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Anna Martius receives prestigious Sofja Kovalevskaja Award 2017 of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
The Sofja Kovalevskaja Award is one of the most valuable academic awards in Germany and allows the recipients to carry out research work under unique conditions: They may spend five years working on a research project at a university of their own choice in Germany and build up their own working groups – independently and largely untroubled by administrative constraints. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has singled out six international researchers between 30 and 37 years of age for one of Germany’s most valuable science awards: the winners will each be granted up to €1.65 million. Tübingen scientist Anna Marius (Levina) is one of this year’s awardees. She is based at the Berstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Tübingen and Werner Reinhardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN) at the University of Tübingen and works in the field of systemic neuroscience and computational neuroscience with the host professor Matthias Bethge.
Otto-Hahn-Medal of the Max Planck Society awarded to Mantas Gabrielaitis for his work on biological data streaming
Mantas Gabrielaitis receives the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck society for his doctoral dissertation at the Max Planck Institute of Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPIDS) and the Bernstein Center Göttingen.
New insights on vision, ERC Grant for Tim Gollisch
2 Million Euro for research on the processing capabilities of biological vision systems. European Research Council will fund the research of Professor Tim Gollisch for five years.
Philipp Berens receives FEI Technology Award 2017 of German Neuroscience Society
The prize, funded by FEI Company, is awarded by the German Neuroscience Society for outstanding work on the development of new technologies in brain research (April 2017).
Robert Gütig receives Prize for the best Science publication
This year's Newcomb Cleveland Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is awarded to Robert Gütig. He receives the award for his groundbreaking research on learning processes in neuronal networks (March 2017).
Open Call: Brains for Brains Young Researchers' Award
For the eighth time, the Bernstein Association for Computational Neuroscience is announcing the "Brains for Brains Young Researchers' Computational Neuroscience Award" (March 2017).
Call for Applications by the Ernst Schering Foundation: Young Investigator Fund for Innovative Research Ideas
The Ernst Schering Foundation offers start-up grants to fund promising research ideas by young scientists. Support is provided for projects in the fields of biochemical, neuroscience or immunological basic research with biomedical implications (March 2017).
Mathematics of vision - Interview with Fred Wolf
Fred Wolf, head of the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Göttingen and scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, has been awarded the Mathematical Neuroscience Prize. The prize is endowed with US $ 100,000 and is awarded by Israel Brain Technologies (IBT). In an interview, Wolf explains his research and, as a founding member of the Bernstein Center Göttingen, looks back to more than 10 years of Bernstein Network (March 2017).
Fred Wolf receives the Mathematical Neuroscience Prize 2017
Fred Wolf is awarded the world's most highly endowed prize for groundbreaking mathematical contributions to the understanding of the brain (March 2017).
Alexandra Stein new head of BCOS
Since February 1, 2017, Alexandra Stein heads the Bernstein Coordination Site (February 2017).