Sandra Bethke

In my role as HR Advisor, I am involved in the strategic organisational development of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, and support scientific and non-scientific staff with operational matters.

As a PhD student (2021-2025) at the Psychology of Language Department, I investigated individual differences in language processing. Under the supervision of prof. Antje Meyer and dr. Florian Hintz, I developed the Individual Differences in Language Skills Test Battery (IDLaS-DE) for German speakers – a tool to measure how linguistic knowledge as well as domain-general cognitive skills influence the way individuals produce and comprehend language.

Before starting at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, I obtained a B.A. in Applied Linguistics at TU Dortmund (Germany) and M.A. in Neuro- and Pycholinguistics at HHU Düsseldorf (Germany) at prof. Peter Indefrey's Lab. In my master's thesis, I investigated whether individual differences in spelling and vocabulary knowledge modulate morphological priming effects.