Klara Hermes

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Office: Markusplatz 3, Room: M3N/01.31, 96047 Bamberg, Germany

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E-Mail: klara.hermes(at)uni-bamberg.de
Phone: +49 (0)951/863-1896

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Pillar 1: Education, Personal Development and Learning from Early Childhood to Adulthood

Field: Psychology

Research Interests: Early childhood, language development, executive functions, socio-emotional development, deaf and hard-of-hearing children, parent-child interaction
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+visit Klara's website at the Chair of Developmental Psychology

// DISSERTATION PROJECT

Language and Parent-Child Interaction in the Development of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing and Typical Hearing Children (working title)

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// ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

2018 - 2021
Master of Science in Psychology at the University of Münster with Focus on Learning, Development, and Counselling,
Thesis: „Einfluss von sprachlichen Fähigkeiten und elterlicher Ko-Regulation auf sozio-emotionale Kompetenzen von Kindern mit und ohne Hörbehinderung“

2016 - 2017
Studies at the University of Deusto in Bilbao (Spain)

2014 - 2018
Bachelor of Science in Psychology at the University of Bamberg
Thesis: "Theory of Mind-Entwicklung bei bolivianischen und deutschen Kindern"

Scholarships:

2014 – 2021
Student Scholarship of the Cusanuswerk

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// CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

16.-20.06.2024 Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD), Lisbon /Portugal, Presentation: “Associations between executive functions and language skills in deaf and hard-of-hearing versus typical hearing 3-year-old children”
10.-12.07.2024 EARLI SIG5 and SIG28 conference 2024, Warsaw/Poland, Poster: “Associations between executive functions and language skills in deaf and hard-of-hearing versus typical hearing preschoolers”
15.-19.09.2024 DGPs/ÖGP Congress 2024, Vienna/Austria, Poster: „Exekutive Funktionen: Zusammenhang mit sprachlichen Fähigkeiten und Lernumwelt in der frühen Kindheit“
26.-27.09.2024 BRISE-Konferenz, Berlin/Germany, Poster: “Atypical Language Development and Parental Communication: Implications for Theory of Mind Development”
Congress of the German Psychological Society (DGPs). Presentation: „Emotionsregulationskompetenzen, sprachliche Kompetenzen, psychosoziale Anpassung und emotionsbezogenes Elternverhalten bei Kindern mit und ohne Hörbehinderung“. Hildesheim/Germany. 10. – 15.09.2022.
European Conference on Developmental Psychology (ECDP). Poster: “Associations between executive functions and language skills in deaf and hard-of-hearing versus typical hearing preschoolers”. Turku/Finland. 28.8. – 1.9.2023

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// EXPERIENCE

Work Experience:

since 2021
Research and teaching scientist at the Chair of Psychology I – Developmental Psychology (Prof. Dr. S. Weinert) at the University of Bamberg
2020 - 2021
Student teaching assistant at the working unit Developmental Psychology, University of Münster
2017 - 2018
Student research assistant at the project „ViVA“ (Video-based Validity Analysis of Measures of Early Childhood Competencies and Home Learning Environment), University of Bamberg

Teaching Experience:

Winter Term 2023/24 until and Winter Term 2024/25
Seminar “Language and socio-emotional development in early and middle childhood”
Sommer Term 2024
Seminar “Socio-cognitive and socio-emotional development”
Summer Term 2023
Seminar “Language, Communication and Hearing in Child Development”
Winter Term 2022/2023
Seminar “Leaving Traces – Family as a context of development”
Summer Term 2021 until Summer Term 2023
Seminar “Selected Topics of Developmental Psychology”

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