Prof. Dr. Linda Becker

• Seit 2023: Vertretungsprofessorin für Allgemeine Psychologie an der Vinzenz Pallotti University
• 2019-2023: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Habilitandin) am Lehrstuhl für Gesundheitspsychologie der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
• 2022: Habilitation im Fach Psychologie (Titel der kumulativen Habilitationsschrift: „Biopsychologische Untersuchungen der Wechselwirkung zwischen Stress und kognitiven Funktionen im Zusammenhang von mentaler und physischer Gesundheit“)
• 2022: Vertretungsprofessorin für Allgemeine und Biologische Psychologie an der Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg
• 2018-2019: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Postdoktorandin) am Institut für Sportwissenschaft der Universität Regensburg
• 2017-2018: Stipendiatin eines Postdoktorandinnenstipendiums zur Förderung von Frauen in Forschung und Lehre (FFL)
• 2016-2017: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Postdoktorandin) an der Professur Sportpsychologie der Technischen Universität Chemnitz
• 2016: Promotion im Fach Psychologie (Titel der Dissertationsschrift: „Können Gedächtnisinhalte frühe visuelle Wahrnehmungsprozesse beeinflussen? – Untersuchung des Familiarity-Effekts mit ereigniskorrelierten Potentialen“)
• 2012-2016: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Doktorandin) an der Professur für Psychologie (Allgemeine Psychologie 1 und kognitive Ergonomie) der FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
• 2012: Abschluss als Diplom-Psychologin an der Universität Bremen
• 2008-2011: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für MR-Bildgebung und in vivo-Spektroskopie der Universität Bremen
• 2007: Abschluss als Diplom-Physikerin an der Universität Bremen

• Zusammenhang zwischen psychologischen und biologischen Stressreaktionsmustern und kognitiven Prozessen
• Kognitive Gesundheit
• Digitaler Stress
• Biologische Stressreaktionsmuster bei der Exposition mit unterschiedlichen Stressoren
• Gesundheitliche Folgen von chronischem Stress
• Einfluss von körperlicher Aktivität auf die Gesundheit und Kognition
• Bewegungsinterventionen zum Erhalt der psychischen und physischen Gesundheit

Artikel in Fachzeitschriften (peer-reviewed):

Nieto Alvarez, I., Madl, J., Becker, L., & Amft, O. (2024). Patients’ Experience to MRI Examinations—A Systematic Qualitative Review With Meta-Synthesis. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 1-14, doi: 10.1002/jmri.29365.

Kaltenegger, H. C., Marques, M. D., Becker, L., Rohleder, N., Nowak, D., Wright, B. J., & Weigl, M. (2024). Prospective associations of technostress at work, burnout symptoms, hair cortisol, and chronic low-grade inflammation. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 117, 320–329.

Wannagat, W., Martin, T., Nieding, G., Rohleder, N., & Becker, L. (2024). Media multitasking in younger and older adults – associations with cognitive abilities and biological stress responses, Media Psychology, 1-41, doi: 1080/15213269.2023.2298686.

Madl, J. E. M., Nieto Alvarez, I., Amft, O., Rohleder, N., & Becker, L. (2023). The Psychological, Physiological, and Behavioral Responses of Patients to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI): A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, doi: 10.1002/jmri.29134.

Becker, L., Kaltenegger, H. C., Nowak, D., Weigl., M., & Rohleder, N. (2023). Biological stress responses to multitasking and work interruptions: a randomized controlled trial, Psychoneuroendocrinology, 106358, doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2023.106358.

Becker, L., Kaltenegger, H. C., Nowak, D., Rohleder, N., & Weigl, M. (2023). Differences in stress system (re-)activity between single and dual- or multitasking in healthy adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis, Health Psychology Review, 1-26, doi: 10.1080/17437199.2022.2071323.

Becker, L., Heimerl, A., & André, E. (2023). ForDigitStress: presentation and evaluation of a new laboratory stressor using a digital job interview-scenario, Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1182959.

Kaltenegger, H., Becker, L., Nowak, D., Quartucci, C., & Weigl. M. (2023). Associations of techno-stressors at work with burnout symptoms and chronic low-grade inflammation: A cross-sectional analysis in hospital employees, International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 1-18).

Becker, L., Keck, A., Rohleder, N., & Müller-Voggel, N. (2022). Higher peripheral inflammation is associated with lower orbitofrontal gamma power in chronic tinnitus, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 16, 1-9, doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2022.883926.

Becker, L., Kaltenegger, H. C., Nowak, D., Weigl, M, & Rohleder, N. (2022). Physiological stress in response to multitasking and work interruptions: Study protocol. PLoS ONE 17(2): e0263785, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.026378.

Kaltenegger, H. C., Weigl, M., Becker, L., Rohleder, N., Nowak, D., & Quartucci, C. (2022). Psychosocial working conditions and chronic low-grade inflammation in geriatric care professionals: A cross-sectional study. PLoS ONE, 17(9): e0274202, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0274202.

Rico-Olarte, C., Narváez-Muñoz, N., López, D.M., Becker, L., & Tovar-Ruiz, L.Á. (2022). Assessing HapHop-Physio: An Exer-Learning Game to Support Therapies for Children with Specific Learning Disorders. Appl. Sci., 12, 8281, doi: 10.3390/app12168281.

Becker, L., Dupke, A., & Rohleder, N. (2021). Associations between C-reactive protein levels, exercise addiction, and athlete burnout in endurance athletes, Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 1-6, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.615715.

Becker, L., Semmlinger, L., & Rohleder, N. (2021). Resistance training as an acute stressor in healthy young men: associations with heart rate variability, alpha-amylase, and cortisol levels. Stress, 1-13, doi: 10.1080/10253890.2020.1799193.

Grimm, E., Agrigoroaei, S., Rohleder, N., & Becker, L. (2021). Executive functioning as a predictor of physiological and subjective acute stress responses in non-clinical adult populations: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 131, 1096-1115, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.09.037.

Kaltenegger, H. C., Becker, L., Rohleder, N., Nowak, D., & Weigl, M. (2021). Associations of working conditions and chronic low-grade inflammation among employees: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, doi:10.5271/sjweh.3982.

Britting, S., Kob, R., Sieber, C. C., Rohleder, N., Freiberger, E., & Becker, L. (2021). Physiological stress in safer cycling in older age (SiFAr-stress): effect of a multicomponent exercise intervention—a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials, 22, 552. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-021-05481-5.

Pretscher, A., Kauzner, S., Rohleder, N., & Becker, L. (2021). Associations between social burden, perceived stress, and diurnal cortisol profiles in older adults: implications for cognitive aging, European Journal of Aging, 1-16.

Spiegl, K., Luttenberger, K., Gräßel, E., Becker, L., Scheel, J., & Pendergrass, A. (2021). Predictors of institutionalization in users of day care facilities with mild cognitive impairment to moderate dementia, BMC Health Services Research, 21: 1009, doi: 10.1186/s12913-021-07017-8.

Zika, M. A. & Becker, L. (2021). Physical Activity as a Treatment for Social Anxiety in Clinical and Non-clinical Populations: A Systematic Review and Three Meta-Analyses for Different Study Designs. Front. Hum. Neurosci., 15, 653108. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.653108.

Becker, L. & Rohleder, N. (2020). Associations between Attention and Implicit Associative Learning in Healthy Adults: The Role of Cortisol and Salivary Alpha-Amylase Responses to an Acute Stressor. Brain Sciences, 10(8), 1-20, doi: 10.3390/brainsci10080544.

Becker, L., Ganslandt, T., Prokosch. H.-U., & Newe, A. (2020). Applied Practice and Possible Leverage Points for Information Technology Support for Patient Screening in Clinical Trials: Qualitative Study. JMIR Medical Informatics, 8(6): e15749.

Becker, L., Schade, U., & Rohleder, N. (2020). Activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary adrenal axis in response to a verbal fluency task and associations with task performance. PLoS ONE 15(4): e0227721.

Kaltenegger, H., Becker, L., Rohleder, N., Nowak, D., & Weigl, M. (2020). Association of working conditions including digital technology use and systemic inflammation among employees: study protocol for a systematic review, Systematic Reviews, 9, 1-11, doi: 10.1186/s13643-020-01463-x.

Rico-Olarte, C., López, D. M., Becker, L., & Eskofier, B. (2020). Towards Classifying Cognitive Performance by Sensing Electrodermal Activity in Children with Specific Learning Disorders, IEEE Access, doi: 10.1109/ ACCESS.2020.3033769.

Becker, L. & Rohleder, N. (2019). Time course of the physiological stress response to an acute stressor and its associations with the primacy and recency effect of the serial position curve. PLoS ONE, 14, 1-15, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0213883.

Becker L., Schade, U., Rohleder N. (2019). Evaluation of the socially evaluated cold-pressor group test (SECPT-G) in the general population. PeerJ, 7:e7521.

Becker, L. (2018). Familiarity affects the same event-related brain potential components in note readers and non-note readers. Music & Science, 1, 1-11.

Brandner, J., Newe, A., Aichinger, W., & Becker, L. (2018). An Open Source Tool for Creating Model Files for Virtual Volume Rendering in PDF Documents. Informatik aktuell, 133-138.

Newe, A. & Becker, L. (2018). A Systematic Review of the Three-dimensional Portable Document Format (3D PDF) in Clinical Communication and Biomedical Sciences: Applications, Tools, and Protocols. JMIR Medical Informatics, 6(3):e10295, 1-22.

Becker, L., Smith, D. T., & Schenk, T. (2017). Investigating the familiarity effect in texture segmentation by means of event-related brain potentials. Vision Research, 140, 120-132.

Becker, L., Kutz, D. F., & Voelcker-Rehage, C. (2016). Exercise-induced changes in basal ganglia volume and their relation to cognitive performance. Journal of Neurology & Neuromedicine, 1(5), 19-24.

Newe, A., & Becker, L. (2016). Using Interactive 3D PDF for Exploring Complex Biomedical Data: Experiences and Solutions. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 228, 740-744.

Newe, A., Wimmer, S., Neubert, A., Becker, L., Prokosch, H.-U., Beckmann, M. W., Fietkau, R., Forster, Ch., Neurath, M. F., Schett, G., & Ganslandt, T. (2015). Towards a Computable Data Corpus of Temporal Correlations between Drug Administration and Lab Value Changes. PLoS ONE, 10(8): e0136131. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0136131.

Newe, A., Becker, L., & Schenk, A. (2014). Application and evaluation of interactive 3D PDF for presenting and sharing planning results for liver surgery in clinical routine. PLoS ONE, 9(12): e115697. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0115697.

Paskova, T., Becker, L., Böttcher, T. B., Hommel, D., Paskov, P. P., & Monemar, B. (2007). Bending in HVPE grown GaN films: Origin and reduction possibilities. Physica Status Solidi, 4, 2256-2259.

Paskova, T., Becker, L., Böttcher, T. B., Hommel, D., Paskov, P. P., & Monemar, B. (2007). Effect of sapphire-substrate thickness on the curvature of thick GaN films grown by hydride vapor phase epitaxy. Journal of Applied Physics, 102, 123507-1-123507-4.

 

Konferenzbeiträge (Proceedings, Auswahl):

Simon, J., Beck, C., Rathmann, J., André, E., Becker, L., Can, Y., Heimerl, A., Mahesh, B., Rohleder, N., & Seiderer, A. (2023). Climate and health effects of different urban forest structures. No. EGU23-6927, Copernicus Meetings.

Heimerl, A., Becker, L., Schiller, D., Baur, T., Wildgrube, F., Rohleder, N., & André, E. (2022). We’ve never been eye to eye: A Pupillometry Pipeline for the Detection of Stress and Negative Affect in Remote Working Scenarios, Proceedings of the 15^th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA 2022).

Heimerl, A., Mertes, S., Schneeberger, T., Baur, T., Liu, A., Becker, L., Rohleder, N., Gebhard, P., André, E. (2022). Generating Personalized Behavioral Feedback for a Virtual Job Interview Training System through Adversarial Learning, In: Rodrigo, M.M., Matsuda, N., Cristea, A.I., Dimitrova, V. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Education. AIED 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13355. Springer, Cham.

 

Pre-Prints:

Heimerl, A., Prajod, P., Mertes, S., Baur, T., Kraus, M., Liu, A., Risack, H., Rohleder, N., André, E., & Becker, L. (2023). ForDigitStress: A multi-modal stress dataset employing a digital job interview scenario. arXiv preprint, arXiv:2303.07742.

Heimerl, A., Mertes, S., Schneeberger, T., Baur, T., Liu, A., Becker, L., Rohleder, N., Gebhard, P., & André, E. (2022). “GAN I hire you?”–A System for Personalized Virtual Job Interview Training. arXiv preprint, arXiv:2206.03869.

 

Buchkapitel (Auswahl):

Becker, L., Rohleder, N., & Schultheiss, O. (2023). Salivary Hormone Assays. In: Cooper, H. (ed.) APA Handbook Of Research Methods In Psychology, 2^nd edition.

2023: Habilitationspreis der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

2022: Best Paper Award: Heimerl, Becker et al. (2022): We’ve never been eye to eye: A Pupillometry Pipeline for the Detection of Stress and Negative Affect in Remote Working Scenarios, 15th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments.

2020: Förderung durch die Emerging Talents Initiative (ETI) der FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

2017: Postdoktorandinnenstipendium zur Förderung von Frauen in Forschung und Lehre (FFL)

• American Psychosomatic Society (APS)
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs)
• Deutsche Vereinigung für Sportwissenschaft (dvs)
• International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology (ISPNE)
• PsychoNeuroImmunology Research Society (PNIRS)

• Allgemeine Psychologie 1 (1. Semester, B.Sc. Psychologie)
• Allgemeine Psychologie 2 (2. Semester, B.Sc. Psychologie)
• Forschungspraktikum (3. Semester, B.Sc. Psychologie)