
Curriculum Vitae - Melanie Ring, Dr. phil.
Professional Experience
since 08/2017 | Clinical Psychologist and postdoc |
2016-2017 | Consultant and team manager in Psychology, therapy, and training |
2015-2016 | Councellor for adults with Autism |
2011-2015 | Teaching activity in Psychology |
2010-20111 | Research assistant |
2009-2010 | Research assistant |
2008-2009 | Research assistant |
2008-2009 | Research assistant |
Education & Training
since 2017 | Training in Psychotherapy |
since 2017 | Master of Advanced Studies in Psychotherapy focussing on behavioural therapy |
2011-2017 | PhD in Psychology |
2005-2011 | Diploma in Psychology |
1997-2005 | Highschool diploma (A-Level-Exam) |
Honors and Memberships
since 2017 | Member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Verhaltenstherapie (DGVT) |
since 2016 | Member of the Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft Autismus-Spektrum (WGAS) |
2014-2015 | Student member of the ethics committee of Psychology |
since 2013 | Member of the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) |
2012-2015 | Student representative of the Psychology PhD students |
Additional Qualifications
12/2018 | Certificate in Arzneimittelgesetz (AMG; German drug law) and good clinical practice (GCP) for conducting pharmaceutical studies, Dresden |
12/2018 | Training in the use of the Childhood Autism Rating Scale, Second Edition (CARS-2) |
since 06/2018 | Training to become a therapist in the early autism intervention programme „A-FFIP – Autismusspezifische Therapie im Vorschulalter“, |
11/2015 | Training in Diagnostic and Training of social skills in individuals with autism |
08/2013-02/2015 | Practical training in EEG |
08/2013 | ERP Bootcamp (BBC 2.0) |
02/2016 | Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS-2) Training |
06/2010 | World Health Organisation (WHO) certificate for training in the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) at Technische Universität Dresden |
Research interests
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Learning, memory, relational binding, spatial navigation
- Anxiety
Publications
- Desaunay P, Briant A, Bowler DM, Ring M, Gérardin P, Guénolé F, Eustache F, Parienti JJ, & Guillery-Girard B: Memory in autism spectrum disorder: A meta-analysis of experimental studies, in press, 2019. doi: 10.1037/bul0000225
- Ring M, Bowler DM, Gaigg SB: A physiological marker of recognition memory in adults with autism spectrum disorder? – The pupil old/new effect, Autism Research, 13(4), 627-40, 2019. doi: 10.1002/aur.2251
- Ring M, Gaigg SB, Altgassen M, Barr P, Bowler DM: Allocentric versus egocentric spatial memory in adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 48(6), 2101-11, 2018. doi: 10.1007/s10803-018-3465-5
- Ring M, Gaigg S, Barr P, Bowler DM: Testing allocentric versus egocentric spatial navigation using the watermaze task in humans. 2019, September 27. Retrieved from osf.io/dvfwb
- Ring M, Gaigg SB, de Condappa O, Wiener JM, & Bowler DM: Spatial navigation from same and different directions: The role of executive functions, memory and attention in adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Autism Research, 11(5), 798-810, 2018. doi: 10.1002/aur.1924
- Constable PA, Ring M, Gaigg SB, & Bowler DM: Problem-solving styles in autism spectrum disorder and the development of higher cognitive functions. Autism, 1-12, 2017. doi: 10.1177/1362361317691044
- Ring M, Derwent CLT, Gaigg SB & Bowler DM: Structural learning difficulties implicate altered hippocampal functioning in adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 126(6), 793-804, 2017. doi: 10.1037/abn0000277
- Ring M, Bowler DM, & Gaigg SB: An eye-movement study of explicit and implicit relational memory in adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 47(10), 2981-91, 2017. doi: 10.1007/s10803-017-3212-3
- Semino S, Ring M, Bowler DM, & Gaigg SB: The influence of task demands, verbal ability and executive functions on item and source memory in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 48(1), 184-97, 2017. doi: 10.1007/s10803-017-3299-6
- Ring M, Gaigg SB, & Bowler DM: Relational memory processes in adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Autism Research, 9(1), 97-106, 2016. doi: 10.1002/aur.1493 – highly cited paper year 2016 (ISI Web of Knowledge)
- Ipser A, Ring M, Murphy J, Gaigg SB, & Cook R: Similar exemplar pooling processes underlie the learning of facial identity and handwriting style: Evidence from typical observers and individuals with autism. Neuropsychologia, 85, 169-76, 2016. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.03.017
- Ring M, Gaigg SB, & Bowler DM: Object-location memory in adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Autism Research, 8(5), 609-19, 2015. doi: 10.1002/aur.1478
Conference presentations
Since 2011, I participated in 17 scientific national and international conferences with 12 poster and 5 oral presentations and 1 workshop.
Scholarships
I received about 78.500 EUR (e.g. PhD funding at City, University of London, UK; travel grants from WGAS, Erasmus, Neuroelectrics, INSAR, Experimental Psychology Society Grindley Grant, Autismus Chemnitz e.V. and Gesellschaft der Freunde und Förderer der TU Dresden
Current Responsibilities
- A-FFIP - Multizentrische, randomisierte, kontrollierte Studie des Frankfurter Frühinterventionsprogramms für Kleinkinder und Vorschulkinder mit Autismus-Spektrum-Störung
- ASS & Angst
Contact
Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus
Technische Universität Dresden
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Fetscherstraße 74, 01307 Dresden
0351 458-7126
E-Mail