Research Assistant, since September 2025
Forensic interviewing across languages
With Prof. Pekka Santtila's forensic psychology research group: AI support for interviewing children in Tunisian Arabic.
Sarra Baouab, Frankfurt am Main
Psychology researcher building new research tools.
I studied psychology and build software for research: AI simulated patients for training therapists, AI support for forensic interviews across languages, and a workbench for computational models of neurons.
Skills
- Research
- Study design, questionnaires, preregistration, NICHD interview protocol
- Data
- Python, R, SPSS, SQL
- AI
- Language-model evaluation; Unreal Engine, MetaHuman, NVIDIA Audio2Face
- Modelling
- NEURON, Jaxley, Brian2
- Languages
- Arabic, French, English, Spanish, German, Mandarin
What I want to work on
Forensic and legal psychology
How questioning shapes what children and adults report, and why justice systems sometimes get it wrong.
Neuropsychology
How the brain supports memory, attention and learning, and how these functions are assessed.
Neurotechnology
Tools that record or model brain activity, and whether they measure what they claim.
AI tools for psychology
The next generation of AI tools for training, assessment and interviewing, built so psychologists can check them.
Research
Forensic and clinical psychology
Work with university research groups is unpublished. Details in my CV or on request.
Independent Expert (Adaptation), since September 2025
Child-friendly justice training, Tunisia
Adapted a training on interviewing child victims for professionals in Tunisia, for an EU and Council of Europe project.
Course project, continued independently since 2025
Racial disparities in wrongful convictions
A data pipeline on the U.S. National Registry of Exonerations and a draft preregistration.
Research Developer, since December 2025
Clinical training technology
With Prof. Katie Aafjes-van Doorn's psychotherapy research lab: AI simulated patients for training therapists' interpersonal skills.
Neuroscience and neurotechnology, independent project, since October 2026
Neuro Workbench
Working prototype; scientific validation in progress
A desktop lab for looking inside computational models of neurons, with every number on screen tied to a recorded run. The current demonstration links a real 3D reconstruction of a hippocampal neuron to stored voltage traces from a passive model.
Experience
Full CV (PDF)- Oct 2026 to presentNeuro Workbench, independent research software
- Dec 2025 to presentResearch Developer, Prof. Katie Aafjes-van Doorn's psychotherapy research lab
- Sep 2025 to presentResearch Assistant, Prof. Pekka Santtila's forensic psychology research group
- Sep 2025 to presentIndependent Expert (Adaptation), EU and Council of Europe project on child-friendly justice, Tunisia
- Fall 2025Teaching Assistant, undergraduate psychology course
- 2024 to 2026B.Sc. Psychology, University of Europe for Applied Sciences, Berlin