Maleen Thiele
Senior Scientist | Group Leader
Abteilung für Vergleichende Kulturpsychologie
Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
Telefon: +49 (0) 341 3550 403
E-Mail:
maleen_thiele@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Research Interests
I'm a psychologist interested in the developmental foundations of human social learning. In my doctoral research, I studied how preverbal infants attend to social interactions between others, how their own intrinsic motivations shape their attentional orienting, and how they come to use social partners to learn about their environment. During my postdoc, we initiated a comparative project currently investigating how joint attention influences early memory stages of object-related learning across great ape species.
Since 2023, I am leading the Minerva Fast Track Group "Facets of Early Social Learning", which focuses on observational social learning and visual attention orienting. The methodological focus of the group is on refining eye-tracking technology for its application with non-human great apes and in remote field settings.
Curriculum Vitae
Career
| Since 11/2023 | Senior Scientist | Group Leader |
| 11/2021 - 11/2023 | Postdoctoral Researcher |
| 06/2020 - 11/2021 | Phd Student |
| 08/2018 - 12/2018 | Visiting Researcher |
| 12/2016 - 05/2020 | PhD Student | Research Associate |
Education
| 12/2016 - 11/2021 | Dr. rer. nat. Psychology |
| 10/2014 - 10/2016 | M. Sc. Psychology |
| 10/2010 - 10/2013 | B. Sc. Psychology |
Languages
- German (native speaker)
- English (fluent)
- French (basic)
Research Awards & Funding
11/2023 - 11/2026 | Minerva Fast Track Fellowship |
2022 | Outstanding Dissertation Award |
| 08/2018 - 12/2018 | Scholarship for Guest Researchers |
Publications
