Since 2024: Science Manager
Department of Neuropsychology, Ruhr University Bochum

2019-2023: Research Associate
Department of Biopsychology, Ruhr University Bochum

2018-2019: Research Assistant
Department of Hygiene, Social and Environmental Medicine, Ruhr University Bochum

2018: Research Internship
Neural basis of learning and memory, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

2014-2018: Student Assistant
Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Ruhr University Bochum

2019-2024: Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.)
Department of Biopsychology, Ruhr University Bochum
Thesis: Multisensory integration of navigational information in the avian telencephalon (magna cum laude)

2016-2019: M. Sc. in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience
Ruhr University Bochum
Thesis: Pigeons discriminate between paintings by Picasso and Monet: Insight into the neural basis of categorization

2013-2016: B. Sc. in Psychology
Ruhr University Bochum
Thesis: Semantic Categories in the Pigeon Brain

• Steinemer A, Ziegler M, Haselhuhn K, Güntürkün O, Rook N (2025) The distribution of nitric oxide-synthesizing neurons and soluble guanylate cyclase in the pigeon brain. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.24.6
   
• Steinemer A, Simon A, Güntürkün O, Rook N (2024) Parallel executive pallio-motor loops in the pigeon brain. J Comp Neurol 532(4):e25611. https://doi.org/10.1002/cne.2561
   
• Anderson C, Parra R S, Chapman H, Steinemer  A, Porter  B, Colombo M (2020) Pigeon nidopallium caudolaterale, entopallium, and mesopallium ventrolaterale neural responses during categorisation of Monet and Picasso paintings. Sci Rep 10, 15971. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-72650-y

2022: Program for project-related exchange of personnel funded by DAAD
for a lab visit at Boğaziçi University Istanbul, Turkey

2017: PROMOS Scholarships awarded by the RUB and DAAD
for a research internship in New Zealand

Poster Presentations

• Steinemer A, Simon A, Güntürkün O, Rook N (2022) The organization of motor-related projections of the caurolateral nidopallium in pigeons. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, USA.
• Adolph D, Margraf J, Schlacht A* (2017) Predicting symptom severity and therapy-outcome? An RDoC approach using high frequency heart rate variability and fear conditioning. 57th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Vienna, Austria.
   

Talks

• 2024: CuttingEEGX, Donders Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands (online)
  Title: Evolving Careers, Panel Discussion
• 2023: Research Colloquium Biopsychology, Ruhr University Bochum
  Title: Finding a magneto-sensitive brain area in pigeons
• 2022: RTG Sensory Biology and Animal Navigation, Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg
  Title: Challenges of investigating the magnetic sense in pigeons
• 2020: Biannual Meeting of the CRC 1372, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg
  Title: Multisensory integration of navigational information in the avian telencephalon

• Seminar: Animal Research in Neuroscience
  Winter term 2024/2025; B. Sc. Psychology, M. Sc. Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience
• Seminar: Topics in Cognitive Neuroscience
  Winter term 2024/2025; M. Sc. Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, M. Sc. Cognitive Science
• Project-oriented seminar Neuropsychology
  Winter term 2024/2025; B. Sc. Psychology
• Research-oriented internship Neuropsychology
  Since summer term 2024; B. Sc. Psychology
• Research-oriented internship Biopsychology
  Winter term 2019/2020 - summer term 2023; B. Sc. Psychology