Veronika Ringgold, M.Sc.
Academic CV
since 10/2021 | Researcher and PhD Candidate
Chair of Health Psychology Machine Learning and Data Analytics Lab, |
05/2020-08/2021 | Researcher
Bamberg Living Lab for Dementia Research (BamLiD) |
09/2017-03/2020 | M.Sc. in Psychology
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) Majors: Health Psychology, Law Psychology, Clinical Psychology |
08/2019-03/2020 | Research Assistant
Machine Learning and Data Analytics Lab |
01/2018-08/2020 | Research Assistant
Chair of Psychological Diagnostics, Methodology and Law Psychology |
10/2014-07/2017 | B.Sc. in Psychology
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main Bachelor’s Thesis: “Cognitive Flexibility and Resilience: Introducing a Salience Component Into a Task-Switching Paradigm and Integrating Data from Resilience (Mechanism) Questionnaires” |
10/2016- 07/2017 |
Research Assistant
Fiebach Lab – Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience |
Student Theses
Year | Name | Title |
2023 | Jana Reinwald | Triggering an endocrine stress response in the Virtual Reality Stroop Room through social-evaluative stress (Master’s Thesis; MaD Lab) |
2023 | Birte Höft |
Implementing an augmented reality application to improve stereoscopic vision |
2023 | Ira von Lindeiner |
Effects of the Virtual Reality Stroop Room on affect and stress parameters |
2023 | Jonathan Schumacher |
The relationship between various biomarkers, psychosocial stress, and movement patterns: Freezing, the neglected stress response |
2023 | Sabrina Heumann |
Fight, Flight or Freeze? – Changes in body movements under acute stress with a focus on gender differences |
2022 | Paula Kaiser |
Influence of Social-Evaluative Stress in the Virtual Reality Stroop Room |
2022 | Nicole Merz |
The Effects of Visual and Auditory Instructions during Virtual Reality Technician Training on Stress Perception |
2021 | Benjamin Zenke |
stress+ – Development and Evaluation of a Web Application for Remote, Internet-based Induction of Acute Psychosocial Stress |
Research Focus
The biological stress response (HR, HRV, EDA, cortisol, alpha-amylase) to cognitive and social-evaluative stress in the Virtual Reality Stroop Room.
Publications
- Ringgold, V., Mehringer, W., Eskofier, B., & Rohleder, N. (2023, April 11–13). Stroop, Stress, and VR: Developing the Virtual Reality Stroop Room [Conference presentation]. Wuertual Reality XR Meeting 2023, Wuerzburg, Germany. https://doi.org/10.25972/OPUS-31720
- Herzer, L., Muecke, A., Richer, R., Albrecht, N. C., Heyder, M., Jaeger, K. M., … & Eskofier, B. M. (2022, September). Influence of Sensor Position and Body Movements on Radar-Based Heart Rate Monitoring. In 2022 IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI) (pp. 1-4). IEEE.
Prizes, Awards, Scholarships
- Best Presentation Award EmpkinS iRTG Retreat (February 2022)
- PhD-Scholarship of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation
Teaching
Applied Data Science in Medicine & Psychology (2023; lecture & exercise; FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Digital Psychology Lab (2023; seminar; FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Digital Psychology Lab (2022/23; seminar; FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Digital Psychology Lab (2021/22; seminar; FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Neuropsychological Diagnostics in People with Dementia (2020; seminar; University of Augsburg)
Basic Design Principles for PhDs (2014; seminar; University of Freiburg)
Further Qualifications
Statistical data analysis in R
Python
FACS coding (Facial Action Coding System; certificate of the Paul Ekman Group)
Advanced Training in Trauma Therapy (2020; BMBF funded project “ECQAT” of the University Hospital Ulm and the University of Bielefeld)
Diploma in Communication Design with focus on Information Design (2010; SfG Ravensburg)