Priesemann, Viola - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Max Planck Research Group Leader Neural Systems Theory

since 2022: Group Leader, MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organizaiton, and Professor, Department of Physics, Georg-August University Göttingen
since 2016: Max Planck Research Group Leader, MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany
01/2017 – 03/2017: Guest Researcher, Ernst-Strüngmann-Institute, Frankfurt
2014 – 2016: Bernstein Fellow and Group Leader, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience & MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany
2013 – 2014: PostDoc, MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany
2013: PhD, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
2008 – 2013: Research Projects at the Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris, France), Caltech
Pasadena, USA), MPI for Brain Research & FIAS (Frankfurt, Germany)

Honours, Grants & Service to the Community

since 2023: member of the Göttingen Academy of Science and Humanities
2022: Lise Meitner Lecturer, German Physical Society (DPG) and Austrian Physical Society (ÖPG)
2022: Arthur Burkhardt Award
2021: Dannie Heineman Award of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
2021: Lower Saxony Science Prize
2021:Communitas Prize, Max Planck Society
since 2021: member of Junge Akademie
since 2020: Associated to the Max Planck - U of Toronto Centre of Neurophysics
since 2020: Lead-PI in a project of the SPP 2205 “Evolutionary Optimisation of Neuronal Processing”
since 2019: Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society
since 2019: Initiation of the “Göttingen Neural Networking” Days
2016 – 2017: German-Israel Foundation (GIF) Young Investigator Grant
since 2015: Fellow of the Schiemann Kolleg of the Max Planck Society
2014 – 2016: Bernstein Fellow
2010: Thomas B. Grave and Elizabeth F. Grave Scholarship

Major Research Interests