Prof. em. Dr. Ad Aertsen
Neurobiology and Biophysics
Bernstein Center Freiburg &
Faculty of Biology
University of Freiburg
Hansastraße 9a
Room 01 009
79104 Freiburg
Germany
ad.aertsen@biologie.uni-freiburg.de
Principal Investigator in
- A1-BFNT: Connecting brain activity across levels of resolution
- A2-BFNT: Voluntary control of neuronal correlations for Brain-Machine-Interfaces (BMIs)
- A3-BFNT: Co-Adaptivity of brain and machine: interaction of two learning systems
- EuroSPIN
- NeuroTime
Research Topics
- Recording
- Analysis and modeling of neuronal activity in cortical networks
- Neural assembly coding
- Cortical dynamics
- Brain theory
- Computational neuroscience
- Brain-machine interfacing, neuroprostheses
Techniques
- Single- and multiple-neuron recordings in slices and in vivo
- Design and application of advanced data analysis techniques for neuronal and behavioral data
- Neural network modeling using mathematics and large-scale network simulations
- Coding and decoding algorithms
Academic Background
- 1966 - 1973: Studies in Physics and Applied Mathematics, University Utrecht (NL)
- 1973 - 1981: PhD studies, Dept. Medical Physics & Biophysics, University Nijmegen (NL)
- 1981: Dr (comp. PhD) in Physics
Professional Background
- 1981 - 1982: Postdoc Biophysics, Dept Med Phys & Biophys, Univ Nijmegen, NL
- 1983 - 1984: Postdoc Physiol, Dept. Physiol, Univ. Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
- 1984 - 1990: Research Associate, MPI Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen
- 1990 - 1994: Workgroup leader, Institute for Neuroinformatics, Ruhr-University Bochum
- 1994 - 1996: Associate Professor, Dept. Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot (Israel)
- 1996 - present: Professor in Neurobiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biology III, University of Freiburg, Germany
Scientific Honors, Editorial Boards, Other Scientific Activities
- 1990 - 1991: Lady Davis and Minerva Visiting Professor, Dept. Physiology, Hadassah Medical School, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem (Israel)
- 1995 - present: Editorial Boards: Editorial Boards: Biological Cybernetics, J Neuroscience Meth, Neuroinformatics, Neural Computation, Frontiers Journals: Computational Neurosci, Neuroinformatics, Neuroengineering
- 1997 - 2004: Editorial Board Theory in Biosciences
- 1997 - present: Faculty Member, International (EU,FENS,IBRO,Riken) Summer Schools and Training Programs in Computational Neuroscience (Crete, Trieste, Riken, Obidos, Okinawa, Arcachon, Freiburg)
- 1999 - present: President of NeurAG - Neuroscience Federation Freiburg
- 1999 - present: Member Scientific Board Neurex - Tri-National Network of Neurosciences Upper Rhine Valley
- 2000 - 2006: Vice-Dean, Faculty of Biology
- 2001 - present: Editorial Board Journal of Neuroscience Methods
- 2001 - present: Board of Directors, Center for Neuroscience (Zentrum für Neurowissenschaften ZfN), University Freiburg
- 2002 - present: Editorial Board Neuroinformatics
- 2003 - 2004: Elected Member Board of Directors, Computational Neuroscience Organization
- 2003 - present: Action Editor Neural Computation
- 2003 - 2006: Course Director, IBRO/FENS/EU Advanced Course Computational Neuroscience, Obidos (Portugal), Arcachon (France)
- 2004 - 2013: Coordinator and Founding Member, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Freiburg
- 2007 - present: Executive Board, Spemann Grad. School of Biology and Medicine (SGBM)
- 2007 - 2010: Elected Member Executive Board and Spokesman Section Computational Neuroscience, German Neuroscience Society (NWG)
- 2007 - present: Member Scientific Board, European Interdisciplinary Graduate School "Frontiers in Life Sciences", École Normale Supérieure, Univ. Descartes (Paris V) and Univ. Paris Diderot (Paris VII), Paris
- 2007 - 2010: Associate Editor, PLoS Computational Biology
- 2007 - present: Review Editor, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, Frontiers in Neuroengineering
- 2008 - 2010: Chair, National Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience, Germany
- 2008 - 2010: Dean of the Faculty of Biology
- 2010 - present: Elected Member, Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 2010 - present: Vice-Dean (Prodekan), Faculty of Biology
- 2011 - present: Advisory Board, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
- 2011 - present Member Advisory Board, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
- 2012 - 2014 Executive Board and Founding Member EC BrainLinks-BrainTools
- 2012 - 2014 Dean (Dekan), Faculty of Biology
- 2014 - present Vice-Dean (Prodekan), Faculty of Biology
Publications
Papers in Journals, Books, Book Chapters