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

  • Education

    2009 Doctorate in Psychology (supervisors: Prof. Dr. Werner Schneider, Prof. Dr. Heiner Deubel), Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany
    2003-2006 Degree Programme: Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
    2000-2003 Degree Programme: Psychology, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingoldstadt, Germany

  • Academic and Professional Career

    2014-current Professor for Cognitive Psychology, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany
    2014-2017 Independent Research Group Leader (Emmy Noether DFG), Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany
    2009-2014 Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School, USA, Prof. Jeremy Wolfe
    2008-2009 Postdoctoral Fellow, Edinburgh University, UK, Prof. John Henderson

  • Institutional Responsibilities

    2021-current Vice President of the Interdisciplinary Center for Neuroscience Frankfurt, Germany
    2018-2020 Vice Dean, Faculty of Psychology & Sports Sciences, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany
    2015-current Student Counsellor ‘Vertrauensdozentin’ (elected by students), Department of Psychology, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany
    2014-2017 Organizer of Wertheimer Colloquium, Dept. of Psychology, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany

  • Commissions of Trust

    2019-current Member of the Frankfurt Open Science community
    2018-current Member of FOVEA (Females of Vision et al.; http://www.foveavision.org)
    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

    2021 YAVIS Award for outstanding teaching; Dept of Psychology, Goethe-University Frankfurt
    2019 YAVIS Award for outstanding teaching; Dept of Psychology, Goethe-University Frankfurt
    2018 Vision Science Society Young Investigator Award
    2014-2017 Emmy Noether Research Group
    2017 YAVIS Award for outstanding teaching; Dept of Psychology, Goethe-University Frankfurt
    2015 YAVIS Award for outstanding teaching; Dept of Psychology, Goethe-University Frankfurt

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