Lars Penke

• 07/2011:
  Habilitation in psychology at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
• since 01/2011:
  Lecturer at the Department of Psychology of the University of Edinburgh, UK
• since 12/2008:
  Associate member of the Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology (CCACE, Director: Prof. Dr. Ian J. Deary) at the Department of Psychology of the University of Edinburgh, UK (funded by the BBSRC, EPSRC, ESRC und MRC)
• 02/2008-12/2010:
  Post-doctoral research fellow in the Disconnected Mind project (PI: Prof. Dr. Ian J. Deary) at the Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, UK (funded by the Medical Research Council)
• 02/2006-07/2007:
  Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter [pre-doctoral researcher] in the DFG-funded project "Implicit and explicit sociosexuality in the context of Quickdating (speed-dating)" (PI: Prof. Dr. Jens B. Asendorpf) at the Institute of Psychology, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
• 10/2004-07/2007:
  External Fellow, International Max Planck Research School "The Life Course: Evolutionary and Ontogentic Dynamics" (LIFE)
• 04/2004-07/2007:
  Graduate student of psychology at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
• 02/2004-01/2006:
  Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter [pre-doctoral researcher] in the DFG-funded project "Evolved implicit representations and automatic behavioral tendencies: Sociosexuality and jealousy" (PI: Prof. Dr. Jens B. Asendorpf) at the Institute of Psychology, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
• 10/1999-11/2003:
  Study of psychology at the University of Bielefeld, Germany (diploma with distinction)
• Born on 2 September 1978 in Detmold, Germany

 Grants and awards

• 2011-2014:
  Medical Research Council Research Grant "Brain white matter imaging and cognitive ageing in the Lothian Birth Cohort of 1936: II" (with Prof. Dr. Ian J. Deary (PI), Dr. Mark Bastin, Prof. Dr. John M. Starr and Prof. Dr. Joanna M. Wardlaw), £808,224.
• 2011:
  PPLS Pilot Grant for the symmetry lab (PI), £1,658.
• 2010:
  Infrastructur Grant for establishing a symmetry lab (PI, with Prof. Dr. Timothy C. Bates and Prof. Dr. Ian J. Deary), £78,000.
• 2009:
  British Academy Overseas Conference Grant part-funded attendance at ISSID 2009 (International Society for the Study of Individual Differences), in Evanston, USA, £500.
• 2007:
  Award for the best publication in the European Journal of Personality based on a Ph.D. or Master/Diploma thesis for "The evolutionary genetics of personality", £250.
• 2006:
  Travel grant from the Personality Psychology and Psychological Assessment section of the German Society for Psychology, funding attendance of the summer school "Hierarchical Linear Modeling" in Syros, Greece.

Memberships

• Scientific network "Personality and Social Relationships: Current State and Perspectives" (PERSOC), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
• Scottish Imaging Network – A Platform for Scientific Excellence (SINAPSE)
• Faculty of 1000: Biology (F1000), associate member
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (German Society for Psychology DGPs)
Branch Personality Psychology and Psychological Assessment (DPPD)
Branch Social Psychology (FGSP)
• European Association of Personality Psychology (EAPP)
• British Society for the Psychology of Individual Differences (BSPID)
• Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES)
• European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association (EHBEA)
• Menschliches Verhalten unter evolutionärer Perspektive (MVE)
• Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™ (LFHCfS)