Belinda Pletzer – Curriculum Vitae
Current positions
- Since March 2013: Postdoctoral scholar at the 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
Education & Research Experience
| 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) |
Awards
- 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)
Editorial & Reviewer activities
- 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.
Membership in academic societies
- Since 2010: Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Salzburg
- Since 2012: Austrian Neuroscience Association (ANA)
- Since 2012: Society for Neuroscience (SfN)