Dr. Jana Uher       

 

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Comparative Differential 
and Personality Research

 

Curriculum vitae

Professional experiences

since 2010 Head of the research group "Comparative Differential and Personality Psychology", Department of Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin
2009-2010 Research fellow, Department of Psychology, Free University Berlin
2006-2007 Research associate and lecturer, Institute for Psychology, Humboldt University Berlin
Courses taught:
Seminar "Personality and Personnel Selection", summer term 2007
Seminar "Personality and Criminality", summer term 2006
Seminar "Personality and Sexuality", summer term 2006
2003-2005 Research assistant, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology and Wolfgang Köhler Primate Research Center, Leipzig, Germany

Education

Ph.D. (Dr. phil.), Psychology, 2009, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Completed with Summa cum laude (highest distinction)
MSc+BSc equivalent (Diplom), Psychology, 2005, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Diploma-Thesis: "Personality in the Great Apes - Methods and Approaches". Humboldt University Berlin & Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, 2005. [abstract]

Grants and Scholarships

Research grant (2010-2013; UH249/1-1), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG (317.000 Euro)
Postdoctoral research grant (2009-2010), Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (45.500 Euro)
PhD support grant (2007-2008), Humboldt University Berlin, Germany (4.800 Euro)
Travel grants:
European Association of Personality Psychology EAPP (2010)
Humboldt University Berlin, Germany (2008)
European Association of Personality Psychology EAPP (2008)
Humboldt University Berlin, Germany (2007)

Awards and Prizes

First Prize for outstanding oral presentations in the IPS student competition (for the talk on "Primate personality: Theory, approaches and assessment methods") at the XXII Congress of the International Primatological Society (IPS) 2008 in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Award for the Best Diploma Thesis on Personality of the Differential Psychology, Personality Psychology and Psychological Diagnostics Section of the German Psychological Association (DGPs) in 2005-2006; Vienna, Austria, 2007
Award for the Best Diploma (M.A.) Thesis of the year 2006 at the Psychological Institute, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany; 2007

Memberships

American Psychological Association (APA)
Association for Psychological Science (APS)
European Association for Personality Psychology (EAPP)
German Psychological Society (DGPs)
   Section Differential and Personality Psychology, Psychological Diagnostics 
   Section Methods and Evaluation
   Section Social Psychology
Society for Ambulatory Assessment (SAA)
Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)
Animal Behavior Society (ABS)
International Primatological Society (IPS)
Primate Society of Great Britain (PSGB)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Primatologie e.V. (GfP)

Ad-hoc Reviewer

Biology Letters
Diagnostica
European Journal of Personality
Journal of Comparative Psychology
Naturwissenschaften - The Science of Nature
OIKOS - Synthesising Ecology
Personality and Individual Differences
Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences

Further qualification

Education as a trainer for communication and behaviour at artop e.V., Co-Institute at the Humboldt University Berlin, Germany (2002-2003)