow at Jeremy Wolfe’s Visual Attention Lab, Harvard Medical School & BWH |
| 11/2008-11/2009 | Post-Doctoral Fellow at John Henderson’s Visual Cognition Lab, University of Edinburgh |
GRANTS & AWARDS
| 2022-2025 about €350.000 |
SFB Collaborative Research Grant „Cardinal Mechanisms of Perception: Prediction, Valuation, Categorization (SFB/TRR 135; 3rd funding period), Subproject C7 |
| 5/2021-4/2026 about €150.000 |
HMWK grant “The Adaptive Mind” |
| 9/2019-10/2020 about €80.000 |
HOLM grant on “Cognition Design” in collaboration with Hochschule für Gestaltung |
| 2021-2024 about €200.000 |
BMBF project on “Digi_Gap - Digitalisierung in der Lehrerbildung” |
| 2018 | Vision Science Society Young Investigator Award |
| 2015, 2017 & 2019 | YAVIS Award for outstanding teaching; Dept of Psychology |
| 2018-2021 about €350.000 |
SFB Collaborative Research Grant „Cardinal Mechanisms of Perception: Prediction, Valuation, Categorization” (SFB/TRR 135; 2nd funding period) |
| 2014-2019 about €900.000 |
Emmy Noether Grant from the DFG (German Research Foundation) |
| 12/1/2012-11/31/2015 about $170.000 |
Grant from the NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards (NRSA) |
| 1/1/2013-1/31/2014 about $26.000 |
Fellowship from the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) |
| 6/1/2012-8/31/2012 about $20.000 |
Fellowship from the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) |
| 11/1/2009-10/31/2011 about €100.000 |
Research Fellowship from the DFG (German Research Foundation) |
| Women in Science Fellowship (Ludwig-Maximilians University Excellence Program) |
Total amount of awarded third party funding to this date: > €2.3 mio
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Current Organization Membership: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (full member since 2012), Psychonomic Society (full member since 2012), Association for Psychological Science, Vision Sciences Society
Editorial Board: Digital Associate Editor of the Psychonomic Society (2014-2020); Review Editor for Frontiers in Perception Science (2013-2014); Consulting Editor for Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics (since 2015); Action Editor for Visual Cognition (2016-2019)
Ad-hoc reviewer for, e.g.: Acta Psychologica; Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences; Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics; Brain Research; Behavior Research Methods; Cognition; Cognitive Neuroscience; CRPI; Emotion; Frontiers in Perception Science; Human-Computer Interaction; International Journal of Psychophysiology; Journal of Experimental Psychology: General; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human, Perception, and Performance; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition; Journal of Eye Movement Research; Journal of Vision; NeuroImage, Neuropsychologia; Neuroscience Letters; Perception; PLoS ONE; Psychonomic Bulletin & Review; Psychophysiology; Psychological Science; Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology; Scientific Reports; Visual Cognition; Vision Research.
Conference Organization (2011-2013) of “Object Perception, Attention, and Memory (OPAM)”. OPAM is a conference dedicated to issues in object perception, attention, memory and other areas of visual cognition. It takes place, each year, on the first day of the meeting of the Psychonomic Society. OPAM is intended as a forum primarily for scientists early in their careers, such as graduate students or post docs. Visit our website for more information: http://www.opam.net/
Institutional Responsibilities:
| 2018 – | Vice Dean, Faculty of Psychology & Sports Sciences, GU Frankfurt |
| 2015 – | Student Counsellor (elected by students), Dept. of Psychology, GU Frankfurt |
| 2015 | Vice Managing Director, Dept. of Psychology, GU Frankfurt |
| 2014 – | Member of the Faculty Committee, Dept. of Psychology, GU Frankfurt |
| 2014 – | Organizer of Wertheimer Colloquium , Dept. of Psychology, GU Frankfurt |
| 2014 – | Member of the Ethics Committee; Dept. of Psychology, GU Frankfurt |
Mentoring Activities: Member of SciMento (http://www.scimento.de/en; mentoring program for talented female PhD candidates and postdocs from 5 universities in Hesse); member of START (www.start-stiftung.de; part of the Hertie Institute) that supports the academic advancement of children who have recently migrated to Germany.
