Meryl Varadinov

Front-End Developer at Dynamo Software

January 2019 — Present

Key Skills: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, ExtJS

Web Developer at Selected Media

March 2016 — December 2018

Key Skills: HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, JavaScript, Umbraco, C#

Research Assistant at Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour

October 2014 — March 2015

Type of institution: Research center devoted to understanding the mechanistic underpinnings of human cognition and behavior in health and disease

Trainee at Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour

September 2013 — August 2014

Honorary Researcher at Central and Eastern European Center for Cognitive Science

October 2010 — February 2011

Type of institution: Research center for cognitive science

Intern at Specialized University Hospital for Active Treatment in Neurology and Psychiatry "St. Naum"

February 2009 — May 2009

Type of institution: Prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of neurological and psychiatric diseases

Intern at Medical Institute - Ministry of Internal Affairs

January 2009 — February 2009

Type of institution: Multi-profile hospital for outpatient and hospital care

Intern at Center for Military Psychology and Psychoprophylaxis - Military Medical Academy

June 2008 — July 2008

Type of institution: Evaluation and selection of professional soldiers

Intern at 7th Secondary School "St. Sedmochislenitsi"

February 2008 — June 2008

Type of institution: Secondary school

Skillcrush - Web Developer Blueprint

June 2015 - August 2015

HTML, CSS, JavaScript/jQuery, Ruby, Git/Github, Command Line

Radboud University Nijmegen - Nijmegen, The Netherlands - Research Master in Cognitive Science

September 2012 — August 2014

Grade point average: 7.54 (Best possible grade: 10; Thesis: 8.5)

New Bulgarian University - Sofia, Bulgaria - Bachelor of Science in Psychology

September 2005 — May 2009

Grade point average: 5.77 (Best possible grade: 6; Thesis: 6)

Milivojevic B., Varadinov M., Vicente Grabovetsky A., Collin, Silvy H., Doeller, Christian F. (2016) Coding of event nodes and narrative context in the hippocampus. J Neurosci 36:12412–12424. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2889-15.2016

Vicente Grabovetsky, A., Milivojevic, B., Varadinov, M., Doeller, C. F. (2014). Head motion-related autocorrelation confounds in Representational Similarity Analysis. 20th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping.

Varadinov, M., Laskin, L. (2013). The Effects of Overt Head Movements on Valenced Image Recognition and Recall in Bulgarians. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Laskin, L., Varadinov, M. (2012). A Critical Look at the Findings of Sergent (1982). Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Varadinov, M. (2014). Sliding Memories: Tracking the emergence of context specific representations. Synapsium 2014, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Laskin, L., Varadinov, M. (2012). The Effects of Overt Head Movements on Valenced Image Recall in Bulgarians. 25th Annual International Conference in Cognitive Science, Kaliningrad, Russia.

Completed course in Artificial Intelligence (2011, advanced track, online course offered by Stanford University)

Co-founder of the “Sapiens” Association, a non-profit organization promoting science, education, and critical thinking in Bulgaria (2010 – 2012)

Board member of the New Bulgarian University Student Psychology Club (2008 – 2012; event coordination and organization)

Annual International Summer School in Cognitive Science (2009 – 2013) (Embodied Cognition, Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, Prefrontal Cortex Executive Functions, High-Level Vision, Decision Making, Dynamical Systems Approach to Cognition, Problem Solving, Bayesian Data Analysis, Spatial Cognition)

European Conference on Cognitive Science – EuroCogSci2011 (21 – 24 May 2011)

2nd International Analogy Conference (July 24 – 27 2009)

Coordinator and translator at the 11th International Conference on Military Mental Health (22 – 24 October2008)