People

Participants SMARTSTART 1

2019/20 | 2018/19 | 2017/18 | 2016/17

Participants SMARTSTART 2

2019/20 | 2018/19 | 2017/18 | 2016/17

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Faculty

The SMARTSTART core faculty is responsible for organizing and running the program. They are supported by the associated faculty at the respective institutions who agreed to participate in the teaching of the SMARTSTART program.

Members of the faculty can be mentors for SMARTSTART participants during the 12-month program. They advice and guide students in the selection of their courses to complement their previous studies and extend their scientific skills. For SMARTSTART 2, at least one mentor has to be SMARTSTART faculty member.

Members of the SMARTSTART faculty are from various institutions in Germany and represent many aspects of research fields within computational neuroscience:

Berlin
Klaus Obermayer*	Neural information processing
Petra Ritter*	Brain simulation
Susanne Schreiber*	Computational neurophysiology
Bielefeld
Martin Egelhaaf*	Neurobiology
Bochum
Sen Cheng*	Computational neuroscience
Bremen
Adele Diederich*	Cognitive science
Udo Ernst*	Theoretical neurophysics
Chemnitz
Fred Hamker*	Neurocognitive models
Cologne
Martin Nawrot*	Computational systems neuroscience
Cottbus-Senftenberg
Stefan Glasauer	Sensorimotor
Darmstadt
Constantin Rothkopf*	Computational cognition
Frankfurt a. M.
Hermann Cuntz	Computational neuroanatomy
Julijana Gjorgjieva	Computation in neural circuits
Matthias Kaschube*	Assembly, function, and maintainance of brain circuits
Tatjana Tchumatchenko	Theory of neural dynamics
Visvanathan Ramesh*	Systems engineering for visual intelligence
Freiburg i. Br.
Ulrich Egert	Neurophysiology, neurotechnology
Stefan Rotter*	Dynamics and plasticity of brain networks
Gießen
Roland Fleming*	Experimental psychology
Peter Jedlicka	Computer-based modelling
Göttingen
Andreas Neef*	Biophysics of neural computation
Viola Priesemann	Neural dynamics and information processing
Michael Wibral	Data-driven understanding of cortical information processing
Fred Wolf*	Neural circuit evolution
Hamburg
Claus Hilgetag*	Brain connectivity
Jülich/Aachen
Markus Diesmann*	Computational neurophysics
Sonja Grün*	Statistical neuroscience
Moritz Helias	Theory of multi-scale neural networks
Leipzig
Jürgen Jost*	Theory of cognition and mathematical neuroscience
Magdeburg
Jochen Braun*	Cognition biology
Munich
Andreas Herz*	Computational neuroscience
Werner Hemmert	Bio-inspired information processing
Christian Leibold*	Computational neuroscience
Jakob Macke*	Computational neuroengineering
Oldenburg
Jannis Hildebrandt	Auditory neuroscience
Jutta Kretzberg	Computational neuroscience
Osnabrück
Peter König*	Computational cognition
Gordon Pipa	Cognitive science
Tübingen
Jan Benda*	Neuroethology
Philipp Berens	Vision research
Matthias Bethge*	Perceiving neural networks
Peter Dayan	Decision making in the brain
Anna Levina	Self-organization, criticality and optimality
Zhaoping Li	Computational vision/olfaction
Fabian Sinz	Neuronal building blocks of intelligence
Felix Wichmann	Neural information processing

*Member of the core facutly

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Participants of SMARTSTART 1

2019/2020

Name	Current affiliation
Eliana Alejandra Bohorquez Puentes	BCCN Berlin & TU Berlin
Elisa Brauße	Bremen University
Marika Constant	Mind & Brain - HU zu Berlin
Eoin Dooley	HU zu Berlin
Lydia Federmann	Tübingen University
Martin Gell	Mind & Brain - HU zu Berlin
Elvin Hajizada	TU Munich
Philipp Hummel	Tübingen University
Akshay Kumar Jagadish	Tübingen University
Janis Keck	FU Berlin
Dominik Kessler	Oldenburg University
Matthias Loidolt	TU Dresden
Lukas Paulun	Freiburg University & BCF
Irina Pochinok	Bremen University
Kevin Sandbote	Oldenburg University

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2018/2019

Name	Current affiliation
Alana Darcher	LMU Munich
Jahangir Esfandari	Magdeburg University
Stephan Goerttler	Heidelberg University
David Hain	Frankfurt University
Helen Heinermann	Jade Hochschule Oldenburg
Taliana Herrera	FU Berlin
Maike Holler	Bremen University
Tianlin Liu	FMI for Biomedical Research Basel
Flavia Nährlich	Amsterdam University
Elisa Pavarino	TU Munich
Judith Schepers	Tübingen University
Laura State	Tübingen University
Nelly von Putkammer	Bremen University
Shuchen Wu	ETH Zurich

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2017/2018

Name	Current affiliation
Nicolas Berberich	TU Munich
Dominic Gonschorek	Tübingen University
Aram Grigoryan	Bonn University
Jan Kirchner	MPI brain research Frankfurt
Sandra Kohl	University of Freiburg
Christoph Miehl	MPI brain research Frankfurt
Gerion Nabbefeld	RWTH Aachen
Sebastian Onasch	Frankfurt University
Lisa Schmors	Institute for Ophthalmic Research Tübingen University & IMPRS Tübingen
Steffen Schneider	TU Munich
Sigrid Trägernap	MPI brain research Frankfurt
Ardhendu Tripathi	KTH Stockholm
Varsha Vasudevan	Frankfurt University
Hakan Yilmaz	Freiburg University

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2016/2017

Name	Current affiliation
Jan Bölts	TU Munich
Richard Gast	MPI Cognitive and Human Brain Sciences Leipzig
Xu He	Jacobs University Bremen
Julian Hinz	FMI for Biomedical Research Basel
Bo Hu	Heidelberg University
Alona Kharchenko	TU Munich
Ann-Kathrin Kießner	Freiburg University
Pranav Mamidanna	KTH Stockholm
Virginia Palieri	MPI of Neurobiology Munich
Arne Pelzer	Oldenburg University
Simon Renner	LMU Munich
Alex Schwarz	TU Chemnitz
Maik Schünemann	Bremen University
Karolina Stosio	Volkswagen Group Machine Learning Research Lab

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Participants of SMARTSTART 2

2019/2020

Name	Current affiliation
Davide Crombie	LMU Munich
Jonas Dehning	MPI Göttingen
Agnessa Karapetian	TU Berlin
Oliver Maith	TU Chemnitz
Tamara Müller	TU Munich
Adrián Palacios Muñoz	Göttingen University
Fabian Pallasdies	Bonn University
Marina Slashcheva	Göttingen University
Paul Spitzner	MPI Göttingen
Anna Titova	Freiburg Universitx
Juan Felipe Vargas Fique	Göttingen University

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2018/2019

Name	Current affiliation
Kayson Fakhar	Oldenburg University
Aaron Gutknecht	Osnabrück University
Jan Lause	Tübingen University
Marita Metzler	Cologne University
Nicolas Roth	Heidelberg University
Lucas Rudelt	MPI for dynamics and self-organisation Göttingen
Steffen Scherer	Oldenburg University
Roxana Zeraati	University of Tübingen & MPI for Biological Cybernetics Tübingen

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2017/2018

Name	Current affiliation
Mahraz Behbod	HU zu Berlin
Abib Duut	Bremen University
Barbara Feulner	Imperial College London
Conor Heins	MPI for Animal Behavior Konstanz & Konstanz University
Maksims Ivanovs	Osnabrück University
Markus Lohmeyer	Oldenburg University
Lukas Sonnenberg	Tübingen University
Wenqing Wei	Freiburg University

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2016/2017

Name	Current affiliation
Yannik Bauer	Tübingen University
Johanna Bayer	Melbourne University
Santiago Cadena	Tübingen University
Paulina Dabrowska	FZ Jülich
Marina Hader	Freiburg University
Dennis Huben	Tübingen University
Madhura Ketkar	Göttingen University
Paul Pfeiffer	HU zu Berlin
Alina Schiffer	Bremen University
Kaue Werner	TU Munich

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News: Midsummer Brains - Computational Neuroscience from my point of view Mar 13, 2019; Course catalogue Mar 12, 2019; Cosyne 2019 Mar 12, 2019; Student activities in January Jan 28, 2019; Peter Dayan and Li Zhaoping join the faculty Jan 28, 2019; More news…

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