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
The biological stress response (HR, HRV, EDA, cortisol, alpha-amylase) to cognitive and social-evaluative stress in the Virtual Reality Stroop Room.

Publications

Ringgold, V., Mehringer, W., Eskofier, B., & Rohleder, N. (2023, April 11–13). Stroop, Stress, and VR: Developing the Virtual Reality Stroop Room [Conference presentation]. Wuertual Reality XR Meeting 2023, 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 PhD Candidate Chair of Health Psychology Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
since 10/2021	Researcher and PhD 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	Title tbd (Master’s Thesis; MaD Lab)
2023	Birte Höft	Implementing an augmented reality application to improve stereoscopic vision (Co-supervision; Master’s Thesis; MaD Lab)
2022	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)

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