Ambassadors

Speaker

Dr. Christina Bauer

 I am working as a post-doc researcher at the Department of Occupational, Economic and Social Psychology. I investigate how identity-based processes put stigmatized individuals at a disadvantage and how psychologically wise interventions can help those individuals succeed. 

I joined to the ECR Working Group in 2021.

Responsible for: speaker, communication with the deanery of the Faculty.

Department of Occupational, Economic and Social Psychology

Leopold Roth


Mail: 

leopold.roth@univie.ac.at

I am currently doing my PhD in the motivation psychology group. In my project, I mainly focus on fatigue, self-control and how the to interact on the physiological level.

I joined the ECR Working Group in 2024.

Responsible for: Workshops

 

 

Teresa Koch

I am working as a predoc researcher at the Department of Occupational, Economic and Social Psychology. I focus on children’s and adolescents’ digital maturity and how a beneficial use of digital technologies can be encouraged. My research is part of the EU Horizon 2020 project DIGYMATEX.

I joined the ECR Working Group in 2022.

Responsible for: Workshops and Development

Julia Reiter

I am working as a post-doc researcher at the Department of Occupational, Economic and Social Psychology. I investigate political developmental processes during adolescence and emerging adulthood, including collective action, activism, and radicalization, as well as intergroup conflicts and societal conflicts in a broader sense.

I joined the ECR Working Group in 2023.

Responsible for: Diversity and Inclusion

Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology

Alexandra Alvarez 

Mail:
alexandra.alvarez@donau-uni.ac.at

I am a PhD student working in the Empirical Visual Aesthetics Lab and the ARTIS Lab. My research focuses on the art experience across different modalities as well as emotion sharing. I am a researcher with the FWF funded ORDIV project in collaboration with the University of Continuing Education in Krems and the Belvedere Museum.

I joined the ECR working group in 2024.

Responsible for: Workshops

Moana Drüe

Mail:
moana.druee@univie.ac.at

I am a PhD student in the Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, part of the SCAN-Unit. My research focuses on climate change, aiming to understand why people find it challenging to adopt eco-friendly behaviours despite the urgent need for it.

I joined the ECR working group in 2024.

Responsible for: Mental health among ECR’s

Burcu Bayram  

I am currently working as a PhD student at the deparment of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology. In my research, I focus on how auditory spatial and temporal predictions are represented in the brain.

I joined to the ECR Working Group in 2022.

Responsible for: webpage management, mailing list management





Nina Vapoutic

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Environmental Psychology group within the department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology. My interest lies in how people cope with scientific knowledge in their everyday lives, and more specifically I am involved in two research projects: in the first one, I am investigating risk perception of 5G technologies in experts and general public, and in the second one, I am investigating public perception and policy support regarding marine pollution.

I joined to the ECR Working Group in 2022.

Responsible for: mental health among ECRs, writing retreat

Luise Graichen 

Mail:

luise.philine.graichen@univie.ac.at

I am a PhD student at the Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, part of the Wagner Lab and affiliated with the Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit. The focus of my research is memory and navigation. How do we remember the past, how do we navigate the future? To investigate both concepts I am using a set of different methods such as eye tracking and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

I joined the ECR working group in 2023.

Responsible for: webpage management, external communication, travel grants

Leonie Fian

I am currently working as a PhD student in the Environmental Psychology research group at the Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology. My research focuses on exploring how microplastics in food and drinking water are perceived by different stakeholder groups and how this is related to acceptance of policies aiming to tackle plastic pollution.

I joined the ECR Working Group in 2022.

Responsible for: Mental health among ECRs

Leonardo Bergmann

I am a PhD student in the Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology. In my research, I aim to investigate how large language models can assist researchers in study planning and identifying appropriate statistical methods. 

I joined to the ECR Working Group in 2023.

Responsible for: webpage and mailing list management

Department of Clinical and Health Psychology

Achilleas Tsarpalis Fragkoulidis 

I am currently a PhD student at the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, working for the Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology unit. My work is focused on fears of social evaluation, emotion dysregulation and social anxiety in adolescence.

I joined to the ECR Working Group in 2023.

Responsible for: Travel grants

Hannah Tschenett

Mail: hannah.tschenett@univie.ac.at

I am a PhD student in the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology. My research focuses on the mechanisms of psychobiological stress and the investigation of stress management strategies for daily life.

I joined to the ECR Working Group in 2024.

Responsible for: Diversity & Inclusion

Stephanie Hirsch 

Mail: s.hirsch@univie.ac.at

 I am working as a predoc at the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology in the Outpatient Unit for Research, Teaching and Praxis. In my research I focus on the negative impact of ethnic discrimination on psychobiological processes. Additionally, I am investigating the potential of an intervention to empower immigrant women to cope with discriminatory events in their daily life.  

I joined to the ECR Working Group in 2021.

Responsible for: Diversity & Inclusion

Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology

Markus Tünte

I am currently working as a predoc at the Department for Developmental and Educational Psychology. In my research, I investigate the development of interoception and social cognition in early childhood. 

I joined to the ECR Working Group in 2023.

Responsible for: open science journal club

Fiona Rupprecht

I am working as a post-doc researcher at the Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology. In my research, I am focusing on how adults approach and prepare for their own aging, deal with the passage of time, the finitude of life, and ultimately, death.

I joined the ECR Working Group in 2021.

Responsible for: Workshops and Development