Dr. Ina Faßbender
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- Office: AR-NB 107
- Phone: +49 (0)271 740-4936
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- Lab: AR-NB 131
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Dr. Ina Faßbender is a Senior Researcher within the Chair of Developmental Psychology and Clinical Psychology of the Lifespan at the Faculty of Life Sciences. She heads the research projects pfiffikäuzchen siegen and You Changed?! and conducts research on learning in socio-cultural contexts, including cross-cultural research, face perception in infants, memory (development) in early childhood, life events and the development of well-being and personality.
Postal address:
University of Siegen
Faculty II - Department of Psychology
Entwicklungspsychologie und Klinische Psychologie der Lebensspanne
Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2a
D-57076 Siegen
Current Projects
- Playdate - Interaction behavior of young children with each other
- You Changed?! - Life events and personality development in adolescence
Contributions to Research and Teaching
Education
- 12/2015
Ph.D. (Dr. phil.) in Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany - 05/2007
Master of Arts in Cultural Sciences (Linguistics and “Language-Culture-Identity”), European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany - 07/2003 – 12/2003
Study Abroad, Universidad Católica de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina, Courses in Linguistics, Psycholinguistics and Spanish, project on grammar acquisition at school - 09/2004
Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Sciences (Linguistics and Comparative Social Sciences), European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
Academic Positions
- since 04/2020
Senior Researcher (Akademische Rätin), Chair of Developmental Psychology and Clinical Psychology across the Life Span (Prof. Dr. Simon Forstmeier), Department of Psychology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Siegen, Germany. Three projects and head of the infant and child observation laboratory pfiffikäuzchen siegen - 03/2018 – 03/2020
Research Associate (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), Chair of Psychological Methods (Prof. Dr. Maike Luhmann), Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, coordinator of the What’s NEXT? study on life events and personality - 10/2015 – 02/2018
Research Associate (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), Chair of Developmental Psychology (Prof. Dr. Birgit Leyendecker), Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, SIMCUR study on immigrant children, adolescents, and families - 02/2015 – 07/2015
Part-time parental leave (Teilzeit-Elternzeit), reduced research activity - 10/2013 – 01/2015
Maternity protection period and parental leave (Mutterschutz und Elternzeit) - 06/2012 – 06/2013
Maternity protection period and parental leave (Mutterschutz und Elternzeit) - 10/2010 – 07/2011
Care-time period (Pflegezeit), reduced research activity - 10/2008 – 06/2014
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Research Associate), Chair of Developmental Psychology (Prof. Dr. Arnold Lohaus), Faculty of Psychology and Sports Sciences, University of Bielefeld, Germany, coordinator of three projects in the infant and child development laboratory on learning and memory development and face perception - 01/2008 – 09/2008
Proposal writing phase for PhD project - 10/2007 – 12/2007
Research intern, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Prof. Dr. Michael Tomasello), Leipzig, Germany. Studies on cognitive and social development - 09/2007 – 10/2007
Research intern, Lincoln Infant and Child Development Lab (Prof. Dr. Kerstin Meints), School of Psychology, College of Social Sciences, Lincoln University, Lincoln, UK. Project of trust development (Prof. Dr. Paul Harris, Harvard University) - 07/2007 – 09/2007
Research intern, Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group (Prof. Dr. Núria Sebastián Gallés & Dr. Ferrán Pons), Universidad de Barcelona, Barelona, Spain. Studies on monolongual and bilingual language acquisition in infancy. - 06/2007
Research Associate, Lincoln Infant and Child Development Lab (Prof. Dr. Kerstin Meints), School of Psychology, College of Social Sciences, Lincoln University, Lincoln, UK. Project of trust development (Prof. Dr. Paul Harris, Harvard University) - 01/2004 – 12/2005
Research Assistant, International Office, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. Exchange programs and contracts with Latin America and Spain. - 08/2002 – 06/2003
Student Assistant, Chair of Descriptive Linguistics and Interlingual Sociolinguistics (Prof. Dr. Harald Weydt), European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany.
Professional Affiliations and Commissions
- 11/2022 – 12/2023
American Psychological Association (APA) - since 10/2021
Founding member of the Siegener Open Science Initiative (SOPSI) - since 06/2021
Network of Women and Gender Research Northrhine Westfalia (Netzwerk Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung NRW) - 05/2021 – 12/2022
Association for Research in Personality - 03/2021 – 10/2021
Mid-level faculty representative in the council of faculty II, Education-Architecture-Arts, University of Siegen (I passed the position to my deputy because the Department of Psychology was moved to another faculty) - 10/2020
Co-author of the German Psychological Association’s (DGPs) statement on the draft law to strengthen children and adolescents - 07/2019 – 12/2019
Accepted for the 6th Global Young Faculty of the University Alliance Ruhr upon suggestion by the rectorate of the Ruhr University Bochum (I left the excellence network once I knew I would leave Ruhr University Bochum for University of Siegen) - 06/2018 – 09/2019
Interim Treasurer, Section Developmental Psychology (EPSY) of the German Psychological Association (DGPs) - 10/2017 – 03/2020
Mid-level faculty representative in the council of the faculty of Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum (until I left Ruhr University Bochum) - 11/2017 – 11/2019
Participant of the program mentoring³ for female postdocs, University Alliance Ruhr - 09/2017 – 09/2019
Young Scientists representative, Section Developmental Psychology (EPSY) of the German Psychological Association (DGPs) - 03/2017 – 08/2017
Member of the Appeals Board, full professorship in Developmental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum - since 03/2016
German Psychological Association (DGPs) and Section Developmental Psychology - 2010 – 2013 and 2020
International Congress of Infant Studies