Professional Exprience of Dr. Samsad Afrin Himi (Dr. phil., LMU, Germany)
Professional Experiences
2019 – Present |
Associate Professor |
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Department of Psychology |
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Jagannath University, Dhaka, Bangladesh |
2015 – 2019 |
Assistant Professor |
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Department of Psychology |
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Jagannath University, Dhaka, Bangladesh |
2012 – 2015 |
Lecturer |
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Department of Psychology |
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Jagannath University, Dhaka, Bangladesh |
2011 – 2012 |
Researcher |
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Research & Evaluation Division |
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Educational Research Unit |
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BRAC, Dhaka, Bangladesh |
2011 |
Faculty Member |
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The College of Arts and Sciences |
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IUBAT- International University of |
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Business Agriculture and Technology, Dhaka |
Research Grant
- 2021 - 2022: “Fluid intelligence and executive functions and their relations to impulsiveness and disruptive behavior of Bangladeshi adolescents”, Principal Investigator, UGC Funded Jagannath University Research Grant, Dhaka
- 2020 - 2021: "Moderating role of personality on the relationship between multitasking behavior and cognitive abilities ", Principal Investigator, UGC Funded Jagannath University Research Grant, Dhaka
Workshop Facilitator
- Regular facilitator of Basic and Advanced Training Course on Psychometrics, organized by Bangladesh Psychometric Society, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
- Two Days’ Workshop on Psychometric Test Construction: Principles & Applications for Education and Mental Health (April, 2021), Organized by Department of Psychology, School of Liberal Arts & Culture Studies, Adamas University, Kolkata, India.
- Training on “Psychometrics for HR Professional” (November, 2020), organized by Enroute Centre for Development.
- One day international workshop on Principles and Processes in Psychometric Tool Construction (September, 2020), organized by Bangladesh Psychometric Society, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
- Pre-conference workshop on Academic Writing (March, 2019), organized by the 5th Bangladesh Clinical Psychology & ICOPE Conference, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Workshops Attended
- Pre-conference workshop on Multinomial-Processing-Tree (MPT) Modeling: Basic Methods and Recent Advances, organized by the 51st Conference of German Psychological Association (DGP), Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
- Pre-conference workshop on Mining Big Data to Extract Patterns and Predict Real-life Outcomes (July, 2018), organized by the 19th Edition of the European Conference on Personality, Zadar, Croatia.
- Presentation Skills (February, 2018), organized by Graduate Center LMU
- Maintaining Privacy with Open Data (February, 2018), organized by LMU Open Science Center
- Pre-symposium workshop on Computational Modelling of Visual Working Memory in Matlab (July, 2017),organized by General and Experimental Psychology, LMU
- Voice Training (June, 2017), organized by Graduate Center LMU
- Optimizing Writing Strategies in English (April, 2017), organized by Graduate Center LMU
- SlideWriting (March, 2017), organized by Graduate Center LMU
- Optimizing Reading Strategies (November, 2016), organized by Graduate Center LMU
- Power Analysis (July, 2016), organized by Open Science Team
- Meetings und DiskussionsrundenLeiten (June, 2016), organized by Graduate Center LMU
- Logic and Argumentation for Young Researcher (April, 2016), organized by Graduate Center LMU
Professional Training
- Attended in the Three Months Long Lectures Series on Multivariate Statistics (April – July, 2016) at LMU, given by Prof. Dr. Moritz Heene
- 8th Summer School Programon Psychology (July/August, 2014)
- Course completed: 7 Courses (equivalent to 29 Credits)
- International Max Planck Research School on Adapting Behavior in a FundamentallyUncertain World (IMPRS Uncertainty), Germany
- Internship in Strategic Management though SWOT Analysis(April, 2010)
Professional Responsibility
- Associate Editor, Jagannath University Journal of Psychology
- Assistant Editor of Bangladesh Journal of Psychology
- International Secretary, Bangladesh Psychometrics Society
Software Proficiency
Proficient in using R Programming, IBM SPSS Amos, MATLAB, and Python Programming.
Professional Memberships
- Associate Member of American Psychological Association (APA) (Membership Number: 37512484)
- Life Member of Bangladesh Psychological Association (BPA) (Membership Number: LM 00000123)
- Award Leader of The Duke of Edinburg’s Award Foundation, Jagannath University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Conference Member Secretary: Scientific Committee, 1st International Conference of Bangladesh Psychometric Society, Dhaka, Bangladesh (held on January, 2022)
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