Sarah Weigelt - FAIR - TU Dortmund

Location & approach

By car

The campus of the TU Dortmund University is located near the freeway junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerland line A45 crosses the Ruhr expressway B1/A40. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits. All FAIR PIs have offices on the North Campus. FAIR's main offices will be located a bit off the North Campus on Martin-Schmeisser-Weg 17 (parking behind the building).

By train

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 15 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. In addition, the university can be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Verkehrsverbundes Rhein-Ruhr, and DSW21 also offer an interactive route network map.

By plane

From Dortmund Airport, the AirportExpress takes just over 20 minutes to Dortmund main station and from there to the university by S-Bahn. A wider range of international flight connections is offered by Düsseldorf Airport, about 60 kilometers away, which can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university's train station.

The H-Bahn

One of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund is the H-Bahn. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Center via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

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Location & approach

By car

The campus of the TU Dortmund University is located near the freeway junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerland line A45 crosses the Ruhr expressway B1/A40. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits. All FAIR PIs have offices on the North Campus. FAIR's main offices will be located a bit off the North Campus on Martin-Schmeisser-Weg 17 (parking behind the building).

By train

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 15 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. In addition, the university can be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Verkehrsverbundes Rhein-Ruhr, and DSW21 also offer an interactive route network map.

By plane

From Dortmund Airport, the AirportExpress takes just over 20 minutes to Dortmund main station and from there to the university by S-Bahn. A wider range of international flight connections is offered by Düsseldorf Airport, about 60 kilometers away, which can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university's train station.

The H-Bahn

One of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund is the H-Bahn. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Center via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

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Principal Investigator

Prof. Dr. Sarah Weigelt

Mail: sarah.weigelttu-dortmundde

Chair of Vision, Visual Impairments and Blindness

Phone: 0231 / 755 - 4559

Emil-Figge-Str. 50 | Room 4.421

portrait of Sarah Weigelt

CV

Sarah Weigelt studied psychology and philosophy at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. She obtained her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from Maastricht University in 2008 for research performed in Wolf Singer’s group at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt. Sarah was a postdoc in Nancy Kanwisher’s group at MIT before starting her own group at the Ruhr University Bochum in 2013. In October 2018 she joined TU Dortmund University as a full professor, where she heads the research group on vision, visual impairments and blindness.

Research Interests

Vision
Brain development
Development of vision
Visual impairments and blindness
The impact of vision on learning

Publications

Selected publications

Meissner, T. W., Prüfer, H., Nordt, M., Semmelmann, K., & Weigelt, S. (2018). Development of face detection in preschool children. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 42(4), 439–444. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165025417738058

Nordt, M., Semmelmann, K., Genç, E., & Weigelt, S. (2018). Age-related increase of image-invariance in the fusiform face area. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 31, 46–57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2018.04.005

Semmelmann, K., Hönekopp, A., & Weigelt, S. (2017). Looking Tasks Online: Utilizing Webcams to Collect Video Data from Home. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1582. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01582

Semmelmann, K., Nordt, M., Sommer, K., Röhnke, R., Mount, L., Prüfer, H., Terwiel, S., Meissner, T. W., Koldewyn, K., & Weigelt, S. (2016). U Can Touch This: How Tablets Can Be Used to Study Cognitive Development. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 1021. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01021

Weigelt, S., Koldewyn, K., Dilks, D. D., Balas, B., McKone, E., & Kanwisher, N. (2014). Domain-specific development of face memory but not face perception. Developmental Science, 17(1), 47–58. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12089

More publications

See FAIR publications or the full publication list of the Chair of Vision, Visual Impairments and Blindness.