email: mareen [dot] weber [at] gmail [dot] com
Research interests
- Neuropsychology of neurological disorders in general and traumatic brain injury (TBI) in particular
- Sleep and TBI
- Relationship between brain activity and behaviour
- Lay perception of brain injuries
Research
2011-present
Postdoctoral research fellow (Harvard Medical School, Neuroimaging Center, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, USA)
2007-2010
Postgraduate researcher (Psy-NAPS lab, School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom)
Title of thesis: The neuropsychology of sport concussion
Supervisors: Dr Martin G Edwards, Prof Chris Ring
Examiners: Prof Doug Carroll (University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK) and Prof Edward de Haan (Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
2006-2007
Neurophysiological research internship at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Laboratory of Higher Brain Function, Beijing, China
2001-2002
M.Sc. thesis on gender differences in post-traumatic stress disorder in children and adolescents following road traffic accidents (Friedich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Germany)
Clinical experience
2002-2005
Psychologist at the department of neuropsychology at neurological rehabilitation centres in Germany
Teaching experience
2009-2010
Associate lecturer for Biological Psychology at the Open University, United Kingdom
2007-2009
Supervision of four undergraduate research projects on sport-related mild traumatic brain injury/ concussion (School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom)
2008-2010
Lead demonstrator for undergraduate student practicals on sport-related mild traumatic brain injury/ concussion (School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom)
Administration
2009
University of Birmingham College of Life and Environmental Sciences PhD student rep
2008-2009
Co-ordinator of Psy-NAPS lab meetings (School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom)
Skills
- OS: Mac, Windows
- Experimental programming/ data collection: E-Prime, PsyScope
- Statistical analysis: Excel, FSL, R, SigmaPlot, SPM, SPSS
- Text processing: Word, LaTeX
- Languages: German (native speaker), English (fluent), Spanish (intermediate), working knowledge of Mandarin Chinese, Dutch, Russian and French
Grants
2010
Grindley Travel Grant of the Experimental Psychological Society (EPS) (£500) for the attendance of the 8th World Congress on Brain Injury in Washington, USA
2009
Brain Travel Grant (£800) for the attendance of the MTBI 2009 An International Conference in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Vancouver, Canada
2008
Brain Travel Grant (£700) for the attendance of the 7th World Congress on Brain Injury in Lisbon, Portugal
2007 - 2010
University of Birmingham School of Sport and Exercise Sciences PhD scholarship
Conference presentations
2010
- Weber, M. & Edwards, M.G. Does terminology influence participant response to sport head injury?, poster presented at the 8th World Congress on Brain Injury, 11-15 March 2010, Washington, USA.
- Weber, M., Jansari, A., Ring, C. & Edwards, M.G. Do executive function and aggression influence sport concussion?, poster presented at the 8th World Congress on Brain Injury, 11-15 March 2010, Washington, USA.
2009
- Weber, M. & Edwards, M.G. Perception of head injuries in sport: The wording matters!, Poster presented at the MTBI 2009 An International Conference on Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, 12-15 August 2009, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
2008
- Weber, M. & Edwards, M.G. Frontal executive function following concussion: A need to modify assessment?, Poster presented at the 7th World Congress in Brain Injury, 9-12 April 2008, Losbon, Portugal.
- Weber, M. & Edwards, M.G. Late outcome psychological measures following concussion, poster presented at the 1st Meeting of the Federation of the European Neuropsychological Societies, 2-5 September 2008, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Publications
Published abstracts
Weber, M. & Edwards, M.G. (2008). Frontal executive function following concussion: A need to modify assessment? Brain Injury 22 (Supp1), 189.
Weber, M. & Edwards, M.G. (2010). Does terminology influence participant response to sport head injury? Brain Injury 24 (3), 296.
Weber, M., Ring, C., Jansari, A. & Edwards, M.G. (2010). Do aggression and executive function influence sport concussion? Brain Injury 24 (3), 299.
Peer-reviewed articles
Weber, M. & Edwards, M.G. (2010) The effect of brain injury terminology on university athletes' expected outcome from injury, familiarity and actual symptom report. Brain Injury 24 (11), 1364-1371.
Under review
Weber, M. & Edwards. M.G. Sport concussion knowledge in the UK general public.
Weber, M., Francis, M. & Edwards, M.G. Considering executive function following sport concussion: Further evidence on the unsuitability of group analyses in sport concussion research.