Veronika Ringgold, M.Sc.

Research Focus

Stress: Physiological Stress Response (Cortisol, Amylase, EKG), Self-Reported Stress
Tools: Virtual Reality Stroop Room (VRSR), Questionnaires

Academic CV

since 10/2021 Researcher and Doctoral Candidate

Chair of Health Psychology
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)

Machine Learning and Data Analytics Lab,
Department Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Engineering (AIBE), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)

05/2020-08/2021 Researcher

Bamberg Living Lab for Dementia Research (BamLiD)
University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany

09/2017-03/2020 M.Sc. in Psychology

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany

Majors: Health Psychology, Law Psychology, Clinical Psychology
Master’s Thesis: “Putting a STRAIN on Resilience: Exploring the Role of Resilience in Adverse Life Circumstances and Investigating its Effects on Stress Appraisal and Psychological Health”

08/2019-03/2020 Research Assistant

Machine Learning and Data Analytics Lab
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)

01/2018-08/2020 Research Assistant

Chair of Psychological Diagnostics, Methodology and Law Psychology
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)

10/2014-07/2017 B.Sc. in Psychology

Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt a.M., Germany

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
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

Publications

Ringgold, V., Abel, L., Eskofier, B. M., & Rohleder, N. (2024, March 22). Sex differences in acute biological stress responses triggered by the Virtual Reality Stroop Room. Poster presented at the 81st Annual Meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, Brighton, United Kingdom.
Ringgold, V., Kaiser, P., Eskofier, B. M., & Rohleder, N. (2023, August 31). Deception in the Virtual Reality Stroop Room. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology, London, United Kingdom.
Kurz, M., Abel, L., Hauck, F., Richer, R., Ringgold, V., Schindler-Gmelch, L., Eskofier, B. M., & Rohleder, N. (2023, August 31). f-TSST+: An extension to the friendly Trier Social Stress Test for better behavioral comparability. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology, London, United Kingdom.
Ringgold, V., Mehringer, W., Eskofier, B. M., & Rohleder, N. (2023, April 12). Stroop, Stress, and VR: Developing the Virtual Reality Stroop Room. Presentation at the Wuertual Reality XR Meeting, 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.

Teaching

Best Practices in Open Science (BPOS) 2023/24 Lecture & Exercise FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
Digital Health Psychology 2023/24 Seminar FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
Applied Data Science in Medicine & Psychology (ADS) 2023 Lecture & Exercise FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
Digital Health Psychology 2023 Seminar FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
Digital Psychology Lab 2022/23 Seminar FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
Digital Psychology Lab 2022/23 Seminar FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
Neuropsychological Diagnostics in People with Dementia 2020 Seminar University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany
Basic Design Principles for PhDs 2014 Presentation University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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
(Co-supervision; Master’s Thesis; MaD Lab)

2023 Ira von Lindeiner

Effects of the Virtual Reality Stroop Room on affect and stress parameters
(Master’s Thesis; Health Psychology)

2023 Jonathan Schumacher

The relationship between various biomarkers, psychosocial stress, and movement patterns: Freezing, the neglected stress response
(Co-supervision; Master’s Thesis; Health Psychology)

2023 Sabrina Heumann

Fight, Flight or Freeze? – Changes in body movements under acute stress with a focus on gender differences
(Master’s Thesis; Health Psychology)

2022 Paula Kaiser
2022 Nicole Merz

The Effects of Visual and Auditory Instructions during Virtual Reality Technician Training on Stress Perception
(Bachelor’s Thesis; Health Psychology)

2021 Benjamin Zenke

stress+ – Development and Evaluation of a Web Application for Remote, Internet-based Induction of Acute Psychosocial Stress
(Co-supervision; Master’s Thesis; MaD Lab)

Prizes, Awards, Scholarships, Research Visits

  • Best Presentation Award, EmpkinS iRTG Retreat (February 2022)
  • Scholarship from the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation
  • Research stay at the University of Arkansas, U.S.A., at the SCAN Lab with Grant S. Shields, PhD

Further Qualifications

Statistical data analysis using SPSS, R, and 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)