Maria joined the team in February 2023 to work as a PhD in the FEAR-REP project funded by the German Research Foundation where she is investigating replicability within the field of fear conditioning taking into account methodological, procedural and analytical heterogeneity. Maria holds a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy-Neuroscience-Cognition from the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg and did her masters in Cognitive and Integrative System Neuroscience at the Philipps University in Marburg.