Curriculum

Monika Tschense is a postdoctoral researcher in the group for Research Methods at the Institute of Sustainability Psychology. Her research addresses various topics at the intersection of psychology and linguistics, including reading competence and the processing of gender-fair language. This involves the use of various empirical methods, such as eye tracking, EEG, actigraphy, reaction time measurements, and surveys. Nonlinear time series analyses, in particular recurrence quantification analysis and fractal analysis, constitute an important methodological component of her work.

Since July 2025, Monika Tschense is also working at the Graduate School, where she implements and coordinates training opportunities and events for PhD candidates regarding career perspectives and respective competences, mental health, and social background (i.e., first generation academics).

Appointments

Since 07/2025: Administrator for Competence Development
Graduate School, Leuphana University of Lüneburg

Since 01/2021: Research Associate
Group for Research Methods, Institute of Sustainability Psychology, Leuphana University of Lüneburg

01/2021 – 12/2021: Visiting Researcher
Research Group for Neurocognition of Music and Language, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main

11/2018 – 12/2020: Research Associate
Department of Language and Literature, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main

05/2017 – 07/2018: Research Associate
Group for Clinical Linguistics, Institute of German Linguistics, Philipps University of Marburg

06/2016 – 05/2017: Research Assistant
Department of Language and Literature, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main

10/2013 – 08/2014: Tutor
Institute of Linguistics, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

04/2013 –08/2014: Student Assistant
Group for German as Second Language, Institute of Psycholinguistics, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

Education

11/2018 – 02/2024: Doctorate (PhD) in Psychology
Leuphana University of Lüneburg & Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main

10/2015 – 04/2019: Master of Arts in Linguistics: Cognition and Communication
Philipps University of Marburg

10/2014 – 03/2017: Master of Arts in Clinical Linguistics
Philipps University of Marburg

10/2011 – 09/2014: Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics
Goethe University Frankfurt am Main