Full Professor
Laboratory for Computational Neuroscience,
LCN
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
School of Computer and Communication Sciences and
School of Life Sciences ,
Brain Mind Institute
EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
CH-1015 Lausanne
Oct. 83 -Feb. 89: Physics student at the University of Tuebingen and the Ludwig--Maximilian--University in Munich, Diploma thesis in experimental quantum optics.
Mar. 89 -Aug. 89: Post graduate research in theoretical physics at the Ludwig--Maximilian--University in Munich. Statistical theory of neural networks.
Sep. 89 -Aug. 90: Post graduate research in Neural Networks at the University of California in Berkeley (Theoretical Biophysics, group of William Bialek).
Sep. 90 -Feb. 93: PhD research at the Technical University of Munich (Theoretical Biophysics, group of Leo van Hemmen) on `Coding and Signal Transmission in Neural Systems: Associative Networks with Spiking Neurons'
Mar. 93 - Sep. 95: PostDoc in Munich. Research in Theoretical Neuroscience. Special emphasis on Neural Networks with spiking neurons and the problem of temporal coding.
Sep. 95 - Dec. 95: Visiting Researcher at Brandeis Univ., Waltham, USA Research on a model of path planning using ideas of Hebbian learning and rat hippocampal place fields (work with Larry Abbott).
Jan. 96 - July 96: Continuing as a PostDoc in Munich.
Aug. 96 - Jan 2001: Assistant Professor for Neural Computation at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL).
Feb. 2001 - June 2006: Associate Professor, Chair for Computational Neuroscience at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL).
Since
July 2006:
Full Professor, Chair for Computational Neuroscience at the
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL),
School of Computer and Communication Sciences and School of Life Sciences
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