Prof. Dr. Angelika Lingnau - Universität Regensburg

Current position | Education | Stipend Awards | Projects

Current position

since 11/'18: Chair (W3-Heisenberg-Professor) of Cognitive Neuroscience University of Regensburg, Germany

Professional Experience

06/'15 - 10/'18: Reader Human Neuroscience (tenured)
Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London, UK
08/'15 - 10/'18: Director Combined Universities Brain Imaging Centre (CUBIC),
Royal Holloway University of London, UK
09/'12 - 05/'15: Assistant Professor (non-tenured), CIMeC, UNITN, Italy
09/'10 - 08/'12: Research Assistant Professor (non-tenured), CIMeC, UNITN, Italy
11/'05 - 08/'10: Postdoc, CIMeC, UNITN, Italy
01/'05 - 10/'05: Postdoc, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London, UK

Education

12/2004: Graduation (Dr. rer. nat.) Thesis title Seeing without a fovea? Eye movements in reading and visual search with an artificial central scotoma, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany (supervisor: Prof. Dirk Vorberg).
1996 - 2001: Study of Psychology at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany; Completed with Diploma.
04/'98 - 09/'00: Research Assistant at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany (supervisor: Prof. Dirk Vorberg).

Stipends/Awards

2000: Braunschweiger Bürgerpreis(€1.000), Braunschweig, Germany
2001: PhD stipend from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes)
2003: Poster Award (€500), Tübinger Wahrnehmungskonferenz, Tübingen, Germany
2006: Heinrich-Büssing-Preis (€5.000) for PhD thesis, Braunschweig, Germany
2007: Travel Grant (€500), Conference on Oculomotor Systems and Biology, Lewiston, USA
2008: Poster Award (€160), Rovereto Attention Workshop, Rovereto, Italy
2018: Heisenberg-Professorship (German Research Council)

Reviews for Funding Institutions

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Fulbright
European Social Funds, SISSA, Italien
Leverhulme Trust, England
Rosetrees Trust, England
Medical Research Council, England

Reviewing Activities for Peer-Reviewed Journals

Neuron, Current Biology, Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuroimage, Human Brain Mapping, Psychophysiology, Journal of Neurophysiology, Cerebral Cortex, Journal of Vision, Vision Research, Cortex, Brain & Cognition, Brain and Language, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Cognitive Neuropsychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Frontiers in Emotion Science, Brain Structure and Function, Consciousness and Cognition, Developmental Cognitive Science, Plos One, Neuropsychologia, Neuroscience, Psychophysiology, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Attention Perception & Psychophysics, Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Psychological Bulletin, Brain and Neuroscience Advances, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, Neuroscience, i-Perception, Nature Human Behaviour, European Journal of Neuroscience, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Editorial Work

since 12/2016: Associate Editor, Journal of Neuroscience

Organization of Scientific Meetings

2009: Co-organizer of the Rovereto Workshop on Crossmodal Plasticity, CIMeC, UNITN, Italy
2012: Co-organizer of the FieldTrip Workshop, CIMeC, UNITN, Italy
2014: Organizer of the Symposium Current Topics in Action Observation, Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Giessen, Germany
2016: Co-organizer of the Combined Universities Brain Imaging Centre (CUBIC) Workshop, Roehampton, UK
2017: Co-organizer of the Combined Universities Brain Imaging Centre (CUBIC) Workshop, Brunel University, UK
2017: Co-organizer of the Summer Workshop Action Understanding - From Kinematics to Meaning, Dartmouth College, Hanover, US
2018: Organizer of the Combined Universities Brain Imaging Centre (CUBIC) Workshop, Royal Holloway University of London, UK

Projects

The cognitive and neural organization of actions
DFG grant [Project Number 392004592]
Zuzanna Kabulska & Angelika Lingnau

The neural basis of category specificity versus inter-category specificity
funded by a PhD scholarship from the Chinese Government
Tonghe Zhuang & Angelika Lingnau

Spatiotemporal dynamics underlying the representation of real-world actions DFG grant [Project Number 449543418] Zuzanna Kabulska & Angelika Lingnau