curriculum vitae
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personal details
Date of birth: 5th November 1977
Place of birth: Rostock, Germany
education
| 05.03 - 05.07 | University of Potsdam (Germany), Experimental Psychology PhD (summa cum laude) Thesis: In-between fixation and movement: On the generation of microsaccades and what they convey about saccade preparation[pdf] supervised by Prof. Reinhold Kliegl & Prof. Ralf Engbert |
| 04.00 - 04.03 | University of Potsdam (Germany), Psychology Diplom (M.A. equivalent) (grade: excellent) Thesis: Statistics of Microsaccades in a Crossmodal Attentional Cuing Paradigm supervised by Dr. Ralf Engbert & Prof. Reinhold Kliegl |
| 10.99 - 03.00 | Universidad Complutense Madrid (Spain) Education abroad with EU student exchange program Sokrates/Erasmus |
| 10.97 - 09.99 | University of Potsdam (Germany) Vordiplom (B.A. equivalent) Psychology (grade: excellent) |
academic positions and research experience
| 03.10 - 03.13 | New York University (USA) & Institut de Neurosciences Cognitives de la Méditerranée (France) Postdoctoral research scientist (Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellow) Laboratories of Prof. Marisa Carrasco (NYU) and Dr. Eric Castet (INCM) |
| 03.08 - 03.10 | Université Paris Descartes, Paris V (France) Postdoctoral research scientist (Postdoc position) Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, laboratory of Prof. Patrick Cavanagh |
| 05.07 - 03.08 | University of Potsdam (Germany) Postdoctoral research scientist (University position) Experimental Psychology, laboratory of Prof. Reinhold Kliegl |
| 10.05 - 05.07 | University of Potsdam (Germany) Graduate research scientist (University position) Experimental Psychology, laboratory of Prof. Reinhold Kliegl |
| 05.03 - 09.05 | University of Potsdam (Germany) Graduate research scientist (in DFG project "Dynamics of parallel processing in cognition and behavior", Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Preis) Experimental Psychology, laboratory of Prof. Reinhold Kliegl |
| 11.01 - 01.02 | Daimler-Chrysler AG, Frankfurt a. M. (Germany) Student trainee Research & Technology, Online-research group |
| 07.01 - 09.01 | Daimler-Chrysler AG, Frankfurt a. M. (Germany) Intern Research & Technology, Online-research group |
| 06.00 - 04.03 | University of Potsdam (Germany) Student research assistant Experimental Psychology, laboratory of Prof. Reinhold Kliegl |
research visits
| August 2010 | Experimental Psychology Group, University of Potsdam (Germany)
by invitation from Dr. Michael Dambacher |
| July 2010 | Vision Lab, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (USA) by invitation from Maryam Vaziri-Pashkam and Prof. Patrick Cavanagh |
| November 2009 | Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, Université de Provence & CNRS Marseille (France) by invitation from Dr. Françoise Vitu |
| December 2007 | Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, Université de Provence & CNRS Marseille (France) by invitation from Dr. Françoise Vitu |
teaching experience
At New York University (USA):
| 10.11 - 10.11 | Guest lecturer of undergraduate seminar COSEM-UA.109 "How we see" Topics: Perceptual organization & object recognition (invitation by Prof. Marisa Carrasco) |
| 05.11 - 06.11 | Lecturer of undergraduate course PSYCH-UA.22 "Perception" Topics: Psychology and neuroscience of sensation and perception |
At the University of Potsdam (Germany):
| 10.07 - 02.08 | Instructor of undergraduate seminar "Research Methods in Experimental Psychology" Topics: Unconscious cuing of attention |
| 04.07 - 07.07 | Instructor of undergraduate seminar "Research Methods in Experimental Psychology" Topics: Attention and the Perception of Causality |
| 10.06 - 02.07 | Instructor of undergraduate seminar "Research Methods in Experimental Psychology" Topics: The Perception of Causality |
| 04.06 - 07.06 | Instructor of undergraduate seminar "Research Methods in Experimental Psychology" Topics: Attentional Learning |
| 04.06 - 07.06 | Instructor of undergraduate seminar "Focussing Attention: Current Topics in Attention Research" |
| 10.05 - 02.06 | Instructor of undergraduate seminar "Research Methods in Experimental Psychology" Topics: Subjective vs. objective gaze position, Implicit learning, Oculomotor sequence learning |
| 10.06 - 02.07 | Teaching assistant for graduate seminar "Mathematical models of cognitive processes" |
peer review activities for journals
Ad-hoc reviewer for Journal of Vision, Vision Research, Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Neurophysiology, Experimental Brain Research, Attention Perception & Psychophysics, Behavioral Neuroscience, Journal of Eye Movement Research
Adjunct reviewer for Psychological Science, Psychological Review, Brain Research
peer review activities for funding agencies
Reviewer for Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
grants & fellowships
Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship, 2010-2013, 255,000 €
DFG grant for conference trip to the 29th European Conference on Visual Perception, St. Petersburg, Russia (August, 2006), 1,000 €
awards & honors
Viperlib Prize for best demonstration at the Demo Night of the Vision Sciences Society Meeting 2011, May 2011, Naples (FL)
Heinz Heckhausen Young Scientist Award of 2008, awarded biennially by the German Psychological Society (DGPs) to honor a doctoral dissertation in Psychology (awarded at the International Congress of Psychology, July 2008, Berlin)
Poster Prize at the Rovereto Attention Workshop 2008: Attention and Motor Control (October, 2008)
Travel award for 1st Summerschool on Visual Neuroscience--From spikes to awareness, Rauischholzhausen Castle, Germany (September, 2004)
Travel award for EuroConference on Computational Mechanisms for the Generation and Perception of Action in 3D Space, Aquafredda di Maratea, Italy (April, 2003)
Travel award for EuroConference and EBBS workshop on Cognitive and Neural Bases of Visuomotor control, La Londe, France (September, 2002)
Sokrates/Erasmus Foreign Exchange Scholarship (October 1999-March 2000)
invited talks
| November 2011 | Graduate Center for Vision Research, State University of New York (USA) by invitation from Prof. Ben Backus & Prof. Robert McPeek |
| March 2011 | Felix Wichmann lab, Technische Universität Berlin (Germany) by invitation from Dr. Simon Barthelmé |
| February 2011 | Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ (USA) by invitation from Dr. Susana Martinez-Conde |
| January 2011 | Brain Trauma Foundation, New York City (USA) by invitation from Prof. Jamshid Ghajar |
| July 2010 | Active Perception Lab, Boston University (USA) by invitation from Prof. Michele Rucci |
| November 2009 | Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, Université de Provence & CNRS Marseille (France) by invitation from Dr. Françoise Vitu |
| May 2009 | Experimental Psychology Group, University of Potsdam (Germany)
by invitation from Prof. Reinhold Kliegl |
| June 2008 | Experimental Psychology Group, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany)
by invitation from Dr. Frank Bauer |
| December 2007 | Institut de Neurosciences Cognitives de la Méditerranée, CNRS Marseille (France) by invitation from Dr. Eric Castet |
| December 2007 | Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, Université de Provence & CNRS Marseille (France) by invitation from Dr. Françoise Vitu |
| October 2007 | Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, CNRS Paris (France)
by invitation from Prof. Patrick Cavanagh |
papers presented at professional meetings
White, A.L., Rolfs, M. & Carrasco, M. (August, 2011). Pre-saccadic attention for motion stimuli. Poster presented at the 33rd European Conference on Visual Perception, Toulouse, France.
Rolfs, M. & Carrasco, M. (August, 2011). Perceptual consequences of presaccadic attention shifts. Paper presented at the 16th European Conference on Eye Movements, Marseille, France.
Tandonnet, C., Rolfs, M. & Vitu, F. (August, 2011). Influence of temporal target expectation on saccade initiation. Paper presented at the 16th European Conference on Eye Movements, Marseille, France.
Rolfs, M. & Carrasco, M. (May, 2011). Saccades gradually increase the perceived contrast of their targets. Paper presented at the 11th annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples (FL), USA.
Dambacher, M., Rolfs, M. & Cavanagh, P. (May, 2011). Visual adaptation of causality. Poster presented at the 11th annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples (FL), USA.
Rolfs, M. (March, 2011). Functional correlates of predictive remapping. Paper presented at the 53rd TeaP (Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen), Halle, Germany.
Rolfs, M. & Carrasco, M. (February, 2011). Dynamics of performance & perceived contrast at the targets of saccades. Paper presented at the CPS / CAPnet Winter Meeting 2011, Sainte-Adele, Canada.
Rolfs, M., Jonikaitis, D., Deubel, H., & Cavanagh, P. (August, 2010). Behavioural evidence for the remapping of saccade target locations. Paper presented at the 33rd European Conference on Visual Perception, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Rolfs, M., Jonikaitis, D., Deubel, H., & Cavanagh, P. (May, 2010). Predictive Updating Of Attention To Saccade Targets. Paper presented at the 10th annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples (FL), USA.
Rolfs, M., Collins, T., Deubel, H., & Cavanagh, P. (August, 2009). Accurate remapping of saccade targets to non-foveal locations. Paper presented at the 32nd European Conference on Visual Perception, Regensburg, Germany.
Knapen, T., Rolfs, M., Wexler, M., & Cavanagh, P. (August, 2009). Orientation and motion aftereffects are in retinotopic not world coordinates. Poster presented at the 32nd European Conference on Visual Perception, Regensburg, Germany.
Rolfs, M., Knapen, T., & Cavanagh, P. (May, 2009). Shrinking the oculomotor world using global saccadic adaptation. Paper presented at the 9th annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples (FL), USA.
Knapen, T., Rolfs, M., & Cavanagh, P. (May, 2009). The coordinate system of the motion aftereffect is retinotopic. Paper presented at the 9th annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples (FL), USA.
Kliegl, R., Rolfs, M., Laubrock, J., & Engbert, R. (November, 2008). When microsaccades follow spatial attention. Paper presented at the 49th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, USA.
Rolfs, M., Knapen, T., & Cavanagh, P. (October, 2008). The coordinate system of the motion aftereffect. Poster presented at the Rovereto Attention Workshop: Attention and Motor Control, Rovereto, Italy.
Rolfs, M. & Vitu, F. (August, 2008). Differential effects of target onset and target uncertainty on saccade latency distributions in the gap and overlap tasks. Paper presented at the 31st European Conference on Visual Perception, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Kinder, A., Rolfs, M. (March, 2008). Implizites Lernen von Positionssequenzen. Paper presented at 50th TeaP (Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen), Mainz, Germany.
Rolfs, M. & Vitu, F. (August, 2007). Spatial predictability decreases the impact of target onset in the gap task. Paper presented at the 30th European Conference on Visual Perception, Arezzo, Italy.
Rolfs, M. (August, 2007). In-between fixation and movement: Towards a common-field model of microsaccade and saccade generation. Paper presented at the 14th European Conference on Eye Movements, Potsdam, Germany.
Kliegl, R., Rolfs, M., Laubrock, J., & Engbert, R. (March, 2007). The functional role of microsaccades for attention: Evidence from RTs. Paper presented at the 2nd Munich Visual Search Symposium, Ammersee, Germany.
Laubrock, J., Engbert, R., Rolfs, M., & Kliegl, R. (March, 2007). Microsaccades as a measure of spatial attention shifts: A current controversy. Paper presented at 49th TeaP (Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen), Trier, Germany.
Rolfs, M. & Vitu, F. (August, 2006). On the limited role of target onset in the gap task: Support for the motor-preparation account. Paper presented at 29th European Conference on Visual Perception, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Rolfs, M., Engbert, R., & Kliegl, R. (April, 2006). Micro-saccadic inhibition. Paper presented at 48. TeaP (Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen), Mainz, Germany.
Kinder, A., Rolfs, M., & Kliegl, R. (April, 2006). Wie veraendern sich Blickbewegungen durch Sequenzlernen? Eine neue Variante der seriellen Reaktionszeitaufgabe. Paper presented at 48th TeaP (Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen), Mainz, Germany.
Rolfs, M., Laubrock, J., & Kliegl, R. (August, 2005). Shortening and Prolongation of Saccade Latencies Following Microsaccades. Poster presented at 13th European Conference on Eye Movements, Bern, Switzerland.
Rolfs, M., Engbert, R., & Kliegl, R. (August, 2004). Perception and motor control: The link between fixational eye movements and postural sway. Poster presented at 27th European Conference on Visual Perception, Budapest, Hungary.
Rolfs, M., Engbert, R., & Kliegl, R. (June, 2004). Microsaccades as a mirror of visual and auditory attention. Poster presented at 5th Annual Meeting of the International Multisensory Research Forum, Barcelona, Spain.
Rolfs, M., Engbert, R., & Kliegl, R. (April, 2004). Mikrosakkaden als Fenster in die Prozesse verdeckter Aufmerksamkeit. Paper presented at 46th TeaP (Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen), Giessen, Germany.
Rolfs, M., Engbert, R., & Kliegl, R. (April, 2003). Microsaccades correlate with audiovisual shifts of attention. Poster presented at EuroConference on Computational Mechanisms for the Generation and Perception of Action in 3D Space, Aquafredda di Maratea, Italy.
Rolfs, M., Engbert, R., & Kliegl, R. (March, 2003). Modulation von Mikrosakkadenstatistiken bei cross-modalem Cuing. Poster presented at 45th TeaP (Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen), Kiel, Germany.
Rolfs, M., Engbert, R., & Kliegl, R. (September, 2002). Modulation of microsaccade statistics in a cross-modal attentional cuing experiment. Poster presented at 43. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft fuer Psychologie, Berlin, Germany.
Rolfs, M., Engbert, R., & Kliegl, R. (September, 2002). Modulation of microsaccade statistics in a cross-modal attentional cuing experiment. Poster presented at EuroConference and EBBS workshop on Cognitive and Neural Bases of Visuomotor control, La Londe, France.
organization of conferences and symposia
| August 2011 | Extra-retinal signals for active vision (Young Investigators Symposium at the 16th European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM) in Marseille, France), Chair, co-charied by T. Collins |
| August 2007 | Fixational eye movements: Correlates in perception, attention, and oculomotor control (Young Investigators Symposium at the 14th European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM) in Potsdam, Germany), Chair |
| August 2007 | 14th European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM) in Potsdam, Germany, Local Staff |
other meeting, workshop, & summerschool participations
Gordon Conference on Eye Movements: The motor system that sees the world, University of New England, Biddeford ME, USA (July-August, 2011)
6. Dissertationswettbewerb der Fachgruppe Allgemeine Psychologie der DGPs (FGAP), Rauischholzhausen/Giessen, Germany (May, 2009)
Vision Sciences Society Meeting, Naples, Florida, USA (May, 2008)
1st ECRP Workshop on Eye-movement control in reading: Basic and applied issues of fixation and saccade generation, Potsdam, Germany (June, 2006)
18th Meeting of the British Ocular Motor Group, London, UK (December, 2004)
1st Summerschool on Visual Neuroscience-From spikes to awareness, Rauischholzhausen Castle, Germany (September, 2004)
Meeting of the Wilhelm-Wundt-Society, Potsdam, Germany (June, 2003)
memberships
| since 2010 | Marie Curie Fellows Association (MCFA) |
| since 2008 | Vision Sciences Society (VSS) |
| since 2007 | German Psychological Society (DGPs) |
| since 2007 | Section General Psychology of the DGPs (FGAP) |
| since 2005 | Association for Psychological Science (APS) |
| since 2004 | Helmholtz Center for Mind and Brain Dynamics, International Graduate School, University of Potsdam (Germany) |
| since 2003 | Interdisciplinary center for cognitive studies, University of Potsdam (Germany) |