Belinda Pletzer – Curriculum Vitae

Current positions

Since March 2013: Postdoctoral scholar at the Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience & Department of Psychology , University of Salzburg, Austria.
Since Oct 2015: Member of the faculty of the DK W1233-G17: “Imaging the Mind”
Sub-project: “Sex hormone influences on higher order cognitive functions”
Since Oct 2015: PI of stand-alone project P28261 on “Sex hormone influences on inter-hemispheric communication during global-local processing” funded by the FWF

10/2001 – 10/2003	bachelor student in physiology and cellular biology special subject: biopsychology and psychophysiology
10/2003 – 12/2005	master student in zoology and animal biology, graduation with distinction priority subject: behavioral and neurobiology
10/2001 – 01/2006	diploma student in psychology special subject: neurobiology
10/2001 – 12/2004	diploma student in philosophy, graduation with distinction
09/2002 – 11/2005	bachelor student in mathematics
11/2005 – 10/2007	master student in mathematics, graduation with distinction
03/2005 – 10/2007	PhD student of Arts (subject: philosophy), graduation with distinction
03/2006 – 08/2010	PhD student of Science (subject: zoology), graduation with distinction dissertation: Stress, sex and mathematical problem solving. An integrative approach including behavioural, endocrinological and neuroimaging data Sponsored by a Doc-Fforte scholarship, Austrian Academy of Sciences (OEAW)
09/2010 – 08/2011	Independent research project at the University of Salzburg, Austria project title: Sex hormone influences on human brain structure.
09/2011 – 08/2012	Postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Larry Cahill at the Department of Neurobiology & Behavior, University of Californa, Irvine. project title: Gist vs. detail – a fundamental principle underlying sex differences in cognition. Sponsored by an Erwin-Schroedinger fellowship, Austrian Science Fund (FWF)

Doc-Fforte scholarship of the Austrian Acadamy of Sciences (05/2007 – 04/2010)
Erwin-Schroedinger fellowship of the Austrian Science Fund J3165-G7 (09/2011 – 08/2012)
Career grant of the City of Salzburg’s Culture Fund (2013)

Editor of Frontiers Research Topic: From Sex Differences in Neuroscience to a Neuroscience of Sex differences
Ad-hoc reviewer for Neuroimage, Psychoneuroendocrinology, Frontiers in Neuroscience, European Neuropsychopharmacology, Neuropsychologia, Brain Research and many more.