2011

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Present

Full Professor (W3) for Theoretical Neuroscience at Heidelberg University/ CIMH; part-time Professor for Computational
Neuroscience, School for Computing and Mathematics,
University of Plymouth, UK (since 2013)

 

 

2010

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Present

Coordinator of the Bernstein-Center for Computational Neuroscience Heidelberg-Mannheim

 

 

2008

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Present

Head of Computational Neuroscience Group at Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim

 

 

2005

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2008

Reader (Associate Professor) for Computational Neuroscience, Centre for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience, University of Plymouth, UK.

 

 

2000

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2005

Research Group Leader, Lab for Computational Neuroscience, Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany.

 

 

1998

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2000

Research Associate at Computational Neurobiology Lab, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, USA.

 

 

1998

 

 

Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D.) received from Ruhr-University of Bochum (Germany).

 

 

1994

 

 

Diploma: Major in Psychology, Minor in Mathematics.

 

 

1994

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1998

Ph.D. scholarship in Cognition, Brain, & Neural Networks graduate program, Ruhr-University Bochum.

 

 

1992

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1994

Student of Informatics at Technical University of Berlin, Germany

 

 

1989

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1994

Student of Psychology at Technical University of Berlin, Germany.

 

 

2008

 

 

Heisenberg-Award of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

 

 

2002

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2007

Membership in the 'Junge Akademie', a young scientists branch at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akad. der Wiss. (since 2008 National Academy of Science)

 

 

2000

 

 

Emmy-Noether-Award (Young Scientist Excellence Program) of the DFG

 

 

1998

 

 

Award of the Ruhr-University Bochum for outstanding Ph.D. thesis