Appointments &
Defending Against Appointments


CBBS Appointments and Defending Against Appointments

 

The CBBS has a vital interest in attracting and retaining excellent candidates with a background in neuroscience to the Magdeburg site. In order to appoint internationally recognised scientists to key professorships within the department, a portion of the CBBS budget is available to supplement appointment offers. Funds are also allocated to retention schemes to prevent appointments from being taken elsewhere by improving the resources available to professorships.

This measure safeguards excellence at the Magdeburg neuroscience hub and thereby strengthens the profile area in the long term.

To date, this performance-based funding for appointment or retention procedures has received CBBS funding totalling approximately €3 million.

 

The candidates supported by the CBBS to date are:

CBBS financial support for the appointment of Prof. Dr. Kristine Krug

Prof. Kristine Krug joined Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg in 2019 as a Heisenberg Professor and Chair of Sensory Physiology. Her research programme focuses on the neural circuits and mechanisms underlying perceptual decision-making. Her long-term scientific goal is to understand and control the neural signals that shape perception and decision-making, from the level of individual brain cells right up to mental states. She is currently a member of the editorial board of eLife, chair of the scientific advisory board of the German Primate Centre (DPZ) and a visiting professor at the University of Oxford.

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CBBS financial support for the defending against appointments of Prof. Dr. Oliver Stork

Prof. Oliver Stork is Head of the Department of Genetics & Molecular Neurobiology at the Institute of Biology, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg. His research focuses on understanding the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying the formation and specification of emotional memories. In particular, he concentrates on analysing local circuit processes involved in the formation of engram cell clusters in the hippocampus.

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CBBS financial support for the appointment of Prof. Dr. Jesko Verhey

Professor Jesko Verhey heads the Department of Experimental Audiology at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg. The department focuses on human auditory perception in both normal and pathological hearing conditions. The research focuses on fundamental questions regarding the mechanisms of auditory perception in complex acoustic environments and their significance in the perception of environmental sounds. Another focus is on audiological issues such as the reliable and differentiated assessment of hearing impairments and auditory perception with hearing aids such as cochlear implants (CI).

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CBBS financial support for the appointment of Prof. Dr. Daniela Dieterich

Professor Daniela C. Dieterich heads the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Faculty of Medicine of Otto von Guericke University and has also served as Dean of the Faculty since September 2020. In her capacity as Dean, she represents all matters relating to research and teaching on the University Hospital Board. In her research, Prof. Dieterich focused very early on investigating relevant questions relating to the study of neuronal damage and synaptic plasticity. Her research utilises an experimental tool she developed herself – the metabolic labelling of de novo synthesised proteins using functionalised molecular building blocks. Using this methodology, she investigates the regulation of neuronal and glial protein homeostasis under physiological and pathophysiological conditions. Dr Dieterich has been elected to the Senate Committee of the German Research Foundation (DFG) as well as to the governing body of German university medicine.

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CBBS financial support for the appointment of Prof. Dr. Markus Ullsperger

Prof. Markus Ullsperger has held the Chair of Neuropsychology at the Institute of Psychology at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg since 2012 and is also Director of the Centre for Behavioural Brain Sciences Magdeburg. For around 20 years, he has been investigating the structural, functional and neurochemical aspects of cognitive control and executive function. In doing so, he employs a multidisciplinary approach, combining EEG and fMRI with computational modelling and pharmacological intervention, in healthy subjects and populations with neurological or psychiatric disorders.

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CBBS financial support for the defending against appointments of Prof. Dr. Frank Ohl

Prof. Frank Ohl is Director of the Department of Systems Physiology of Learning at the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology in Magdeburg and holds the Chair of Neurobiology at the Institute of Biology within the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg. His background is in neurophysiology and physics. He has developed rodent models for cognitive processes (including concept learning and category formation) and investigates neural dynamics during learning using electrophysiological, optical and optogenetic methods. In collaboration with mathematicians and computer scientists, he also develops neurocomputational models of the experimentally investigated neural processes and contributes to the further development of machine learning methods through new neuro-inspired algorithms.

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CBBS financial support for the appointment of Prof. Dr. Tömme Noesselt

Prof. Tömme Noesselt is Director of the Institute of Psychology and Head of the Department of Biological Psychology at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg. He studied psychology and philosophy at the universities of Heidelberg, Düsseldorf and UCLA in the USA, obtained his PhD at the University of Magdeburg, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at UCL in the UK in Jon Driver’s laboratory. His research aims to identify the neural basis of multisensory perception and memory by combining behavioural data with electrophysiological and brain imaging techniques.

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