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Chair, Section Neurophysiology & Neuroinformatics
Essen, Germany
Essen, Wien, Wuhan, Manchester, Montpellier, London
Medicine, Anatomy, Neuroinformatics
I want to find out "how the brain works" and was attracted by the neural network models of the 1980s. Realizing that those were only sketches of the real brain and its function I became interested in the heterogeneity of the connections between neurons, as well as of entire brain areas.
My group now focusses on the following aspects of brain connectivity:
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Mapping the microcircuitry of the cerebral cortex using our development of the flash-induced release of caged transmitter substances
- Collating the macrocircuitry of the cerebral cortex with advanced neuroinformatics tools for subsequent mapping and comparison with functional data
- Systems approaches to modelling and analysis of network properties for multi-scale integration of structural and functional data modalities
Doctoral
thesis in the laboratory of "O.-E."
Brodde with a combined pharmacological, biochemical, and physiological
characterization of alpha adrenoceptors.
Research
fellow at the Dept.
of Anatomy & Structural Biology, University of Otago in Dunedin,
New Zealand, working with Jeff Wickens and Robert Miller on computer
models of striatal mechanisms.
Helmholtz
scholarship at the C.
& O. Vogt Brain Research Institute headed by Karl Zilles starting
the Computational | Systems | Neuroscience group.
Habilitation
on "Structural determinants of cortical information processing" using
a combination of morphological, electrophysiological and computational
approaches to investigate activity propagation and information processing
in the cerebral cortex.
Specialist
in anatomy and professor with a joint appointment at the Vogt Brain
Research Institute and the Institute
of Anatomy II.
EU
Thematic network "Computational Neuroscience" (coordinated by Erik De
Schutter)
DFG
("Algorithmic analysis of neural connectivity" with Egon Wanke; Graduate
School 320 AG Kötter/Zilles)
Boehringer
Ingelheim Foundation ("Brain connectivity" workshops with Karl Friston
and Pedro Valdes-Sosa)
External
Advisory Board of the Neuroinformatics
Doctoral Training Centre, Univ. of Edinburgh
