Research interests

Physics instrumentation, physical foundations of information processing, physical models of neural circuits, experimental particle physics more ...

Short biography

seit 2016 : Vice-Chair of the science and infrastructure board and member of the directorate of the Human Brain Project - 2016 : Fellow of the European Physical Society (EPS) - since 2011 : Director for neuromorphic computing of the EU HBP FET Flagship Project - 2011 - 2015 : Invited Professor at EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland) - 2010 - 2015 : Coordinator of the EU BrainScale S Consortium - 2009-2013 : Coordinator of the Marie-Curie Network FACETS-ITN - 2009-2013 : Member of the Board of the German Physical Society - 2007-2009 : President of ECFA and European delegate of ICFA - 2005-2010 : Coordinator of the EU FACETS Consortium - 2000 : Award for Excellence in Teaching from the State of Baden-Württemberg - 1999 : Founding Director of the Kirchhoff Institut für Physik - 1994-2012 : Project leader of the LHC-ATLAS Trigger PreProcessor - 1994 : Founding Director of the Laboratory for Microelectronics Heidelberg - since 1992 : Chair Experimental Physics, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg - 1990-1992 : Scientific Staff (tenure) at DESY (Hamburg) - 1986-1990 : Scientific Staff Member at CERN (Geneva, Switzerland) - 1984-1986 : Research Fellow at CERN (Geneva, Switzerland) - 1984 : Ph.D. in Physics from Hamburg University - 1981 : Diploma in Physics from Hamburg University.

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