Melissa Lê-Hoa Võ
* 03/18/1981 in Munich, Germany
Melissa Lê-Hoa Võ
* 03/18/1981 in Munich, Germany
Here you can find the more or less latest pdf version of my CV.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2014 - Professor for Cognitive Psychology
Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Germany
Head of the DFG funded Emmy Noether Group a.k.a.
the “Scene Grammar Lab”, Goethe Universität Frankfurt
2009 - 2013 Post-Doc, DFG (German Research Foundation) &
NIH (National Institute of Health) funded Research Fellowships,
Visual Attention Lab, Harvard Medical School
& Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, USA
2008 - 2009 Post-Doc, ESRC funded Research Fellowship, Visual Cognition Unit,
Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, UK
EDUCATION
2009 Dr. Phil. in Cognitive Psychology (summa cum laude)
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany
“The Allocation of Attention in Scene Perception”
2006 - 2008 Ph.D. student, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich; (Excellencecluster:
Cognition for Technical Systems - CoTeSys, Ph.D. thesis: “The Allocation of
Attention in Scene Perception”)
spring - fall ’06 Backpacking through India, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand,
Fijis rounded up by family visits at the US east and west coast
2006 M.A. (“Diplom”) in Cognitive Psychology
Free University of Berlin, Germany
"Effects of Emotional Valence on Implicit and Explicit
Memory for Words: Can Pupil Dilation Give Clarification?"
2002 B.A. (“Vordiplom”) in Psychology
University of Eichstätt/Ingolstadt, Germany
2000 'Abitur', Gymnasium München/Moosach
FELLOWSHIPS and GRANTS
Emmy Noether Grant from the DFG (German Research Foundation)
7/1/2014-6/30/2017
Research grant from the NIH: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards (NRSA)
12/1/2012-11/31/2015
Fellowship from the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE)
1/1/2013-12/31/2013
Fellowship from the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE)
6/1/2012-8/31/2012
Research grant from the DFG (German Research Foundation)
11/1/2009-10/31/2011
Women in Science Fellowship (Ludwig-Maximilians University Excellence Program)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Current Organization Membership: Association for Psychological Science, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (ordentliches Mitglied), Psychonomic Society (full member), Vision Sciences Society
Ad-hoc reviewer for: Acta Psychologica; Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences;
Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics; Brain Research; Behavior Research Methods, Cognition; Cognitive Neuroscience; 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; Visual Cognition; Vision Research.
Conference Organization (2011-2013) of “Object Perception, Attention, & 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/
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.