Merle Marek
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Merle Marek
Research Interests
- Self-regulation development
- Consequences of preterm birth
- Brain-behaviour association
- Statistical modelling of longitudinal data
- Neural reward processing and hypothalamic obesity
- Signee of the OSIG Commitment to research transparency
Academic positions
| Since November 2022 | Equal Opportunities Officer of Faculty VI Medicine and Health Sciences |
Since July 2021 | Scientific Researcher at the Department of Psychology, Division for Psychological Methods and Statistics, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg |
| 02/2019 – 02/2021 | Research Assistant at the Department of Psychology, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg |
Education
Since July 2021 | PhD student (Supervisor Prof. Dr. Andrea Hildebrandt) |
10/2018 - 05/2021 | Master of Science at the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg; Master Thesis: Hypothalamic Obesity in Craniopharyngioma Patients: Energy Regulation and Neural Responses to Food Cues |
09/2014 - 07/2017 | Bachelor of Science at the University of Groningen, Netherlands; Bachelor Thesis: The Effects of Prolonged Driving in a Driving Simulator on Vigilance in Two Age Groups, Compared to the Psychomotor Vigilance Task; and on Response-Frequencies to Traffic Signs |
Publications
Marek, M. J., Heep, A., & Hildebrandt, A. (2025). The measurement of self-regulation in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study. PLoS One, 20(5), e0322795.
Kristanto, D., Gießing, C., Marek, M., Zhou, C., Debener, S., Thiel, C., & Hildebrandt, A. (2023). An Extended Active Learning Approach to Multiverse Analysis: Predictions of Latent Variables from Graph Theory Measures of the Human Connectome and Their Direct Replication. In 2023 Guardians Workshop (Guardians) (pp. 1-13). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.48085/J962E0F53
Awards
PhD scholarship from the Heinz Neumüller Stiftung, January until December 2025
Research scholarship for PhD-students from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), August until October 2023