Summer Seminar 2023
Fellows’ Project Presentations
LIFE fellows will discuss their project with their co-fellows in more depth than is usually possible at the academies. They will discuss burning questions of their projects with LIFE alumni co-chairing the sessions.
The sessions will take place on Thursdays, 10:00 – 11:30 hrs at the MPI in room 125.
April 20, 2023
Warsha Barde, DZNE (advisor: Gerd Kempermann)
“Role of learning in the emergence of individuality”
Co-Chairs: Janne Adolf, Rasmus Bruckner, Sara Zocher
April 27, 2023
Luianta Verra, MPIB (advisor: Nico Schuck)
“Characterising perceptual and value-based mechanisms in aversive generalisation”
Chair: Rasmus Bruckner
May 11, 2023
Urmimala Ghose, HU/DIW (advisors: Denis Gerstorf/David Richter)
“How spousal bereavement shapes life satisfaction: Stability and Change across historical time”
Co-Chairs: Oliver Huxhold, Johanna Drewelies (online)
June 2, 2023 (Friday), 12:00 hrs
Sarah Grünthal, Universität Potsdam (advisor: Martin Brunner)
“How Students' Socioeconomic Background Is Associated With Academic Motivation”
Co-Chairs: Camilla Rjosk, Aleksander Kocaj
June 9, 2023 (Friday), 11:00 hrs
Svenja Hascher, IQB (advisor: Petra Stanat)
“Learning in heterogenous classrooms. What role does instructional quality play?”
Co-Chairs: Ralf Wölfer, Michael Becker
June 15, 2023, 16:00 hrs (Campus Dillenburger)
Muna Aikins, MPIB (advisor: Laurel Raffington)
„Associations of racialized inequities with biological aging and child and adolescent mental health“
Co-Chairs: Ralf Wölfer, Mario Lawes, Alvin Thomas (online)
June 23, 2023, 10:00 hrs
Marlene Hecht, MPIB
“Social Sampling from (Online) Social Networks”
Co-Chairs: Bettina von Helversen
June 29, 2023
Hannes Diemerling, MPIB (advisor: Timo von Oertzen)
„Automatic Evaluation of emotion-related facial expressions and voice in psychotherapy sessions”
Co-Chair: Tim Brick
July 6, 2023
Dilara Zorbek, MPIB (advisor: Bernhard Spitzer)
Task-dependent representations on the abstraction gradient of visual working memory
Co-Chairs: Yee Lee Shing (online), Nico Schuck