Veronika Ringgold

Veronika Ringgold, M. Sc.

Researcher & PhD Candidate

Department Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Engineering (AIBE)
Lehrstuhl für Maschinelles Lernen und Datenanalytik

Room 01.025
Carl-Thiersch-Str. 2b
91052 Erlangen

Phone number: +49 9131 85-27830
Email: veronika.ringgold@fau.de
Website: https://www.healthpsych.phil.fau.eu/veronika-ringgold/

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

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 81^st 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.

Academic CV

since 01/2023	Researcher and Doctoral Candidate Chair of Health Psychology Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
since 10/2021	Researcher and Doctoral Candidate Chair of Health Psychology Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) Machine Learning and Data Analytics Lab, Department of 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
09/2017-03/2020	M.Sc. in Psychology Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) 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 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

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	Influence of Social-Evaluative Stress in the Virtual Reality Stroop Room (Master’s Thesis; MaD Lab)
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)

Teaching

Best Practices in Open Science (2023/24; Lecture & Exercise; FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)

Digital Health Psychology (2023/24; Seminar; FAU-Erlangen-Nürnberg)

Applied Data Science in Medicine & Psychology (2023; Lecture & Exercise; FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)

Digital Health Psychology (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)

Prizes, Awards, Scholarships, Research Visits

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

Veronika Ringgold