Responsible Investigator
Academic Appointments | |
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Since 2015 | Senior Researcher, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Bielefeld University |
2012 – 2014 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Bielefeld University |
2008 – 2011 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Neurobiology Department, Bielefeld University |
2006 – 2007 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia |
since 2005 | Associated member of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Vision Science, Autralian National University, Canberra, Australia |
2004 – 2006 | Emmy-Noether-Scholarship (DFG), Visual Science Group, Research School of Biological Sciences, Autralian National University, Canberra, Australia |
2003 – 2004 | Research Associate (Bielefeld University) |
Education | |
1999 – 2003 | Doctoral Thesis “Mechanisms underlying chasing behaviour of male blowflies” in the laboratory of Prof. M. Egelhaaf, Neurobiology Department, Bielefeld University, |
1999 – 2003 | Member of the Graduate and Postdoctoral Programme "Strategies & Optimisation of Behaviour" |
1998 | Diploma-Thesis, "Visual control of chasing behaviour of blowflies (Lucilia spec.)" in the laboratory of Prof. M. Egelhaaf, Neurobiology Department, Bielefeld University |
1993 – 1998 | Undergraduate Studies in Biology at Bielefeld University, Bielefeld (Germany), Subsidiary subject: Psychology |
1992 | Civilian service |
1991 | General qualification for university entrance (~‘A-levels’) |
My research interests are in the interdisciplinary area between neuroscience and ethology. I want to understand how the nervous system translates stimuli into behavioural activity. Currently, my main topic is the sensorimotor integration of multimodal cues for navigation. More narrowly I study computational mechanisms of path planning and navigation in humans.
Previous research on view-based homing in bees in the media
Science Daily on Bee Vision: "Artificial Bee Eye Gives Insight Into Insects' Visual World"
Wasp Homing: "See The World Through A Wasps-Perspective"
List of Publications
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