Kort præsentation

Research groups

I am a psychologist with additional experience in medical biostatistics.

• Center for Psychotherapy Research
• Center for Visual Cognition

Interesseområder

Response time models, Applied psychology, Medical research in surgery, neurosurgery, family practice

Undervisnings- og vejledningsområder

BA Lecture in statistics 1 + 2 (Monday 13-15)
PhD course on methods and ethics (Tuesday 9-16)
For a full list of my lectures, see Aktiviteter.

CV

Born

1.10.1972

Education

• July 2012: Doktorgrad (Habilitation), Experimental Psychology and Psychological Methods, University of Regensburg, Germany
• April 2005: PhD (Dr. rer. nat.), Experimental and Biological Psychology, Philipps-University, Marburg, Germany
• October 1998: Major (Diplom) in Psychology, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, Germany

Current position

Since 2013 Lektor for Quantitative and Experimental Methods, Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Previous positions

• 2010-2013 Biostatistician at the Institute of Medical Biometry and Informatics, University of Heidelberg, Germany
• 2004-2010 Research Associate at the Department of Psychology, University of Regensburg, Germany
• 2000-2004 PhD student at the Department Psychology, Phillips University, Marburg, Germany
• 1999-2000 Research Assistant at the University Hospital Aachen, Germany

 Administrative experience

• Since 2015: Member of the Institutional Review Board at the Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• 2013: Member of the Institutional Review Board at the Medical Faculty, University of Heidelberg, Germany
• 2010–2013: Organization of the Master's Programme Medical Biometry/Biostatistics, University of Heidelberg, Germany

Mulige interessekonflikter

Secondary employment as a programmer for PSYTEST (Herzogenrath, Germany).

Aktuel forskning

“Virker min computer nu?”
“Næ, men hvis den gjorde, ville den være meget hurtigere.”
Dilbert tegneseriestribe (27. juli 2000), se her.

Denne korte ordveksling er en humoristisk illustration af et grundlæggende måleproblem inden for forskning i opmærksomhed, perception og hukommelse. Næsten alle studier inden for disse felter beskæftiger sig med følgende teoretiske spørgsmål: "Hvor lang tid tog det at finde den korrekte løsning?". I disse studier undersøger forskerne imidlertid ofte et andet empirisk mål, nemlig, "Hvor lang tid tog det at finde løsningen – hvis den ellers blev fundet?". Jeg søger at forbinde disse teoretiske og empiriske begreber. Jeg stiler mod at præcisere den metode, hvormed vi måler den tid mentale processer tager, og det bidrager dermed til grundlaget for at studere menneskets tanker og de hjernesygdomme, som er knyttet dertil.