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Dr. Enya Weidner

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Curriculum Vitae

'Academic degrees'

Aug 2020 - Jan 2025
PhD neuroscience • Bielefeld University, GER • Grade "„summa cum laude”
I CAN’T HELP BUT LOOK AT YOU? A characterization of temporal dynamics within neural systems for the perception of emotional faces.”
1st Dissertation advisor: Prof. Dr. Johanna Kissler
2nd Dissertation advisor: Prof. Dr. Thomas Gruber

Oct 2017 - Oct 2019
M. Sc. Psychology • Bielefeld University, GER • Grade 1.1
“Temporal dynamics of emotion and attention in the amygdala and visual processing” (Grade: 1.1)
Thesis advisor: Prof. Dr. Johanna Kissler

Oct 2014 - Oct 2017
B.Sc. Psychology • Osnabrück University, GER • Grade 1.4
“Prefrontal theta-oscillations in fear extinction under different levels of estradiol” (Grade: 1.0)
Thesis advisor: Prof. Dr. Ursula Stockhorst

'Research positions'
Jan 2025 - present
Lecturer and post-doctoral researcher • Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
Institute of Psychology Department of Affective Neuroscience, General Psychology II

Mar-Oct 2022
Clinical researcher • Mara Hospital, Bethel Epilepsy Center, Bielefeld, GER

Oct-Dec 2021
Visiting researcher • Center for Biomedical Technologies, UPM, Madrid, ESP

Apr 2020- Jan 2025
Lecturer and pre-doctoral researcher • Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
Institute of Psychology Department of Affective Neuroscience, General Psychology II

Current research topics

Social learning
Networks for processing perceptual versus semantic emotion
Intra- and extracranial eletrophysiological recordings in patients with epilepsy
Neuropsychological and -physiological indicators that differentiate temporal lobe lesions

Memberships and Functions

DGPs, Biological Psychology
Hauspoststille
EDGE Neuroscience and Art e.V.
Society for Psychophysiological Research