Stephan Junek

EDUCATION

College / University

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
University of California, San Diego

Highest Degree

Vordiplom

Major Subjects

Biophysics

Country

Germany

Lab Experience

Civil Service at the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam; student assistant at the Fraunhofer Institut; student assistant at the Salk Institute San Diego, USA

Projects / Research

Firing reliably with unreliable synapses. Sejnowski lab, Salk Institute, CNL
NanoVirDetect: Detection of viral particles. Fraunhofer Gesellschaft Berlin
Firing reliably with unreliable synapses. Fellous JM, Spencer D, Wang HP, Junek S, Eagleman DM, Sejnowski TJ (2003). Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans

Scholarships / Awards

2003 – 2004:	Stipend by the International Max Planck Research School
2002:	Humboldt-Stipendium

SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS AND GOALS

I am interested in finding basic principles that underlie the functions of the nervous system. Examining species with comparable simple nervous systems might help to find and understand those principles. In applying them to more complex systems, one might be able to understand how a brain is able to recognize, memorize, learn and think.