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Curriculum vitae Dr. Mareike Grotheer

  • Education

    2015 Doctorate (supervisors: Prof. Dr. Gyula Kovacs and Prof. Dr. Stefan R. Schweinberger), Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
    2010-2012 M. Sc. Neuroscience, University of Regensburg, Germany
    2007-2010 B. Sc. Biology, University of Göttingen, Germany

  • Academic and Professional Career

    2021-current Junior Group Leader, Educational Neuroscience, University of Marburg, Germany
    2019-2020 Postdoc, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
    2016-2020 Postdoc, Psychology Department, Stanford University, Stanford, USA

  • Institutional Responsibilities

  • Commissions of Trust

    2024 Invited talk: ‘Wrap It Up: Experience-dependent and developmental myelin growth in the human brain’ at Frédéric Joliot Institute for Life Sciences, Neurospin, France
    2024 Invited participation: ‘Tract-Anat Retreat‘, Corsica, France
    2024 Invited talk: ‘Small brains and big challenges: A guide to white matter tractometry in infants’ DIPY Workshop, remote
    2023 Educational course: ‘Tractometry: Peering into the White Matter’ at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada
    2022 Invited seminar: 'Small brains and big challenges: A guide to white matter tractometry in infants' at The Center for Information and Neural Networks in Osaka, Japan
    2022 Invited workshop: 'Automated fiber quantification' for the fetal, infant, and toddler neuroimaging group
    2022 Educational course: 'Tractometry: Peering into the White Matter' at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting, Glasgow, Scotland
    2022 One-day intensive course: neuroimaging methods for young researchers in CRC/TRR 135 (with Ben DeHaas)
    2021 Invited lecture: 'Perceptual Neuroimaging in Practice' for PhD students at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
    2018 Invited lecture: 'High-level Vision' for undergraduate students in Psychology at the San Jose State University, USA
    2017-2020 Organized the weekly 'Vision Brunch' seminars at Stanford University, USA
    2014 Organized the Repetition Suppression Summer School in Jena, Germany

  • Fellowships, Awards and Third Party Funding

    2024-2029 ERC Starting Grant, Wrap It Up: Deciphering experience-dependent myelin growth across development
    2023-2024 Research Grant Forschungscampus Mittelhessen, Collaborative project aimed at resolving the where and when of math and reading in the human brain
    2022-2025 Research Grant German Research Foundation, CRC/TRR 135 Project C10 Neural substrates of word and number categorization
    2018 Center for Cognitive and Neurobiological Imaging Innovation Grant
    2017 Center for Cognitive and Neurobiological Imaging Innovation Grant
    2017 Best Poster Award Cortical Feedback Spring School, Jena, Germany
    2016-2018 Research Fellowship German Research Foundation, Fellowship to support 2 years of postdoctoral studies at Stanford University, USA
    2016 Promotionspreis Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
    2015 Pro Chance Travel Grant Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
    2014 Pro Chance Travel Grant Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
    2014 Best Poster Award Repetition Supression Summer School, Jena, Germany
    2010-2012 Scholarship from the Max-Weber-Program of the State of Bavaria, Germany

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