Benedikt Emanuel Wirth, PhD student Curriculum Vitae

Benedikt Emanuel Wirth, PhD student
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Curriculum Vitae –––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Name:
Benedikt Emanuel Wirth
Nationality:
German
Date of Birth:
02 August 1987
E-Mail:
[email protected]
Office Address:
Saarland University
International Research Training Group "Adaptive Minds"
Department of Psychology
Campus Building A1 7, Room -1.13
D-66123 Saarbrücken
Education ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
10/2011-03/2014
M.Sc. in Psychology, University of Bamberg (1.1 – “very good”); title of thesis: “Experts for
unfamiliar face matching? Comparing performance in passport photograph matching
between naive persons and police officers”
10/2008-08/2011
B.Sc. in Psychology, University of Bamberg (1.2 – “very good”); title of thesis: “Face
matching with high ecological validity: Simulating common passport controls”
06/2007
Abitur (A levels), Dante-Gymnasium München (1.2 – “very good”)
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Career / Employment –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Since 04/2014
PhD student at the International Research Training Group (IRTG) “Adaptive Minds”,
Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dirk Wentura)
11/2013-03/2014
Research intern at the Brain & Behaviour Lab, Birkbeck College, University of London (Head:
Prof. Dr. Martin Eimer)
04/2009-10/2013
Student researcher at the Department of General Psychology and Methodology, University of
Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany (Head: Prof. Dr. Claus-Christian Carbon)
Scientific Publications ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Carbon, C.-C., & Wirth, B. E. (2014). Neanderthal paintings? Production of prototypical
human (Homo sapiens) faces shows systematic distortions. Perception, 43(1), 99–102.
doi:10.1068/p7604
Wirth, B. E., & Carbon, C.-C. (2012). Matching unfamiliar faces under ecological conditions:
Factors of stimulus similarity and feature exchange. Perception, 41(ECVP Supplement), 101.
doi:10.1068/v120498
Wirth, B. E., & Carbon, C.-C. (2010). How do prototypes of visual objects develop and
establish? Exemplars perceived early in life might have an essential influence. Perception,
39(ECVP Supplement), 129. doi:10.1068/v100280
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