Dr. Dipl.-Psych. Elisa Merkel

Managing the FP7 Marie Curie-Sklodowska Cofund IKPP (budget: 2.3Mio €) - Management of finances & fellows’ recruitment and employment - Diversity management - Management of deliverables & milestones for the European Commission - Contact person for the EC - Stakeholder management & organizazion of meetings - Writing proposals & reports - Maintanance of the IKPP homepage

Continuing research projects, publishing scientific articles and book chapters on gender, cognition, language and diversity in collaboration with the University of Padua, Italy

Supervision of a web-based course on the "Sociopsychology of Diversity (Psychologie und Sozio-kulturelle Vielfalt"​); Authoring of the course material (including chapters on sexual orientation, impairment, social class and gender); Face-to-face lectures on research methods and introduction to psychology; Supervision of students' theses.

Phd in Social Psychology in the Marie-Curie Network on “Language, Cognition and Gender (ITN-LCG)” under the supervision of Prof. Anne Maass. Thesis “The two faces of gender-fair language”. Teaching of the course “Social Cognition” (B.A) in the years 2011 - 2012. Included in this period are 2 stays as a guest researcher at the Universities of Mannheim and Bern.

5 days course on "Scientific Project Management" (Projektmanagement im Forschungskontext)

How does language affect gender stereotypes and social cognition? Thesis: "The two faces of gender-fair laguage"

Basic training in Mediation, Conflict Management, Non Violent Communication

Clinical & Rehabilitation Psychology, Educational Psychology