Heinrich Liesefeld

CV

Short CV:

• September 2023: Promotion to Senior Researcher (tenured)
• October 2021-September 2022: Organizer und co-speaker of the research group Handling Visual Distraction at the Center for Advanced Studies of LMU Munich
• since November 2020: Researcher for Applied Statistics and Cognitive Modeling at the University of Bremen (tenure track)
• November 2013-October 2020: PostDoc/Akademischer Rat a.Z. at the chair of General and Experimental Psychology at LMU Munich
• May 2020: Habilitation  with Venia Legendi in Psychology at LMU Munich
• October 2019-July 2020: Fellow in Residence of the ZiF Research Group Cognitive Behavior of Humans, Animals, and Machines: Situation Model Perspectives at the Center for Integrative Research (ZiF), Bielefeld University, Hosts: Werner X. Schneider and Helge Ritter
• November 2014: Visiting Researcher at the School of Psychological Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel, Host: Marius Usher
• June 2008-May 2013: PhD student/PostDoc at the chair of General Psychology and Methods at Saarland University, supervisor: Hubert D. Zimmer
• September 2010 - January 2011: Visiting Researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Host: Xiaolan Fu
• October 2012: PhD in the International Research Training Group (IRTG) GRK 1457 Adaptive Minds at Saarland University; summa cum laude; awards for IRTG’s and department’s best thesis
• May 2008: Diplom(equivalent to master's degree)in Psychology from Saarland University
• 2007: Student Assistant at the chair of Differential Psychology at Saarland University
• Winter term 2005/Summer term 2006: Studied Chinese at East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
• Summer term 2005: Studied Cognitive Sciences and Psychology at the Université Nancy2, France
• 2003-2005: Student Assistant at the Center for Evaluation at Saarland University 

Five representative publications (for my full publication list, please click here):

• Constant, M., & Liesefeld, H.R. (2021). Massive effects of saliency on information processing in visual working memory. Psychological Science, 32, 682-691. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797620975785
• Liesefeld, H.R. & Janczyk, M. (2019). Combining speed and accuracy to control for speed-accuracy tradeoffs (?). Behavior Research Methods, 51, 40-60. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-018-1076-x
• Liesefeld, H.R.*, Lamy, D.*,…, Wolfe, J. (2024). Terms of debate: Consensus definitions to guide the scientific discourse on visual distraction. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 86, 1445-1472. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-023-02820-3
• Liesefeld, H.R., & Müller, H.J. (2019). Distractor handling via dimension weighting. Current Opinion in Psychology, 29, 160-167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2019.03.003
• Mandal, A., Liesefeld, A.M., & Liesefeld, H.R. (2024). Tracking the misallocation and reallocation of spatial attention toward auditory stimuli. The Journal of Neuroscience, 44,  e2196232024. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2196-23.2024

Current research projects:

• German Research Foundation (DFG) LI 2868/7-1: "Validating (easy) measures to combine speed and accuracy". Individual research grant together with Markus Janczyk.

 Completed research projects:

• German Research Foundation (DFG): “Guidance and capture of spatial attention by (irrelevant) visual and auditory events”. PhD Project co-supervised by Hermann J. Müller and Benedikt Grothe (both LMU Munich) in the DFG Research Training Group (RTG) 2175 Perception In Context and Its Neural Basis
• German Research Foundation (DFG) LI 2868/3-1: “Understanding visual-working-memory encoding as a visual search for multiple targets”. Individual project in the DFG Research Unit FOR 2293 Active Perception
• LMUexcellent Investment Fund “Distraction in visual working memory” with Hermann J. Müller
• LMUexcellent Junior Research Grant “Selective processing of visual information” 

Teaching experience:

• Methods/Statistics: lecture and tutorial on statistics, empirical research practicum, electroencephalography, data analysis (with R), (neuro-)computational modeling (with Matlab), internships 
• General Psychology/Neurosciences: lectures on working memory, motivation, emotion, biological psychology, perception, motor skills, somatosensory system
• Study Programs: MSc Psychology (LMU), MSc Neurosciences (LMU), MSc Neuro-Cognitive Psychology (LMU), BSc Psychology (LMU), Minor in Psychology (LMU), BSc Psychology (Bremen), MSc Psychology (Bremen), Graduate School for Systemic Neurosciences (LMU)

Scientific coordination:

• Co-speaker of the Center for Advanced Studies^LMU Research Group Handling Visual Distraction; speaker: Hermann J. Müller (October 2021-September 2022)
• Organization and Chair of the closing conference of the Research Group Handling Visual Distraction with Hermann J. Müller (July 2022)
• Organization of the Munich Symposium on Visual Working Memory with Hermann J. Müller (July 2017) 

Editorial roles:

• Cortex: Associate Editor (2026), Consulting Editor (2025)
• Visual Cognition: Guest Editor ("Handling Visual Distraction", Issue 9-10, 2024; with Dominique Lamy, Jan Theeuwes, and Hermann J. Müller)
• British Journal of Psychology: Guest Editor ("Current Directions in Visual Working Memory Research", Issue 2, 2019; with Hermann J. Müller)

Peer reviewing (^†multiple papers; *co-reviewer; regularly) for:

• >200 reviewed papers for 72 scientific journals, including: Acta Psychologica^†; Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics^†; Behavior Research Methods^†; Biological Psychology; Brain & Cognition^†; Brain Research^†; British Journal of Psychology^†; Cerebral Cortex^†; Cognition^†; Cognitive Psychology; Cortex^†; Experimental Brain Research^†; Human Brain Mapping; Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience^†; Journal of Experimental Psychology: General^†; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance^†; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition^†; Journal of Neuroscience^†; Nature Communications; Nature Human Behaviour; NeuroImage^†; Neuropsychologia^†; PLOS Computational Biology; PLOS ONE^†; PNAS; Psychological Medicine^†; Psychological Science*; Psychonomic Bulletin & Review^†; Psychophysiology^†; Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology^†; Trends in Cognitive Sciences^†; Visual Cognition^†
• Funding bodies: German Research Foundation (DFG)^†, National Science Foundation (NSF)^†, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research^†, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austrian Science Fund