Nico Remmert

Nico Remmert serves as a Research Assistant at the Department of Education and Psychology, Methods and Evaluation/Quality Assurance unit of Freie Universität Berlin under Prof. Dr. Steffi Pohl since February 2021. Concurrently pursuing a PhD in Psychology since 2021, his work bridges statistical methodology and clinical psychology.

His educational background includes:

• Bachelor's in Psychology (2014-2018, Freie Universität Berlin)
• Master's in Psychology: Clinical and Health Psychology (2018-2020, Freie Universität Berlin)
• Master's in Statistics (since 2020, Humboldt-Universität Berlin)

Research focuses on psychometric innovation in misophonia assessment and clinical avoidance behavior modeling. Key contributions include developing the Berlin Misophonia Questionnaire (BMQ-R) and pioneering methods using missing responses/response times to quantify avoidance. Current work integrates Item Response Theory with latent-state-trait models for clinical diagnostics.

His publication pattern reveals concentrated expertise in sound intolerance disorders and missing data methodology, with 6 major outputs between 2022-2023 spanning questionnaire validation, avoidance behavior modeling, and misophonia networks.

Award highlights:

• Misophonia Student Research Grant from soQuiet (2023)
• Incentive Funds for Research Implementation (2022)

As a Research Assistant, he secures competitive funding while teaching statistics/diagnostics courses since 2021. International collaborations include research stays at King's College London with Silia Vitoratou's Psychometrics and Measurement Lab, supported by Misophonia Research Fund participation.

Embedded in Prof. Pohl's research group, he contributes to the Methods and Evaluation/Quality Assurance team's mission in advancing psychological assessment techniques through rigorous statistical approaches.