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Curriculum vitae Prof. Dr. Yee Lee Shing

  • Education

    2004-2008 Doctorate in Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin/Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
    2002-2003 M.A. in Educational Psychology, University of Georgia, USA 
    2000-2002 BSc in Psychology, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA

  • Academic and Professional Career

    2018-current W3 Professor in Developmental Psychology, Principal Investigator of Lifespan Cognitive and Brain Development (LISCO) Lab, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, 
    2015-2017 Lecturer, Division of Psychology, University of Stirling, UK
    2012-2016 Minerva Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    2010-2011 Research Scientist, Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    2008-2009 Postdoctoral Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
    2007-2008 Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    2004-2007 Predoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany

  • Instituional Responsibilities

    2021-current Member of the PhD committee, Ethics committee, and MSc Examination Board, Faculty of Psychology and Sports Science, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
    2019-current Member of the Faculty Board, Faculty of Psychology and Sports Science, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
    2019-current Member of 12 hiring committees of professorship, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
    2018-current Principal Investigator at the Brain Imaging Centre, Goehte University Frankfurt, Germany

  • Commissions of Trust

    2022-current Member of the Scientific Board of DFG CRC/TRR 135 ‘Mechanisms and disturbances in memory consolidation: From synapses to systems’
    2021-current Member of the Scientific Board of the Center for Individual Development and Adaptive Education of Children at Risk (IDeA Center), Frankfurt
    2021-current Member of the Scientific Board of the Cluster project ‘The Adaptive Mind’ funded by the Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and the Arts (HMWK)

  • Fellowships, Awards and Third Party Funding

    2021-2025 Principal investigator, “TAM – The Adaptive Mind” Cluster Project, Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and the Arts (HMWK) , 315689€ (for subproject)
    2018-2023 Principal investigator, Project "Predictive Memory Systems Across the Lifespan,” European Research Council Starting Grant, ~1410000€
    2018-2022 Principal investigator (together with Prof. Dr. Claudia Buss and Prof. Dr. Angela Kaindl, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin), subproject “Ontogenesis of Memory Consolidation: A Longitudinal Perspective,” Collaborative Research Centre (Mechanisms and disturbances in memory consolidation: From synapses to systems), German Research Foundation, ~466000€
    2018-2020 Jacobs Foundation Research Fellow, CHF 165000
    2012 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)
    2009 Otto Hahn Medal for Outstanding Dissertation, Max Planck Society
    2009 Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers
    2004-2007 Doctoral stipend in graduate program of International Max Planck Research School ‘The Life Course: Evolutionary and Ontogenetic Dynamics (LIFE)’
    2002 Ambassador’s Award (Embassy of Malaysia in the United States)

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