Professional positions

since 2004 Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin: Coordinator TU Berlin & ExCom member

since 2001 Full professor (C4), Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, TU Berlin, Germany

1999-2001 Chair of the Department of Computer Science, TU Berlin, Germany

1997-1999 Vice-chair of the Department of Computer Science, TU Berlin, Germany

1995-2001 Associate professor (C3), Department of Computer Science, TU Berlin, Germany

1994-1995 Hochschulassistent (C1), Technische Fakultät, University of Bielefeld, Germany

1993-1994 Postdoctoral training at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA, USA

1992-1993 Postdoctoral training at the Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA

1989-1992 Student research position at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign and the NationalCenter for Supercomputing Application, Urbana, IL, USA

Professional qualifications

1992 PhD in physics (summa cum laude), Technical University of Munich, Germany

1987 Diplom degree (final grade 1.0) in physics, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Research fields

Computational neuroscience (visual system, neural coding, adaptation, plasticity)

Machine learning and artificial neural networks

Analysis of neural data

Pattern recognition applications