Gail, Alexander, Prof. Dr.

Professor for Sensorimotor Neuroscience and Neuroprosthetics

• 1997: Physics Diploma, Philipps University, Marburg
• 2002: Dr. rer. nat. (Physics) Philipps University, Marburg
• 2002-2003: Postdoc (Neurophysics Laboratory of R. Eckhorn, Marburg)
• 2003-2006: Postdoc (Laboratory of R. Andersen, Pasadena, CA, USA)
• since 2006: Head of Sensorimotor Research Group, German Primate Center and Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience
• since 2012: Professor for Sensorimotor Neuroscience and Neuroprosthetics, University of Göttingen
• since 2022: Speaker of the collaborative research center SFB-1528 “Cognition of Interaction”
  

Major Research Interests
Decision making, action planning, sensorimotor integration, spatial cognition, motor cognition, social cognition, brain-computer interfaces, neuroprosthetics;
Methods: awake monkey electrophysiology, extracellular multi-channel microelectrode recordings, psychophysics in human and non-human primates, free behavior


Homepage Department/Research Group
http://www.dpz.eu/smg
http://www.bccn-goettingen.de/Groups/gail
www.sfb1528.uni-goettingen.de

ORCID: 0000-0002-1165-4646