Eirini Zormpa

Eirini Zormpa

Quantitative Researcher & Scientific Community Manager

The Royal Society of Arts

Imperial College London

Biography

I am currently splitting my time between quantitative research and scientific community management.

I work as a Quantitative Researcher at the Royal Society of Arts, where I work on interventions that aim to enable people, places and the planet to flourish in harmony. As part of my role, I work on enhancing our digital infrastructure to enable open, reproducible, and collaborative research, for example by maintaining our GitHub Organization.

I also work as a Scientific Community Manager at Imperial College London, specifically the UNIVERSE-HPC project. The UNIVERSE-HPC project aims to define a training curriculum framework, spanning from undergraduate to continuing professional development level, for Research Software Engineers (RSEs) specializing in high performance computing (HPC).

I previously completed a PhD Student at the the Psychology of Language department of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen. In my PhD research, I studied how processes of language production and language comprehension affect memory, especially when combined into conversation. I investigated these topics using behavioural measures and eye-tracking methods, both in the lab and online, under the supervision of Dr Laurel Brehm and Professor Antje Meyer.

Interests

  • open research
  • reproducibility
  • open research infrastructure
  • community management
  • psycholinguistics

Education

  • PhD in Social Sciences, 2020

    Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (Radboud University)

  • MSc in Language Sciences, 2015

    University of Reading

  • BA in English Language and Literature, 2013

    Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Skills

Experimental Design

Data Analysis

R

Recent Publications

In conversation, answers are remembered better than the questions themselves

Linguistic focus, modulated by questions, improves recognition memory above and beyond serial position in one- and two-person experiments.

Slow naming of pictures facilitates memory for their names

Naming a picture improves memory for the picture name. Longer processing time during naming was also associated with a memory benefit.

The production effect and the generation effect improve memory in picture naming

When naming a picture, both coming up with the picture name and saying that name aloud improves memory for the picture.