Prof. Dr. Laurenz Wiskott

Lebenslauf

2018-01 - 2018-05: Simons, Berkeley, California - Visiting scholar
Visiting scholar at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at the University of California, Berkeley, USA

since Nov 2008: INI, Bochum, Germany - Professor (W3)
Professor (W3) at the Institute for Neural Computation at the Ruhr-University Bochum

2006-2008: ITB, Berlin, Germany - Professor (W2)
Professor (W2) for Computational Neuroscience and Neuroinformatics at the Institute for Theoretical Biology at the Humboldt-University Berlin

2000-2006: ITB, Berlin, Germany - Junior research group leader
Junior research group leader at the Institute for Theoretical Biology at the Humboldt-University Berlin (supported by the Volkswagen Foundation)

1999-2000: ITB, Berlin, Germany - Research associate
Research associate with Prof. Andreas V. M. Herz at the Innovationskolleg Theoretische Biologie at the Humboldt-University Berlin

1998-1999: Wiko, Berlin, Germany - Fellow
Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin / Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, Germany

1995-1998: CNL, San Diego, California - Research associate
Research associate with Prof. Terrence Sejnowski at the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, California (supported by a Lynen Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany)

Oct. 1995: INI, Bochum, Germany - PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in physics

1993, 1994: USC, Los Angeles, California - Visiting research assistant
Visiting research assistant (6 months) at the Laboratory for Computational and Biological Vision at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California

1990-1995: INI, Bochum, Germany - Research assistant
Research assistant with Prof. Christoph von der Malsburg at the Institute for Neural Computation at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany with several visits at the Laboratory for Computational and Biological Vision at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California

Sep. 1990: Uni, Osnabrück, Germany - Diploma in physics
Diploma in physics at the University Osnabrück, Germany

1989-1990: Uni, Osnabrück, Germany - Studies of physics
Studies of physics at the University Osnabrück, Germany

1986-1988: MPI, Göttingen, Germany - Undergraduate research assistant
Undergraduate research assistant at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, developing an operating system for a parallel computer

1985-1989: Uni, Göttingen, Germany - Studies of physics
Studies of physics at the University Göttingen, Germany

Lehrveranstaltungen

310003 : Machine Learning: Unsupervised Methods

310504 : Computational Neuroscience: Vision and Memory