Ulrike Rimmele

Ulrike Rimmele serves as Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences (FPSE) of the University of Geneva since 2020, leading the Emotion and Memory Laboratory. Her research program investigates how emotional states, stress responses, and regulatory mechanisms influence memory processes across developmental stages from childhood to old age.

Her academic training includes a Master's degree in Neural and Behavioral Sciences from the University of Tübingen and a Doctorate in Psychology from the University of Zurich, where her dissertation focused on protective factors against stress. She subsequently completed postdoctoral research at New York University examining emotional influences on memory consolidation and retrieval.

Rimmele's work integrates cognitive psychology, affective neuroscience, and developmental methodologies to analyze how emotional valence modulates episodic memory formation. Her research employs behavioral experiments, neuroimaging techniques, and longitudinal assessments to explore individual differences in emotional memory processing across the lifespan, with particular attention to stress-induced cognitive alterations.

Her primary scientific recognition includes the prestigious Ambizione grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation, which supported her investigation into emotion-memory interactions at the University of Geneva's Department of Neuroscience prior to her faculty appointment.

Rimmele directs the Emotion and Memory Laboratory within FPSE, where her team conducts interdisciplinary research on emotional influences on cognitive performance. Current projects examine neural correlates of emotion regulation during memory tasks using fMRI and EEG methodologies, alongside behavioral studies on stress resilience in educational contexts.