Ulrike Rimmele

Ulrike Rimmele is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the University of Geneva. She leads the Emotion and Memory Laboratory based at the Interfaculty Center for Gerontology and Vulnerability Studies (CIGEV), focusing on how emotions, stress, and their regulation affect learning and memory processes across the lifespan.

• University of Geneva
• Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
• Emotion and Memory Laboratory
• CIGEV (Interfaculty Center for Gerontology and Vulnerability Studies)

Her research explores emotion-memory interactions through behavioral experiments, psychophysiology, pharmacology, and virtual reality, examining topics like cortisol's role in memory consolidation, aging's impact on emotional memory retrieval, and trauma-related memory regulation. Current projects involve studying physical exercise effects on memory in children, emotional memory construction in older adults, and memory regulation for complex events.

Recent publications analyze stress modulation of memory phases, emotional valence effects on temporal-spatial binding, and interventions for traumatic memory mitigation. The laboratory offers internships and thesis opportunities in these areas.