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[Personal Information]
- Birth: 1961, Villingen, Germany
- Citizenship: German
- Marital Status: married, one child
[Education]
- Abitur, Hindenburggymnasium, Trier, 1971-1979
- Medicine, Basic Sciences, Saarland University, Homburg, 1979-1982
- M.D., Medical School, Technical University, Munich, 1982-1986
- Ph.D., Neurobiology, Max-Planck-Institute for Psychiatry, Munich, 1983-1987
- Philosophy, Frankfurt University, 1987-1990
- Specialization in Medical Physiology (Facharzt), Ärztekammer Nordrhein, Düsseldorf, 2002
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[Research Experience]
- Graduate Research, Neuropathology and Neurobiology, Dept. of Neuromorphology, Max-Planck-Institute for Psychiatry, Munich, 1983-1987
- Post-Doctoral Fellow, Neurobiology, Dept. of Neurophysiology, Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, 1987-1995
- Heisenberg-Fellow and head of research group, Dept. of Neurophysiology, Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, 1996-2000
- Daimler-Benz Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study Berlin, Fall 1997-Summer 1998
- Head of Cellular Neurobiology Group, Research Center Juelich, 2000-2002
- Director of Dept. of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 2002-present
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[Teaching Experience]
- Undergraduate teaching, Medical Physiology (classes and laboratory courses on sensory physiology, neurophysiology, vegetative physiology), Dept. of Physiology, Frankfurt University, 1990-1995
- Graduate teaching, Systems Neurobiology (teaching and supervision of graduate students and postdocs), Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, 1991-2000
- Teaching for occupational therapists (classes on sensory physiology and systems neuroscience), at various private schools for occupational therapy, 1996-present
- Habilitation in Medical Physiology, Frankfurt University Medical School, 1995
- Lecturer (Privatdozent) in Medical Physiology, (classes and laboratory courses on sensory physiology, neurophysiology, vegetative physiology; lectures in physiology for students of psychology), Frankfurt University Medical School, 1995-2002
- Full Professor of Physiology (undergraduate and graduate teaching and examination, physiology and psychology), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 2002-present
- Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Dept. of Psychology, Hamburg University, 2004-present
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[Research Interests]
- Information processing in the visual and tactile system
- Dynamics of distributed sensory representations
- Role of synchronization and oscillations for binding processes
- Role of temporal binding for intermodal and sensorimotor integration
- Computational theories of perception and representation
- Neural correlates of top-down processing, attention, consciousness
- Clinical applications of models of neural dynamics (e.g. basal ganglia disorders)
- Technical applications of models of neural dynamics (e.g. autonomous robots)
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[Teaching Interests]
- Cognitive and systems neuroscience
- Physiology of sensory/motor systems, plasticity, learning and memory
- Computational theories of perception, representation, and consciousness
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[Honors and Awards]
- Undergraduate fellowship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes 1980-1983 and 1985-1986
- Graduate fellowship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes 1983-1985
- Award of a five-year Heisenberg-Fellowship, German Research Council, 1995
- Award of a one-year Daimler-Benz Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin, 1997
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[Affiliations]
- Member of the Society for Neuroscience (U.S.A.)
- Member of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (F.E.N.S.)
- Member of the German Neuroscience Society
- Member of the German Physiological Society
- Member of the German Cognitive Science Society
- Advisory Editorial Board member of "Trends in Cognitive Sciences"
- Advisory Editorial Board member of "Consciousness and Cognition"
- Executive Board member of EU Network of Excellence "Neuro-IT"
- Executive Board member of EU Coordinated Action Network "euCognition"
- Chairman of the Neuroscience Research Initiative Hamburg
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[Service to the Scientific Community]
- Reviewer for International Scientific Journals (e.g. "Science", "Nature", "Nature Reviews Neuroscience", "Journal of Neuroscience", "European Journal of Neuroscience", "Journal of Neurophysiology", "Neuroimage", "Experimental Brain Research", "Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience", "Trends in Neurosciences", "Trends in Cognitive Sciences", "Consciousness and Cognition")
- Reviewer for National and International Research Funding Organizations (e.g. German Research Council, BMBF, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Wellcome Trust, Humboldt Foundation, Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research)
- Co-Organization of conferences, including two Meetings of the German Cognitive Science Society (1999, 2001)
- Organization of workshops at Scientific Meetings (e.g. FENS, German Neuroscience Society)
- Organization of national and international summer schools (e.g. Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, EU-Network Neuro-IT)
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[International Collaborations and Research Visits]
- 1994-1997, joint Research Project with E. Ahissar, Weizmann Institute, Israel
- 1995 and 1996, several research visits to the Weizmann Institute, Israel
- 1995-1998, joint Research Project with P. König, The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, USA
- 1995, Research visit to The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego
- since 2001, joint project with R. Pfeifer (Zürich, Switzerland) and M. Diamond (Trieste, Italy)
- since 2001, joint project with H. Bergman and E. Vaadia (Jerusalem, Israel)
- since 2001, joint project wirh R. Goebel (Maastricht, The Netherlands)
- since 2003, joint project with P. Fries (Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
- since 2005, joint project with R. Horaud (Grenoble, France) and H. Araujo (Coimbra, Portugal)
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