Curriculum Vitae

Appointments
2006-present
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
 
School of Engineering and Science
 
Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
   
2002-present
Senior Research Associate
 
Department of Health Sciences
 
Boston University, USA
   
2001-2005
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
 
School of Engineering and Science
 
International University Bremen, Germany
   
1999-2001
Research Associate
 
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
 
Boston University School of Medicine, USA
 
Education
 
1994-1999
Graduate studies, Computational neuroscience, PhD 1999
 
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Medicine
 
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
   
1994
Graduate studies, Computational neuroscience
 
Laboratory of Physiology, Oxford University, UK
   
1992-1994
Undergraduate studies, Biophysics, MS (German Diplom) 1994 
1988-1991
Institute of Biophysics
 
Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
   
1991-1992
Undergraduate studies, Neuroscience
 
Edinburgh University, UK
 
Ad-hoc Reviewer
 

Journals:  BMC Neuroscience;  Cerebral Cortex;  Experimental Brain Research;  Human Brain Mapping;  Journal of Physiology; Journal of Computational Neuroscience;  Journal of Neuroscience;  Journal of Neuroscience Methods;  Neural Networks;  NeuroImage;  Neuroinformatics;  Physical Review Letters; Philosophical Transactions Royal Society London B; PLoS Biology;  PLoS Computational Biology; Proceedings National Academy of Sciences USA; Vision Research, and others

 

Institutional: Center for Complexity Science; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft;  Fortüne Programme; Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

 
Advisor
 
Reviewing Editor, Frontiers in Neuroinformatics
Scientific Advisory Board, Lifeboat Foundation
 
 
Awards
 
2002
IUB Involvement Award
1999-2001
Wellcome Trust Prize International Travelling Fellowship
1996-1999
Wellcome Trust Prize Studentship in Mathematical Biology
1994
Royal Society Summer Studentship
1992-1994
Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes Scholarship