Sun, Qizhang
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EDUCATION
09/2012-present
Qizhang Sun (known as Kevin)
qizhang.sun@usi.ch
+41 58 666 4863
IMCA-USI, via G. Buffi 13, 6904 Lugano, Switzerland
Università della Svizzera italiana
Lugano, Switzerland
Doctor of Philosophy (In progress)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Gibbert & Prof. Dr. Thomas Hills
Research topic: decision environment and advice seeking
09/2011-09/2012
University College London
London, United Kingdom
Master of Science in Cognitive and Decision Sciences
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. David Shanks
Thesis: Does explicit contamination affect priming in implicit task?
09/2007-06/2011
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
Guangzhou, China
Bachelor of Science in Applied Psychology
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Xinkui Chen
Thesis: Auditory Implicit and Explicit Short Term Memory in Spastic
Cerebral Palsy Children
SELECTED FUNDING AND SCHOLARSHIP
11/2010 National Scholarship, Ministry of Education, China (Top 0.2%, ￥8000, c.a. €1000)
11/2010 First Prize of Excellent Student Scholarship, GDUFS (Top 2%, ￥2000, c.a. €250)
05/2010 Innovation Funding of Academic Achievement, GDUFS (￥800, c.a. €100)
SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS
04/2014 2014 Interdivisional Mentoring Award- American Psychological Association (APA, $1000)
06/2011 Outstanding Graduate Medal — Undergraduate (Top 0.1%)
11/2010 Annual Outstanding Student Award — Top Student (Top 0.5%)
11/2009 & 2008 Annual Excellent Student Award (Top 2%)
PUBLICATIONS
Sun, Q., Noguchi, T., Hills, T. T., & Gibbert, M. (2014). Paying for useless advice to resolve
information overload. Paper presented at the 122nd Annual Convention of the American
Psychological Association, Washington, D.C.
Sun, Q., Zhang, Q., Tang, X., Chen, W. and Xu, Y. (2009). The Implicit Structure of Mental
Accounting among Undergraduate Students of Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Center,
Proceedings of the 12th National Academic Conference of Psychology, 353
Qizhang Sun, Qizhang.Sun@usi.ch
Latest update: August 2014
PRESENTATIONS
07/2014 7th Annual Judgment and Decision Making Workshop for Early Career Researchers, University of
Mannheim, Germany
08/2014 American Psychological Association (APA) Annual Convention 2014, Washington D.C., USA
08/2014 2nd European Associate of Decision Making Summer School, Max Plank Institute for Research on
Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany
SUMMER SCHOOLS
06/2014 St. Gallen Summer School in Empirical Research Method (Regression II – Linear Models),
University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
07/2014 Summer School on Decision Making under Uncertainty, Warwick Business School, Coventry,
UK
08/2014 2nd European Associate of Decision Making Summer School, Max Plank Institute for Research
on Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany
SELECTED ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
09/2012-present Institute of Marketing and Communication Management, Università della Svizzera
italiana
Lugano, Switzerland
Research assistant
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Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Gibbert
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Research on decision environment and advise seeking
09/2012-01/2013
Department of Psychology, University of Warwick
Coventry, United Kingdom
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11/2011-08/2012
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09/2010-04/2011
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11/2008-12/2009
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Visiting researcher
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thomas Hills
Research on decision environment and advise seeking
Department of Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences, UCL
London, United Kingdom
Master Degree - Main Project
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. David Shanks
Thesis title: Does explicit contamination affect priming in implicit task?
Department of Psychology, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
Guangzhou, China
Bachelor Degree - Main Project
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Xinkui Chen
Auditory Implicit and Explicit Short Term Memory in Spastic Cerebral Palsy Children
Graduation Thesis — Outstanding Award
Department of Psychology, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
Guangzhou, China
Student Research Project Leader
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Shaogang Yang
Research on university students consumption, psychology decision making
Qizhang Sun, Qizhang.Sun@usi.ch
Latest update: August 2014
SELECTED TEACHING EXPERIENCE
10/2013-12/2013 Consumer Behaviour（Master course, Università della Svizzera italiana）
Lugano, Switzerland
Teaching Assistant
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Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Michael Gibbert, Università della Svizzera italiana
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Teaching, experiment demonstration, lecture preparation assisting, exam grading
10/2013-12/2013
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Introduction to Marketing（Bachelor course, Università della Svizzera italiana）
Lugano, Switzerland
Teaching Assistant
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Michael Gibbert, Università della Svizzera italiana
Case study organizing, assisting in lecture preparation
RESEARCH GRANT APPLICATION EXPERIENCE
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Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Interdisciplinary Project
Proposal drafting and administration
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Research policy and grant proposal writing (Swiss system)
Ph.D. course at Università della Svizzera italiana by Prof. Benedetto Lepori
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Oversea Research Scholarship (UCL-ORS, UK) - Applicant
Writing successful grant proposals (German system)
Workshop at University of Mannheim by Prof. Dr. Edgar Erdfelder
SKILLS
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Programming and softwares
MatLab, Dynamic Website Programming, R Programming, SPSS, Lisrel
Languages
Chinese Cantonese (native), Chinese Mandarin (native), English (full professional), Italian (basic)
Qizhang Sun, Qizhang.Sun@usi.ch
Latest update: August 2014