Elke van der Meer

Prof. Dr. sc. nat. Elke van der Meer is a Senior Professor at the Institute of Psychology, Humboldt University of Berlin. With a career spanning over four decades, she has made significant contributions to cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, and temporal perception research. Her work integrates psychometrics, behavioral experiments, and neuroimaging techniques like fMRI and ERP to explore event knowledge, attention mechanisms, and differential psychological aspects in conditions such as Parkinson's and dyslexia.

• Education: Diploma in Psychology (1974), Humboldt University of Berlin; Dr. rer. nat. (1979) on analogy recognition; Habilitation (1983) on concept knowledge usage.
• Research: Focuses on knowledge representation, psychological time processing, and environmental perception. Key methodologies include pupillometry, eye tracking, and neural connectivity studies.
• Publications: 15 most recent works span pitch discrimination, temporal focus scales, analogical reasoning, and migration-related delinquency studies. Her research bridges cognitive science with urban ecology and educational psychology.
• Leadership: Served as Managing Director of the Institute (2004-2006), Principal Investigator in multiple graduate programs, and held editorial roles in key psychology journals.