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Prof. Dr. Melissa Lê-Hoa Võ
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: | 1. Gioia Mai-Hoa Baldauf (06/14/2017), 2. Cy Manus Son Baldauf (02/02/2020), 3. Beau Dhi Baldauf (07/30/2022) |
Parental Leave: | 1. PL: 05/2017–07/2018, 2. PL: 01/2020–07/2021, 3. PL: 06/2022–04/2023 |
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 07/2014 | Full Professor for Cognitive Psychology (W3 Allg. Psychologie I) Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Germany |
07/2014-06/2017 | Head of the DFG funded Emmy Noether Group “Scene Grammar Lab”, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Germany |
11/2009-06/2014 | Post-Doctoral Fellow at Jeremy Wolfe’s Visual Attention Lab, Harvard Medical School & BWH, USA |
11/2008-11/2009 | Post-Doctoral Fellow at John Henderson’s Visual Cognition Lab, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom |
RESEARCH FUNDING
Project name | Third party funder | Time period | Funding approval (own contribution) |
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KI-FOR |
DFG | 01.04.2023 -01.03.2027 |
€ 492.020,00 | |||
The Adaptive Mind (TAM) | HMWK (Land Hessen) |
01.04.2021- 31-03.2025 |
€ 315.574,00 | |||
Digi_GAP TP 3 VR-Lernsituationen FB05 Vo 12/2023 |
DLR (i.A. des BMBF) |
01.03.2020- 31.12.2023 |
€ 193.746,00 | |||
HA-Nr. 1015/21-17 EmotDes – Nutzerzentrierte Gestaltungsstrategien und emotive Einflussfaktoren |
HessenAgentur (Land Hessen) |
01.05.2021- 30.04.2022 |
€ 91.381,00 | |||
HA-Nr. 09/19, HOLM-Nr. 2019-01-PA Cognition Design. Nutzerbefragung mittels AR- und VR- Simulation zur Akzeptanzverbesserung |
HessenAgentur (Land Hessen) |
01.11.2019- 30.10.2020 |
€ 115.591,00 | |||
SFB TRR/135/3 Teilprojekt C07: Die Entstehung von Objekt-Kontext- Assoziationen in hierarchisch strukturierten, realistischen Umgebungen |
DFG | 01.01.2022- 31-12.2025 |
€ 555.588,00 | |||
SFB TRR 135/2 Teilprojekt C07: Effekte des szenischen Kontexts auf semantischen Objektkategorisierungen |
DFG | 01.01.2018- 31.12.2021 |
€ 452.254,00 | |||
Emmy-Noether Programm: Wissensstrukturen bei der Wahrnehmung von Szenen – Behaviorale und Neuronale Korrelate Semantischer und Syntaktischer Verarbeitung von Szenen |
DFG | 01.07.2014- 30.06.2017 |
€ 819.429,00 | |||
NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards (NRSA) |
NIH | 01.12.2012- 31.11.2015 |
ca. $ 170.000 | |||
Applied Saliency Measurements in Real-World Search Tasks |
ORISE | 01.01.2013- 31.01.2014 |
ca. $ 26.000 | |||
Literature Review on Adaptation | ORISE | 01.06.2012- 31.08.2012 |
ca. $ 20.000 | |||
PostDoctoral Research Fellowship | DFG | 01.11.2009 - 31.10.2011 |
ca. € 100.000 |
Total amount of awarded third party funding to this date: > € 3.3 mio
AWARDS
2019 | YAVIS Award for outstanding teaching; Dept of Psychology | |
2018 | Vision Science Society Young Investigator Award | |
2017 | YAVIS Award for outstanding teaching; Dept of Psychology | |
2015 | YAVIS Award for outstanding teaching; Dept of Psychology |
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Current Organization Membership: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (full member since
2012), Psychonomic Society (full member since 2012), Association for Psychological Science
(2016-2021), Vision Sciences Society (since 2009)
Editorial Board:
- Action Editor for Visual Cognition (2016-2019)
- Consulting Editor for Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics (since 2015)
- Digital Associate Editor of the Psychonomic Society (2014-2020)
- Review Editor for Frontiers in Perception Science (2013-2014)
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;
Science Advanced; Visual Cognition; Vision Research, …
Conference Organization:
- From 2011-2013 I organized the Object Perception, Attention, and Memory (OPAM) conference. OPAM is an international 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 in major cities of the US. OPAM is intended as a forum primarily for scientists early in their careers, such as graduate students or post docs.
- In 2025, I will be organizing the Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP). The TeaP is a well-known psychological research conference of international junior and senior scientists from different fields of Experimental Psychology (e.g., cognitive, social, developmental, and biological psychology) and neighbouring disciplines. It has been held since 1958 and is typically attended by about 600 to 900 scientists from Germany, Europe, and the USA.
Institutional Responsibilities:
since 2021 | Vice President of the Interdisciplinary Center for Neuroscience Frankfurt (ICNF) |
2018–2020 | Prodekanin, Faculty of Psychology & Sports Sciences, GU Frankfurt |
since 2019 | Member of the Frankfurt Open Science community |
since 2015 | “Vertrauensdozentin”(elected by students), Dept. of Psychology, GU Frankfurt |
2014–2020 | Member of the Ethics Committee; Dept. of Psychology, GU Frankfurt |
2014–2017 | Organizer of the Wertheimer Colloquium , 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 a migration background.
- I am also an active member FOVEA (Females of Vision et al.; http://www.foveavision.org), which aims to promote women in vision research to advance the visibility, impact, and success of women in vision science.