Group Leader Primate Neurobiology


  • since 2008 Professor for Primate Neurobiology, University of Göttingen and Deutsches Primatenzentrum GmbH
  • 2004-2009 Work group leader, Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH / University of Zürich, Switzerland
  • 2000-2004 Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology
  • 1998-2000 Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology
  • 1995-1998 Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept of Neurology, University of Zürich, Switzerland
  • 1996 Dr. med. (MD), University of Freiburg, Germany
  • 1993 Dipl. math. (MS Math), University of Freiburg, Germany

  • Major Research Interests

    • Neurophysiology of primate hand function
    • Cortical representations of hand movements
    • Brain-machine interfaces

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