Prof. Dr. Meike Ramon

Profile

Prof. Dr. Meike Ramon Dozentin

  • Contact hours Monday
    Tuesday
    Wednesday
    Thursday
    Friday
  • Address Berner Fachhochschule
    Business School
    Institut Applied Data Science & Finance
    Brückenstrasse 73
    3005 Bern

Activities

  • Cognitive Neuroscience

  • Individual differences

  • Super-Recognizers

  • Face and voice/speaker identity recognition

  • Psychometric measurement & psychophysics

  • Neuroimaging

  • Applied biometric identification in law enforcement and security

Teaching

  • Academic Skills

  • Academic Skills – Foundations and Applications

  • Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)

Research

  • Cognitive / Legal Neuroscience

  • Vision, Face Processing

  • Super-Recognizers

  • Deepfakes

  • Voice / Speaker Recognition

CV

  • Meike Ramon studied psychology with a focus on neuropsychology at the Ruhr-University Bochum before completing her doctorate in cognitive neuroscience funded by a PhD Fellowship awarded by Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS) at the Université catholique de Louvain (BE) under the supervision of Bruno Rossion. Following research as an independent FNRS Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Fellow at the University of Glasgow, and later postdoc at UniFR, she held a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) PRIMA professorship and led the Applied Face Cognition Lab at the University of Lausanne. Since 2025 she has been Full Professor of Applied Data Science at BFH Business School, where she directs the Applied Face Cognition Lab, co-directs the Research Lab, and is responsible for curriculum development and delivery of the Academic Skills modules. Her research bridges cognitive neuroscience and applied data science, focusing on individual differences in face and voice identity recognition, the identification and study of Super-Recognizers, and the evidence-based deployment of biometric identification in law enforcement and security. She collaborates with police and security agencies across Switzerland and Europe and advises funding bodies and policymakers on the responsible use of recognition technologies.

    Researcher profiles:
    https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=EJoG26UAAAAJ&view_op
    https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5753-5493
    https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Meike-Ramon?ev=hdr_xprf
    Web of Science ResearcherID: R-5687-2017
  • 2025–present Full Professor of Applied Data Science BFH
  • 2023–2024 Research Unit Director, CARLA UniL
  • 2019–2025 Assistant Professor & SNSF PRIMA Fellow / Head, Applied Face Cognition Lab UniL, UniFR
  • 2015–2019 Postdoctoral Research Associate UniFR
  • 2015–2017 Project Lead "Emotional Test Drive," Mazda Motor Europe GmbH UniFR
  • 2011–2015 FNRS Postdoctoral Fellow & Visiting Fellow University of Glasgow (UK) UCL (BE)
  • 2006-2011 Doctoral Researcher & FNRS Doctoral Fellow UCL (BE)
  • Dec 2010 PhD Cognitive Neuroscience UCL (BE)
  • Aug 2008 DEA Psychology UCL (BE)
  • Aug 2006 Diploma Psychology / Neuropsychology Ruhr-University Bochum (DE)

Projects

Memberships

  • Research Lab Co-Director

  • Ethics Advisory Board Member

  • Open Science Board Member

  • Applied Face Cognition Lab Director

Awards

https://www.curiousfutureinsight.org/media-library-items/awarding-scienceslam-hackathon-poster-session-start-up-fair-scienceinshorts-ignite-session/ (cf. 31:00 for Award Session presentation and https://www.curiousfutureinsight.org/media-library-items/ignite-session-2024, timestamp 53:53 for Ignite Session presentation)

Language skills and intercultural knowledge

  • German - Native or bilingual proficiency
  • English - Native or bilingual proficiency
  • French - Professional working proficiency
  • Italian - Elementary proficiency