DDr. Wolf SINGER Director emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main
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Studied Medicine in Munich and Paris | |
MD, Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich | |
PhD, Technical University in Munich | |
Director emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt | |
Founding Director, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) | |
Founding Director, Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society | |
His research is focused on the neuronal substrate of higher cognitive functions, and especially on the question how the distributed sub-processes in the brain are coordinated and bound together in order to give rise to coherent perception and action. |
Mitgliedschaften
Academia Europea | |
Pontifical Academy of Sciences | |
Member of the Lepoldina | |
Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences |
Publikationen
Buzsáki G., Logothetis N., Singer W.: Scaling brain size, keeping timing: Evolutionary preservation of brain rhythms. Neuron 80(3), 2013, 751-764 (+ Supplemental information 1-25) | |
Cortical dynamics revisited. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 17(12), 2013, 616-626 | |
Uhlhaas P.J., Singer W.: Neuronal dynamics and neuropsychiatric disorders: Toward a translational paradigm for dysfunctional large-scale networks. Neuron 75(6), 2012, 963-980 |
Auszeichnungen
Ernst Jung Prize for Science and Research, 1994 | |
Max Planck Prize for Public Science, 2001 | |
INNS Hebb Award, 2006 | |
Order of Merit (First Class) of the Federal Republic of Germany, 2011 |