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Legal name: Hannah May (since 2025; publishing as Hannah Metzler)

Education summary

2024-now Postgraduate education for Clinical Psychology, WIKIP (Viennese Academy for Clinical Psychology), Vienna
2022-2023 Foundational Training in Psychotherapy (“Psychotherapeutisches Propädeutikum”), ARGE Bildungsmanagement, Vienna
2014-2018 PhD in Social Neuroscience at Sorbonne University & École Normale Supérieure Paris, supervised by Julie Grèzes
Graduate Program at École des Neurosciences Paris-Île de-France
2007-2013 Diploma program in Psychology at University of Vienna
Master thesis supervised by Eva-Maria Seidel & Claus Lamm
2011 Exchange semester at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
2003-2007 Conservatory of Vorarlberg, Violoncello, Feldkirch, Austria

2020-2025 Postdoctoral researcher and project lead at Complexity Science Hub
2020-2025 Postdoctoral researcher and project lead at Center for Medical Data Science, Medical University in Vienna
- 2020-2022 10% @ Graz University of Technology
- 2020-2022 50% @ Unit Suicide Research and Mental Health Promotion
2019–2020 Senior researcher and project manager @ Open and Reproducible Research Group at Know-Center - Research Center for Data-Driven Business & Big Data Analytics, Graz
2019 Independent researcher at the Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education - IGDORE
2014-2018 Doctoral researcher at the Laboratory of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience in the team of Julie Grèzes, École Normale Supérieure Paris
2013-2014 Lab rotations during the first year of the ENP Doctoral program
- Sexual cognition & homosexuality: Brain anatomy and the older brother-effect, École Normale Supérieure, with Franck Ramus
- Integration of emotion and gaze cues during attention orienting (Intracranial EEG study), Brain & Spine Institute, with Nathalie George
- Power posture effects on emotion discrimination, École Normale Supérieure, with Julie Grèzes
2012 Internship (10 months) at the Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit, University of Vienna, with Eva-Maria Seidel

2024-2025 Mastering AI Chatbots: Optimizing Research through Effective Use, LBG Career Center 16h) & Karl-Landsteiner University Krems (14h)
2024-2025 Data analysis for beginners in R, LBG Career Center (16h)
2021-2024 Introduction to Computational Social Science, Cognitive Science Lecture Series, Cognitive Science Master, University of Vienna (16h)
2020-now Supervision or co-supervision of 2 PhD theses, 3 Master theses, 8 Master internships & 1 Bachelor internship. Areas: Computational Social Science, Psychology, Data Science.
2023 Digital tools for the research process, LBG Career Center (8h)
2021-2022 Digitalisation in Research with Jana Lasser, LBG Career Center & WU Executive Academy (32h)
2015 - 2017 Co-Supervision of 2 Bachelor and 2 Master student interns during PhD
2015-2016 Teaching assistant at École Normale Supérieure, Master for Cognitive Science (48h) in the courses Introduction to cognitive science and neuroscience & Improving scientific practices

2023 Second prize & $400 award in The Unjournal’s Evaluation Prize (my review)
2021 Digital Humanism Project Grant: Emotional Misinformation - The Interplay of Emotion and Misinformation Spreading on Social Media. WWTF, Principal Investigator, Collaborators: Annie Waldherr & David Garcia, Amount 400k€
2018 End of thesis scholarship (3 months) from the Department of Cognitive Science, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, 7k€
2013–2017 4 year PhD scholarship from École des Neurosciences Paris Île-de-France 150k€
2013 Honorary certificate for excellent diploma thesis, Dr. Maria-Schaumayer-Stiftung, Austria
2013 Nomination for the honorary prize in science and research 2013, Austrian ministry for science and research
2007–2013 6 excellence scholarships from University of Vienna, 3.5k€
2011 Joint Study scholarship from University of Vienna for an exchange semester in Montreal, Canada, 2k€

Associate editor for social psychology at Collabra: Psychology (Journal of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science)
Peer-review: Reviewer profile
- Scientific Advances, Perspectives in Psychological Science, Scientific Reports, Emotion, The Unjournal, Plos One, Journal of Trial and Error, International Journal of Psychology
- International Conference on Web Social Media, Network Science Society Conference, The Web Conference 2021 & 2022
- Collaborative assessment of replicability & credibility of social science research at RepliCATS 2020 & 2021
Event organization:
- 2021: Conference session on Improving interdisciplinary peer review at SIPS
- 2019 - 2021: Organizing symposia (No 31, 34, 35) for WISIA (Women in Science)
- 2015-2016: ENP student representative. Event organization and communication: Scientific seminars, career events and social activities for PhD students
Policy consulting: Member of expert group for life quality and vulnerable subgroups during the COVID-19 pandemic, Think Austria, Future Operations Austria, March-October 2020

2024-now Clinical Psychologist in training
2023-now Foundational Training in Psychotherapy (Psychotherapeutisches Propädeutikum), ARGE Bildungsmanagement Vienna
2018 Certificate in Business Administration & Project Management, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris (3 weeks).

2023 - now Guest researcher at the University of Konstanz
Vice president of Women in Science – an Interdisciplinary Association - WISIA
Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science - SIPS
Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education - IGDORE
Member of the Effective Altruism community Austria, board member in 2022, treasurer 2022-2023: A social movement that uses evidence and reason to do the most good - Effective Altruism Global