Dr. Alex Miklashevsky (er/ihn)

Scientist

Alex.Miklashevsky@mfn.berlin+49 0 30 889 140 - 8590
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Collection Future
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Services

As research lead of the WiNoDa Knowledge Lab, I provide training and education on data competencies for researchers and practitioners working with natural science collections. We also organize networking events and develop services and infrastructure for working with collection data.

Project(s)

  • Third-Party Funded Project

    WiNoDa Knowledge Lab

    Knowledge Lab for Natural Science Collections and Object-Related Data

Vita

Work Experience 

  • since 2024: Lead of the WiNoDa Knowledge Lab (Natural History Museum, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Berlin) 
  • 2023-2024: Lecturer, postdoc (Brain Language Laboratory, Free University of Berlin) 
  • 2017-2023: Postdoc (Potsdam Embodied Cognition Group, University of Potsdam) 
  • 2014-2018: Researcher, coordinator of research projects (International Centre for Research in Human Development, Tomsk State University) 
  • 2014-2017: Assistant lecturer (Philological Faculty, Tomsk State University) 

  • 2013-2014: Secondary school teacher (Tomsk Public School No. 40) 

     

Education 

  • 2024: Ph.D. in Cognitive Science (University of Potsdam) 
  • 2018: Ph.D. in Linguistics (Tomsk State University) 
  • 2015: M.A. in Cognitive Linguistics (Tomsk State University) 
  • 2015: German language translator (additional education) (Tomsk State University) 
  • 2013: B.A. in Philology (Tomsk State University)

Further information

Teaching 

  1. Cognitive Science, Experimental Psychology, and Linguistics Linguistic Methods and Research Questions (seminar for undergraduate students) 
  2. Language Function: Language(s), Words, and Concepts in the Brain (seminar for undergraduate students) 
  3. Experimental Psychological Training (ExPrak) (seminar for undergraduate and graduate students) General Linguistics (seminar for undergraduate students) 
  4. Linguistics in the System of Natural Sciences (seminar for graduate students) 
  5. Introduction to Applied Linguistics (lecture and seminar for undergraduate students) 
  6. Statistics and Computational Linguistics Linear mixed-effects modeling in R (workshop for graduate students) 
  7. Linguistic Databases (lecture and seminar for undergraduate students) 
  8. Corpus Linguistics (lecture and seminar for undergraduate students) 
  9. Content Analysis (lecture and seminar for undergraduate and graduate students) 
  10. Communication Science Introduction to Communication Theory (seminar for undergraduate students) 
  11. Advertising and PR (seminar for undergraduate students)

Publications

Miklashevsky, A. (2026). Excel-Schulung für Ehrenamtliche am Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. [Schulung]. European Organization for Nuclear Research. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20490360Open Access

Pohl, J., Miklashevsky, A. (2025). Vertical and horizontal space-valence associations: A meta-analysis. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 170, 106054. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106054Open Access

Pohl, J., Miklashevsky, A. (2025). Corrigendum to “Vertical and horizontal space-valence associations: A meta-analysis” [Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev. 170 (2025) 106054]. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 106084-106084. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106084Open Access

Miklashevsky, A., Muraki, E., Frau, F., Pexman, P. (2025). Individual Variability in Embodied Language Processing. In Reference Module in Social Sciences (B9780323955041007857). Elsevier. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95504-1.00785-7

Kühne, K., Miklashevsky, A., Malyshevskaya, A. (2025). Does the Level of Temporal Demand Affect Activation of the Mental Timeline?. Journal of Cognition, 8(1), 1-21. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.448Open Access

Platonova, O., Miklashevsky, A. (2025). Warm and fuzzy: Perceptual semantics can be activated even during shallow lexical processing.. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory and Cognition. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001429

Miklashevsky, A., Heinle, K., Albrecht, C., Loginova, K., Szigli, K., Petersen, M. (2024). WiNoDa Knowledge Lab: Ein Datenkompetenzzentrum für Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen und Objektzentrierte Daten. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13886477Open Access

Miklashevsky, A., Wiepke, A., Belli, F., Fischer, M.H. (2024). Embodied Learning in Virtual Reality. In Senkbeil, K., Ahlers, T. (Hrsg.), Virtual Reality in den Geisteswissenschaften Konzepte, Methoden und interkulturelle Anwendungen (235-254). Berlin: Peter Lang. URL: https://www.peterlang.com/document/1302282Open Access

Heinle, K., Miklashevsky, A., Albrecht, C., Szigli, K., Loginova, K., Petersen, M. (2024). WiNoDa Knowledge Lab - Wissenslabor für Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen und objektzentrierte Daten. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.13832469Open Access

Miklashevsky, A., Reifegerste, J., García, A.M., Pulvermüller, F., Balota, D.A., Veríssimo, J., Ullman, M.T. (2024). Embodied cognition comes of age: A processing advantage for action words is modulated by aging and the task.. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153(7), 1725-1764. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001555