Curriculum Vitae Dr. Yana Fandakova April 2014

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1 Curriculum Vitae Dr. Yana Fandakova April 2014 Contact Information Center for Mind and Brain University of California, Davis 202 Cousteau Place Davis, CA Phone: Education and Degrees May 2012 August 2008 Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D.), Summa cum Laude Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany Dissertation Title: Age and Individual Differences in True and False Memory Across the Lifespan Dissertation Committee: Silvia A. Bunge, Peter A. Frensch, Hauke R. Heekeren, Ulman Lindenberger (thesis advisor) Diploma in Psychology Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany Diploma Thesis: Associative and Strategic Components of Episodic Memory Across the Lifespan: An Application of Latent Growth Models Study of Psychology, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany Major: Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience Study of German, Sociology and Politics, Otto- von- Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany June 2002 Secondary School Diploma, Secondary School Ak. Ivan Tsenov, Vratsa, Bulgaria Professional Experience 2014 present Postdoctoral research fellow Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley Advisors: Prof. Simona Ghetti and Prof. Silvia A. Bunge

2 Postdoctoral research fellow Advisors: Dr. Yee Lee Shing and Prof. Ulman Lindenberger Predoctoral research fellow Advisors: Dr. Yee Lee Shing and Prof. Ulman Lindenberger Research assistant Awards and Fellowships July 2013 June 2013 October 2012 June 2012 Postdoctoral research fellowship, German Research Foundation (DFG) to collaborate with Prof. Silvia A. Bunge, UC Berkeley and Prof. Simona Ghetti, UC Davis Project: Relating changes in fronto- parietal networks to changes in control over memory: A longitudinal, cognitive neuroscience approach to memory development in childhood Otto Hahn Medal for outstanding scientific achievements, Max Planck Society Conference Travel Grant to the 2012 Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) in New Orleans, USA, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) NIMH Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Postdoctoral Stipend, Max Planck Society March 2011 Conference Travel Grant to the 2011 Biennal Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) in Montreal, Canada, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Predoctoral fellow, International Max Planck Research School "The Life Course: Evolutionary and Ontogenetic Dynamics (LIFE)" Scholarship for outstanding achievements awarded by the Bulgarian Ministry of Education 2

3 Teaching Experience October 2013 Winter 2012 October 2012 Lecture on Human Research on Learning and Memory, International Graduate Program Medical Neurosciences, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin Cognitive Neuroscience of Episodic Memory Across the Lifespan, Department of Psychology, Free University Berlin (co- taught with Prof. Ulman Lindenberger and Dr. Sandra Düzel) Lecture on Human Research on Learning and Memory, International Graduate Program Medical Neurosciences, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin Publications Fandakova, Y.*, Sander, M. C.*, Werkle- Bergner, M., & Shing, Y. L. (2014). Age differences in short- term memory binding are related to working memory performance across the lifespan. Psychology and Aging, 29, doi: /a *joint first authorship. Fandakova, Y., Lindenberger, U., & Shing, Y. L. (in press). Episodic memory across the lifespan: General trajectories and modifiers. In A. Duarte, D.R. Addis, & M.D. Barense (Eds.) The cognitive neuroscience of human memory. Wiley- Blackwell Press. Fandakova, Y., Lindenberger, U., & Shing, Y. L. (2013). Deficits in process- specific frontal and hippocampal activation underlie adult age differences in episodic memory interference. Cerebral Cortex. Advanced online publication. doi: /cercor/bht034 Fandakova, Y., Shing, Y. L., & Lindenberger, U. (2013). High- confidence memory errors in old age: The roles of monitoring and binding processes. Memory, 21, doi: / Fandakova, Y., Shing, Y. L., & Lindenberger, U. (2012). Differences in binding and monitoring mechanisms contribute to lifespan age differences in false memory. Developmental Psychology, 49, doi: /a Fandakova, Y., Shing, Y. L., & Lindenberger, U. (2012). Heterogeneity in memory training improvement among older adults: A latent class analysis. Memory, 20(6), doi: / Shing, Y. L., Rodrigue, K. M., Kennedy, K. M., Fandakova, Y., Bodammer, N., Werkle- Bergner, M., Lindenberger, U., & Raz, N. (2011). Hippocampal subfield volumes: Age, vascular risk, and correlation with associative memory. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 1(2). 3

4 Burgmans, S., Gronenschild, E. H. B. M., Fandakova, Y., Shing, Y. L., van Boxtel, M. P. J., Vuurman, E. F. P. M., Uylings, H. B. M., Jolles, J., Raz, N. (2011). Age differences in speed of processing and executive functioning: Partial mediation by white matter integrity. NeuroImage, 55(3), Fandakova, Y., Lindenberger, U., & Shing, Y. L. (in revision). Preserving youth- like prefrontal processing protects against false memory in later adulthood. Conference Presentations Fandakova, Y., Lindenberger, U., Shing, Y. L. (2013). Heterogeneity in episodic memory control processes among older adults: Structural and functional findings. Symposium presentation at the Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), Vienna, Austria. Fandakova, Y., Lindenberger, U., Shing, Y. L. (2013). Individual Differences in Functional Activation are Related to Episodic Memory Errors in Old Age. Poster to be presented at the 2013 Dallas Aging and Cognition Conference, Dallas, USA. Fandakova, Y., Lindenberger, U., Shing, Y.L. (2012). False memory in old age: The importance of maintaining functional similarity to younger adults. Poster presented at the 42th Annual Society for Neuroscience Meeting, New Orleans, USA. Fandakova, Y., Lindenberger, U., Shing, Y. L. (2012). Age differences in memory monitoring and associative novelty detection contribute to older adults increased susceptibility to false memory. Symposium presentation at the 48 th German Congress of Psychology (DGPS), Bielefeld, Germany (co- chaired by Yana Fandakova & Myriam C. Sander) Shing, Y. L., Fandakova, Y., Lindenberger, U. (2011). Adult age differences in the neuronal correlates of memory monitoring mechanisms. Symposium presentation at the 11 th International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON XI), Mallorca, Spain. Fandakova, Y., Shing, Y. L., Lindenberger, U. (2011). Adult age differences in the ability to withstand interference in episodic memory: Neuronal correlates and interaction with binding mechanisms. Poster presented at the 18 th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, San Francisco, USA. Fandakova, Y., Shing, Y. L., Lindenberger, U. (2011). Adult age differences in monitoring highly familiar events. Symposium presentation at the 2011 Biennal Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Montreal, Canada. Fandakova, Y., Shing, Y. L., Lindenberger, U. (2010). Age- related differences in the retrieval of highly familiar events. Symposium presentation at the 47 th German Congress of Psychology (DGPS), Bremen, Germany 4

5 Fandakova, Y., Shing, Y. L., Lindenberger, U. (2010). Age- related differences in the ability to monitor currently relevant memories. Poster presented at the 22 th Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Shing, Y. L., Rodrigue, K. M., Kennedy, K. M., Fandakova, Y., Bodammer, N., Werkle- Bergner, M., Lindenberger, U., & Raz, N. (2010). Regional hippocampal structure: Differential aging and relations to associative recognition memory. Poster presented at the 16 th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Barcelona, Spain. Fandakova, Y., Shing, Y. L., Lindenberger, U. (2010). Age- related differences in the ability to monitor currently relevant memories. Symposium presentation at the Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), Saarbrücken, Germany Ad- hoc Reviewer Acta Psychologica (assistance with manuscript review) Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition Developmental Psychology (assistance with manuscript review) Journal of Neuroscience Psychology and Aging (assistance with manuscript review) 5