Curriculum Vitae
Employment and Contact Information
Prof. Dr. Erich Schröger, Dipl.-Psych., Dr. phil. habil.
1958 born in Munich (Germany).
Full Professor for Cognitive including Biological Psychology
Institute of Psychology
Faculty for Biological Sciences, Pharmacy, and Psychology
University of Leipzig
Neumarkt 9-19
D-04109 Leipzig
Germany
Voice: +49 341-97 39571
Fax: +49 341-97 39270
E-mail: schroger at rz dot uni-leipzig dot de
Web: http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~biocog/
Education
| 1982 | Bakkalaureat in Philosophy (Hochschule für Philosophie München, Philosophische Fakultät S.J.) |
| 1986 | Diplom in Psychology (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) |
| 1991 | Dr. phil. in Psychology (Major: Psychology; minor: Statistics, Philosophy; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) |
| 1996 | Habilitation in Psychology (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) |
Career Path
| 1987-1999 | Researcher/Lecturer (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, BATIIa), University of Munich |
| 1991-1991 | Research Fellow at the Cognitive Brain Research Unit, University of Helsinki |
| 1991-1996 | Assistant Professor (C1), University of Munich |
| 1992-1992 | Teaching Fellow at the Catholic University Eichstätt |
| 1997-1997 | Associate Professor (C2), University of Munich |
| 1997-2001 | Professor for Biological Psychology (C3), University of Leipzig |
| 2001-present | Full Professor for Cognitive including Biological Psychology | 2017-present | Vice Rector for Research and Young Academics of Leipzig University |
Academic Awards/Honors
| 1996 | Distinguished Scientific Award for An Early Career Contribution to Psychophysiology of the Society for Psychophysiological Research |
| 1998-2003 | Head of the Study-Group "Working Memory" of the German Research Foundation |
| 1999-2002 | Vice-Dean of the Faculty for Biological Sciences, Pharmacy, and Psychology |
| 1998-1999 | Member of the Research Council of the University of Leipzig |
| 2000-2008 | Member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Cognitive Sciences at the University of Leipzig |
| 2002-2004 | Director of the Institute for General Psychology of the University of Leipzig |
| 2002-2005 | Member of the Early Career Award Committee of the Society for Psychophysiological Research |
| 2003-2004 | Head of the Psychological Institutes of the University of Leipzig |
| 2003-2005 | Elected Head of the Department General Psychology (Fachgruppe Allgemeine Psychologie) of the German Society for Psychology (DGPs) |
| 2004-2005 | Member of the Nominating Committee of the Society for Psychophysiological Research |
| 2004-2008 | Delegate for Young Researchers of the German Society for Psychology (DGPs) |
| 2004-2007 | Elected Member of the Grant Council "General and Physiological Psychology, Biological Psychology, Methods" of the German Research Foundation (DFG) |
| 2005 | Dean for Study Affairs in Psychology |
| 2005-2007 | Elected Member of the Board of Directors of the Society for Psychophysiological Research |
| 2007-2011 | Elected Member and Speaker of the Grant Council "Psychology" of the German Research Foundation (DFG) |
| 2008 | Reinhart-Koselleck Grant (DFG) |
| 2010-2013 | Dean for Study Affairs in Psychology |
| 2014-2016 | Dean of the Faculty of Biosciences, Pharmacy and Psychology |
| 2013-2022 | Member of the Selection Committee for the Allocation of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Awards |
| 2014-present | Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg |
| 2015-2023 | Member of the Advisory Board of the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena |
| 2015-present | Elected Member, Academia Europaea | 2017-present | Vice Rector for Research and Young Academics of Leipzig University | 2019-2022 | Fellow of the Max Planck School of Cognition | 2020-2023 | Appointed Member of the International Commission of Experts for the Elite Network of Bavaria |
Editorial Activities
| 2004-2015 | Action Editor of International Journal of Psychophysiology | 2007-2015 | Associate Editor of Psychophysiology |
| 2010- | Review Editor for Frontiers in Human Neuroscience |
| 2010- | Review Editor for Frontiers in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience |
| 2012-2019 | Senior Editor for Brain Research |
Consultant Referee for Scientific Journals
[1] Acta Acustica; [2] Acta Psychologica; [3] Anesthesiology; [4] Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics; [5] Audiology & Neuro-Otology; [6] Behavioral and Brain Function; [7] Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers; [8] Biological Psychology; [9] Biological Psychiatry; [10] BMC Neuroscience; [11] Brain and Cognition; [12] Brain and Language; [13] Brain Research; [14] Brain Topography; [15] British Journal of Psychology; [16] Cerebral Cortex; [17] Clinical Neurophysiology; [18] Cognition; [19] Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience; [20] Cognitive Brain Research; [21] Cognitive Neuroscience; [22] Cortex; [23] Developmental Science; [24] Emotion; [25] European Journal of Cognitive Psychology; [26] European Journal of Neuroscience; [27] Experimental Brain Research; [28] Experimental Psychology; [29] Frontiers in Human Neuroscience; [30] Hearing Research; [31] Human Brain Mappping; [32] International Journal of Psychophysiology; [33] Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry; [34] Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience; [35] Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance; [36] Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition; [37] Journal of Neurophysiology; [38] Journal of Psychiatric Research; [39] Journal of Psychophysiology; [40] Journal of the Acoustical Society of America; [41] Journal of Neuroscience Methods; [42] Journal of New Music Research; [43] Music Perception; [44] Neurobiology of Aging; [45] Neurocase; [46] NeuroImage; [47] Neuropsychologia; [48] Neuroreport; [49] Neuroscience Letters; [50] Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews; [51] Neuroscience (IBRO); [52] Neuroscience Journal; [53] Perception & Psychophysics; [54] Perceptual and Motor Skills; [55] Plos One; [56] PLOS Computational Biology; [57] Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America; [58] Progress in Neurobiology; [59] Psychological Research; [60] Psychonomic Bulletin & Review; [61] Psychopharmacology; [62] Psychophysiology; [63] Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology; [64] Scandinavian Journal of Psychology; [65] Schizophrenia Bulletin; [66] Science; [67] Scientific Reports; [68] Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience; [69] The American Journal of Psychiatry; [70] The Journal of Neuroscience; [71] Visual Cognition; [72] Zeitschrift für Neuropsychologie; [73] Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie; [74] Zeitschrift für Entwicklungspsychologie und Pädagogische Psychologie; [75] Zeitschrift für Audiologie; [76] Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie
Consultant Referee for Scientific Organisations
[1] AQAS - Agentur für Qualitätssicherung durch Akkreditierung von Studiengängen, DE; [2] Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst; [3] BEO (Projektträger Biologie, Energie und Umwelt des BMBF und BMWi) Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, DE; [4] Catalan University of Barcelona, SP; [5] Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), DE; [6] European Research Council (ERC); [7] evalag (Evaluationsagentur Baden-Württemberg); [8] Finish Academy of Sciences, FI; [9] Free University of Amsterdam, NL; [10] German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research & Development, DE-IL; [11] International University Bremen, DE; [12] Max-Planck-Institut für Psychologische Forschung DE; [13] National Science Foundation (NSF), USA; [14] Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada; [15] Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg, DE; [16] Philipps-Universität Marburg, DE; [17] Österreichisches Bundesministerium für Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur, AT; [18] Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO); [19] Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong; [20] Schweizer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung,CH; [21] Simon Fraser University, Ottawa, CA; [22] Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, DE; [23] Universität des Saarlandes; [24] Universität Hamburg; [25] University of the Balearic Islands, ES; [26] University of Bergen, NO; [27] University of California, Davis, USA; [28] University of Helsinki, FI; [29] University of Pittsburgh, USA; [30] University of Sussex, UK; [31] University of Toronto, CA; [32] University of Warwick, UK; [33] Universität Tübingen, DE; [34] Universität Wien, AT; [35] The Estonian Science Foundation (ETF), EE; [36] The City University of New York, USA; [37] The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IL; [38] The Israel Science Foundation, IL; [39] The University of California, San Diego, USA; [40] The University of Glasgow, UK; [41]The University of Newcastle, AU; [42] The University of Western Australia, AU; [43] The Welcome Trust, UK; [44] Zentral Evaluations- und Akkreditierungsagentur (zeva), DE; and others
Memberships
Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR)
International Organisation of Psychophysiology (IOP)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs)
Fachgruppe Allgemeine Psychologie der DGPs
Fachgruppe Biologische Psychologie der DGPs
Fachgruppe Geschichte der Psychologie der DGPs
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychophysiologie und ihre Anwendungen (DGPA)
Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft
Academia Europaea
Wilhelm-Wundt-Gesellschaft
Teaching
Regular teaching (lectures, seminars, practical courses) in Cognitive Psychology, Biological Psychology, Experimental Psychology, Statistics 4-8 h per week for B.Sc., M.Sc., Diploma students with Psychology as major or minor since 1987. Additional teaching in the International Max Planck Research School on Neuroscience of Communication: Function, Structure and Plasticity (IMPRS NeuroCom) since 2009, in the Research Training Group "Function of Attention in Cognition" (2005-2014)
Promotion of Young Scientists
Reviewer of more than 120 doctoral theses; Member of doctoral thesis boards more than 250 times; Mentor in Post-doc and Habilitation mentoring programs; Delegate for Young Researchers of the German Society for Psychology (DGPs); Main supervisor of 19 PhD students; Main mentor of five "Habilitanden" (all of them became professor-ships or senior lectureships in tenure positions); seven post-docs of my lab from Canada, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Spain moved to tenure or tenure-track positions in science when they left my lab. Several PPP-grants of the German Academic Exchange Program (Australia, Finland, Hungary, Spain) with a special focus of training young researchers (graduate and dotoral students; post-docs early in their career).
Contact
Cognitive and Biological Psychology
University of Leipzig
Faculty of Life Sciences
Institute of Psychology
Neumarkt 9-19
D-04109 Leipzig
Secretariat
Dagmar Schrödl
Phone: +49 341 97-39570
Email: dagmar dot schroedl at uni-leipzig dot de
Fax: +49 341 97-39271