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1972 |
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German |
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married |
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two
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Education
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School |
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1992 |
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Abitur at the 'Hohe Landesschule Hanau' |
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Social Service |
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June/1992-Sept/1993 |
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Kreiskrankenhaus (hospital) Gelnhausen |
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University |
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Oct/1993 – Feb/2000 |
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Studies
of Biology at the Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg |
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Diploma thesis |
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“Context Generalization in Drosophila melanogaster" at the Department of Genetics and Neurobiology (supervisor: Prof. Dr. M. Heisenberg) |
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Aug/1997 – June/1998 |
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Research project at the University of Edinburgh/Scotland: “Navigation strategies in threespined sticklebacks” (supervisor: Dr. V. Braithwaite) |
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May/2000 – Dec 2004 |
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Doctoral thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics. Tübingen (supervisors: Prof. Dr. H.A. Mallot & Prof. Dr. H.H. Bülthoff) |
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May 2004 |
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Dr. rer. nat. in Biology (summa cum laude): "Places and Regions in Perception, Route Planning, and Spatial Memory" |
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Feb/2004 – Jan/2006 |
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Research
scientist Cognitive Neuroscience Department, University of Tübingen |
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Feb/2006 -
Dec/2008 |
Research scientist at the
College de France, LPPA, Paris, France |
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Jan/2008 - Sept/2009 |
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Research
Scientist at the Centre for Cognitive Science Freiburg, Germany |
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Senior Lecturer in
Psychology at
Bournemouth University,
United Kingdom
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Awards and Third-party funds |
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Travel award by the Euresco (European Research Conferences) |
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Travel award by the “Reinhold und Maria Teufel Stiftung” |
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Research award (2000 €) by the “Reinhold und Maria Teufel Stiftung” for excellent scientific performance |
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| Research stipend (2006-2007) by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) | ||
| Research grant by the
VW-Stiftung (2007-2009) |
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Teaching & Mentoring Experience |
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Lecture "Spatial Cognition" in the Graduate School of Neural and Behavioral Science, University of Tübingen |
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| Supervision of sevel Diploma theses at the Cognitive Neuroscience Department (University of Tübingen) | ||
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Supervision of several lab-rotations in the Graduate School of Neural and Behavioral Science, University of Tübingen |
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Supervision of several practicals, both at the University of Tübingen and at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics |
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Seminar: “Grundfragen in den Neurowissenschaften” at the University of Tübingen |
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Additional activities & projects |
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During my PhD I was involved in the design an implementation of a C++ software library that allows for fast and easy development distributed realtime virtual reality experiments (see http://velib.kyb.mpg.de). |
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Together with Prof. Dr. H.A. Mallot and Dr. N. Krämer, I organized the Interdisciplinary College (IK2005) in Günne with the focus theme: "Real, Mental, and Virtual Spaces" |
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Reviewer for the Spatial Cognition IV - Reasoning, Action, Interaction. International Conference Spatial Cognition 2004, Frauenchiemsee, Germany, October 2004 |
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Reviewer for the Spatial Cognition V . International Conference Spatial Cognition 2006, Bremen, Germany, September 2006 |
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| Member of the Programm Committee of the annually Interdisciplinary College, a one-week spring school which offers a dense, intensive and state-of-the-art course program in neurobiology, neural computation, cognitive science/psychology, artificial intelligence, robotics and philosophy. | ||
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Organizer of the workshop "Biologically inspired models of spatial behavior: insights from animals" to be held at the Spatial Cognition 2008 |
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