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Education

• 1991-1994 BA Honors 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 University Magdeburg & Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, 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

• Board of Reviewing Editors Elife 2019 –
• Scientific Advisory Board of the German Primate Research Center (DPZ), Member and Deputy Chair 2018 –
• 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 Center 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 in Neuroscience, DPAG, University of Oxford, UK
• 2018 Heisenberg Professor (German Research Foundation [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 Foundation)
• 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 scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation