Scientific and professional career
since 2012: Tenure position: Professor of Neuroscience, Jacobs University Bremen, JCLL
since 2010: Co-Speaker of Research Center “AgeAct – Interaction of Aging Processes” at Jacobs University (together with Ursula M. Staudinger)
since 2008: Member of Center for Cognitive Science, University Bremen
2005-2011: Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Human Performance at Jacobs Center on Lifelong Learning (JCLL), Jacobs University Bremen
Aug – Dec 2004: Visiting Professor at SISSA/ISAS International School for Advanced Studies, Cognitive Neuroscience Sector, Trieste, Italy
Apr – Dec 2004: Visiting Scientist at the University of Tübingen, Dept. Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology
1998-2004: Head of the research group: ‘Cortical Reorganization and Learning’, Dept. Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen
1993-1998: Research Assistant at the Institute for Neuroinformatics, Ruhr-University of Bochum
1996: PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) awarded by the Department of Biology, Ruhr-University of Bochum
Thesis: Optische Registrierung intrinsischer Signale: Repräsentationen und Plastizität in primären sensorischen Kortizes (Optical imaging of intrinsic signals: representations and plasticity in primary sensory cortices); Supervisor: PD Dr. Hubert Dinse, Prof. Werner v. Seelen
1993: Diploma (“Diplom-Biologe”) awarded by the Department of Biology, Ruhr-University of Bochum
Thesis: Plastizität im primären somatosensorischen Cortex (SI) der Ratte (Plasticity in the primary somatosensory cortex (SI) of rats)
1986 – 1992: Study of Biology at the Ruhr-University of Bochum
Awards
1998: Volkswagen Foundation: head of a ‘junior research group’
2005: Tursky Award for Excellence in Psychophysiological Research (together with Ahmed A. Karim; awarded at the 45th annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) in Lissabon, Portugal)
2007: Sparkassenpreis der Unifreunde Bremen for cooperative projects between University Bremen and Jacobs University, together with Claudia Voelcker-Rehage, Ekkehard Küstermann, Peter Erhard (both University Bremen), and Markus Ebke (Hospital Bremen-Centre)