Vita
- 1991-1994 BA Honours in Physiological Sciences, Oxford University, UK
- 1994-1997 DPhil in Neuroscience; Thesis title: ‘Ordering geniculate input into primary visual cortex’, Oxford University, UK
- 2010 Diploma in Psychology (Conversion for Postgraduates), Distinction, Open University, UK
Employment
- 2019- Heisenberg-Professor and Chair in Sensory Physiology, Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg & Leibniz-Institut für Neurobiologie, Germany
- 2014-2020 Associate Professor of Neuroscience at Oxford University, UK
- 2005-2015 Royal Society University Research Fellow, Oxford University, UK
- 2001-2005 Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow, Oxford University, UK
- 1998-2001 Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Scientist, Oxford University , UK
- 1998 Max-Planck Postdoctoral Scholar, MPI Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
Academic Activities
- Chair of Scientific Advisory Board of the German Primate Research Centre (DPZ) 2020 -
- Board of Reviewing Editors Elife 2019 –
- Scientific Advisory Board of the German Primate Research Centre (DPZ), Member and Deputy Chair 2018 – 2020;
- Scientific Advisory Board of the Göttingen Graduate School for Neurosciences, Biophysics, and Molecular Biosciences (GGNB) 2018 –
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), Scientific Evaluation Committee Integrated Neuroscience 2017 –
- Editorial Board, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 2014 – 2020
- UK Expert Group in NHP Neuroscience Research 2015 –
- Newton Advanced Fellowship Selection Panel (Selection of international research fellows) 2014 - 2020
- Hooke Committee of the Royal Society 2013 - 2016
- MRC Advisory Board for the Centre for Macaques (CFM) 2011 - 2019
- Royal Society Research Grant Panel 2012 - 2015
- Royal Society International Exchanges Scheme 2011 - 2013
- Royal Society International Travel Grants Panel 2009 - 2011
Awards
- 2021-2024 Visiting Professor of Neuroscience, Oxford University
- 2018 Heisenberg Professor (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [DFG])
- 2017 Understanding Animal Research Openness Award (with BMS colleagues Oxford)
- 2016 Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology ([FRSB] elected by resolution of council)
- 2006 Member of the European Platform for the Mind Sciences, the Life Sciences and the Humanities (Volkswagen Stiftung)
- 2006 Senior Research Fellow at Oriel College, Oxford University
- 2004 University Research Fellow of the Royal Society
- 2003 BA Mediafellow with BBC Radio Science Unit and BBC News Online
- 2003 Prize for the best contributed paper at the Rank Prize meeting “The Probabilistic Brain” in Cambridge
- 2002-2006 Hayward Junior Research Fellow at Oriel College, Oxford
- 2001-2005 Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship of the Royal Society
- 1999-2002 Prize Fellowship at Magdalen College, Oxford
- 1998 Rolleston Memorial Prize of Oxford University
- 1998 Glaxo-Wellcome Prize of the BNA for the most outstanding thesis
- 1994-1997 Wellcome Prize Scholarship (open competition)
- 1992-1997 Stipendiatin der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes