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Christina Meier

Christina Meier

Christina Meier

Education
Personal details
Email:	cm374@exeter.ac.uk
2011-present:	University of Exeter, UK PhD Psychology Currently, I am working towards a PhD on Associative Learning in Executive Control Paradigms.
2010-2011:	University of Exeter, UK MSc Animal Behaviour For my achievements on the programme, I was awarded the Dean's Commendation for Outstanding Academic Performance.
2007-2010:	University of Magdeburg, Germany BSc Psychology The School of Psychology at one of Germany's leading universities in cognitive sciences focusses on giving students a profound understanding of statistical and experimental methods used within the discipline.
Professional/research experience
October 2011 - present:	Animal Cognition (Springer) Editorial Assistant
August 2011 - September 2011:	Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Education and Psychology (Psychological Assessment and Differential and Personality Psychology), Germany Research Intern Principal Duties: Video analysis and data entry; maintenance of data management software.
October 2010 - August 2011:	University of Exeter, UK Research Apprentice Principal Duties: Generating research questions and hypotheses; reviewing literature; designing, preparing and conducting behavioural studies.
April 2010 - July 2010:	University of Magdeburg, Germany Research Assistant Principal Duties: Collecting data for a validation study on the MTSI (Magdeburg Test of Social Intelligence); conducting 6-hour testing sessions; preparing data for quantitative analysis.
October 2009 - March 2010:	University of Magdeburg, Germany Teaching Assistant Test Theory and Test Construction in Psychological Research Principal Duties: Planning and teaching sessions on computer-based data analysis (including Analysis of Variance, Linear and Multiple Regression, Principal Component Analysis, Principal Axis Factor Analysis, Multi-Trait-Multi-Method Analysis), construction of questionnaires, assessment of quality criteria, Classical Test Theory and Item Response Theory. Aimed at second-year and third-year psychology students, the tutorial was delivered in weekly 2- to 3-hour sessions.
July 2009 - September 2009:	Department of Comparative and Developmental Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and Wolfgang Koehler Primate Research Centre, Germany Research Intern Principal Duties: Assisting in experimental studies with great apes; preparing test rooms and arranging test equipment; ensuring the animals' occupation and safety between tests; conducting independent observational studies (voice recording and activity measurements).
March 2009 - July 2009:	Centre for Neuroscientific Innovation and Technology (ZENIT), Germany Research Assistant Principal Duties: Assisting in an EEG study concerning the effects of deliberately suppressing one's thoughts on memory; maintaining correspondence with test subjects, e.g. arranging testing dates or informing about the purpose and the procedure of the study; setting up experiments, e.g. adjusting EEG caps.
CV: Membership of Professional Bodies/Professional Qualifications
2013-present:	German Society for Cognitive Science (Gesellschaft fuer Kognitionswissenschaft eV) Additionally, I was awarded a student travel grant by GK to attend the Cognitive Science Conference 2013.
2012-present:	Association for Psychological Science
2011-present:	Comparative Cognition Society
2010-2011:	Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) Additionally, I was awarded a student travel grant by ASAB to attend the Physical Cognition and Problem-Solving Workshop 2012 in Birmingham.
2010-present:	Psychology Postgraduate Affairs Group (PsyPAG)