Teaching
Lectures
since 2015
Introduction to Biological Psychology I & II
since 2016
Translational Neuroscience: Biological Psychology
2008–2013
Lecture series “Window to the brain”: “Interaction of the central and the autonomic nervous system”
2010
Lecture series “Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience”: “Experiments with humans – from animal to human research”
2004
Applied Statistics II
2003
Applied Statistics I (tutorial); Sport Psychology (guest sessions)
Seminars and practical courses
since 2023
Project work, MSc Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy
since 2021
Thesis seminar (focus on science communication)
since 2015
Lab rotation: Methods in Neurosciences – Eye-Tracking (Würzburg)
2015–2022
Project work, Experimental Clinical Psychology
2015–2021
Clinical Psychology and Experimental Psychotherapy
2015
Methods of Clinical Neuroscience
2013
Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience
2005–2007
General Psychology: Motivation
2004–2007
General Psychology: Memory
2004–2007
Practical course “Implicit memory and priming”
2003–2007
Practical course “Lie detection”
2003
General Psychology: Learning and Memory
Workshops
2008–2013
Analysis of functional and structural MRI data with SPM (Hamburg-Eppendorf)
2012
Measurement and Analysis of Skin Conductance and Heart Rate Data (Würzburg)
2012
Measurement and Analysis of Autonomic Psychophysiological Data; Eyetracking Data (Hamburg-Eppendorf)
2010
Basic Statistics (Hamburg-Eppendorf)
2009
Measurement and Analysis of Psychophysiological Data (Trieste, Italy)
2006
Measurement and Analysis of Psychophysiological Data (London, UK)
2005
Peripheral Physiology (Mainz)
Psychotherapy and forensic psychology programmes
2020, 2022
Neuroanatomy and neurobiology of mental disorders (Psychologisch-Psychotherapeutisches Institut Potsdam)
2013–2014
Neuroanatomy and fundamentals of brain research; neurobiological foundations of mental disorders (Verhaltenstherapie Falkenried, Hamburg)
2019–2024
MSc Forensic Psychology, Psychologische Hochschule Berlin: Psychophysiological and neuropsychological methods of credibility assessment; Effects of emotion and trauma on memory
Supervision
More than 120 master’s and diploma theses and more than 80 bachelor’s theses in forensic psychology, clinical psychology, cognitive psychology, social neuroscience and perception.
Doctoral theses (primary supervisor), completed
2014
Judith Peth: Emotional Modulation of Memory Encoding and Retrieval in the Concealed Information Test
2015
Johann Sung-Cheul Kim: Attentional and Neural Mechanisms Underlying the Trade-Off Effects of Negative Emotion on Memory
2019
Albert End: Characterization of the Mechanisms of Social Attention
2019
Aleya Flechsenhar: The Ubiquity of Social Attention – a Detailed Investigation of the Underlying Mechanisms
2019
Marius Rubo: Social Attention in the Laboratory, in Real Life and in Virtual Reality
2020
Lara Rösler: Behavioral and Neural Mechanisms of Social Attention
2021
Jonas Großekathöfer: Virtually Valid? On the Importance of Ecological Validity and Virtual Reality for Social Attention Research
2023
Alma-Sophia Merscher: To Fear or not to Fear: Unraveling the (Oculo)motor and Autonomic Components of Defensive States in Humans
2025
Sabrina Gado: Navigating social terrain: what constitutes subjective experience, behavioral dynamics, visual attention, and autonomic responses in social situations?
2026
Menghuan Chen: Neural, autonomic, and behavioral mechanisms of approach-avoidance control in motivational conflict
Doctoral theses (primary supervisor), ongoing
since 2022
Janna Teigeler
since 2023
Ebru Ecem Tavacioglu
since 2023
Francesco Tortora
since 2024
Emily Zoe Burlon
since 2024
Yashas Ramakrishna
since 2025
Ruiting Sun
since 2025
Alina-Gabriela Luca
since 2026
Madita Schindler
Further involvement in doctoral procedures
- Member of the doctoral committee in 53 procedures at the University of Würzburg
- External reviewer of 5 dissertations (national and international)
- Chair of the defense in 19 procedures at the University of Würzburg