Funding

2017-… : DFG Emmy-Noether Programm grant to establish an independent research group at the Neuroscience Research Center of the Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin.
2014-2017: Humboldt Post-Doc Fellowship for postdoctoral work in the labs of Richard Kempter (Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) and James Poulet (Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine) in Berlin.
2012-2014: DFG Research Fellowship for postdoctoral work in the lab of Jose-Manuel Alonso (State University of New York College of Optometry, New York, USA).
Advisory activities
I was an active member of the “Next Generation Leaders Council” of the Allen Institute for Brain Science (www.alleninstitute.org) from 2016-2019.
Ongoing collaborations
Daniela Vallentin (MPI for Ornithology Seewiesen, Seewiesen, Germany)
Jose-Manuel Alonso (State University of New York College of Optometry, New York, USA)
James Poulet (Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Berlin, Germany)
Robert Sachdev (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany)
Matthew Larkum (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany)
Lucy Palmer (University of Melbourne)
Richard Naud (University of Ottawa)
Saskia de Vries (Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, USA)
Dan Millman (Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, USA)
Arvind Kumar (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden)
Past collaborations
Qasim Zaidi (State University of New York College of Optometry, New York, USA)
Richard Kempter (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany)
Ad Aertsen (Bernstein Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany)
Stefan Rotter (Bernstein Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany)
Guillaume Masson (CNRS, Marseille, France)
Laurent Perrinet (CNRS, Marseille, France)
Frédéric Chavane (CNRS, Marseille, France)
Yves Frégnac (CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
Andrew Davison (CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France)