Employment Education Grants Other

Employment   

since 01.2011

Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Bielefeld. PI on DFG grant "ELAPS: Embodied Latency Adaptation and the Perception of Simultaneity".

09.2008 - 12.2010

Multisensory Perception and Action Group (NGW Ernst), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen. Postdoctoral Researcher.

05.2008 - 08.2008

Ikegami Lab, University of Tokyo, Japan. JSPS Short Term Postdoctoral Fellow.

Education   

10.2004 - 04.2008

Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics (CCNR), University of Sussex, UK. D.Phil. in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence.

09.2006 - 01.2007

Groupe Suppléance Perceptive (GSP), Technical University of Compiegne (UTC), France. ERASMUS research stay.

10.2003 - 09.2004

University of Sussex, UK. MSc in Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems (with distinction).

10.2000 - 09.2003

University of Osnabrück, Germany. BSc in Cognitive Science (with distinction).

02.2003 - 09.2003

Intelligent Dynamical Systems Group (InDy) at the Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems (AIS) in St. Augustin, Germany. Student researcher (internship + BSc project).

07.2002 - 01.2003

University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica. Semester abroad.

09.1999 - 07.2000

Leibniz Kolleg, Tübingen, Germany. General Studies ("Studium Generale").

Awards and grants   

01.2011 - 12.2013

DFG Grant ELAPS: Embodied Latency Adaptation and the Perception of Simultaneity (Eigene Stelle)

05.2008 - 08.2008

JSPS Short Term Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Ikegami Lab, University of Tokyo, Japan.

10.2004 - 09.2007

Teaching Assistantship for doctorate students by the School of Science and Technology, University of Sussex.

10.2003 - 09.2004

EPSRC scholarship for the MSc Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems at the University of Sussex.

01.2003

MLP-Award for Excellence in Studies, Univ. of Osnabrück.

09.2002 - 12.2003

Semester Scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for a semester abroad in Costa Rica.

Other   

Languages

German (native), English (native level), Spanish, French (fluent), Japanese (beginner).

Skills
  • Experimental: human psychophysics, human motor behaviour, virtual reality, basic human EEG
  • Programming languages: Java, Matlab, C, C++, Prolog, HTML, CSS, PHP, javascript, Latex
  • Other formal: Data analysis/statistics, data modelling, neural networks, physics simulations, computer graphics (Open GL), genetic algorithms, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics
Editing
  • Adaptive Behavior special issue on Agency in Natural and Artificial Systems with Takashi Ikegami.
Organisational Involvement
  • Organisation of the annual retreats of the Cognitive Neuroscience Department University of Bielefeld, 2012 and 2013.
  • Organising committee of the 1., 2. and 3. CNRS summer school Enaction and Cognitive Science (various locations in France).
  • Co-organisation of the Workshop on Agency in Natural and Artificial Systems, 11.-12.07.2008 in Kyoto, Japan.
  • Co-organiser of The Cyborg Experiment at the Cheltenham Festival of Science 2005.
Reviewing I have been peer-reviewing for the following institutions and journals: Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), Journal of Neuroscience, PLOS Computational Biology, PLOS One, Cognition, Neuropsychologia, Adaptive Behavior, Consciousness and Cognition, European Journal of Neuroscience, Multisensory Research, Algorithms, European Conference on Artificial Life (2011 Workshop on Artificial Autonomy).