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Mrudula Arunkumar
Human Factors Researcher,
Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO
Dr. Mrudula Arunkumar is a cognitive psychologist with extensive experience in behavioural research. She studied B.Sc Psychology in India and pursued her Research Masters in Cognitive Neuroscience in Nijmegen, Netherlands. She has worked at renowned institutions such as the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and did her PhD at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany, conducting experimental research on learning processes in diverse cultural contexts. Currently, she focuses on human learning processes and behaviour change in the field of cybersecurity at Fraunhofer IAO. Her work revolves around empowering the human factor through experiential learning, security design as a part of the Cybersecurity Training lab in Germany in Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO in Stuttgart, Germany.