Frontier Technologies – A Gateway to the Future in cooperation with the European Research Council
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Erwin-Schrödinger-Saal
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MD Ph.D. Henrik EHRSSON
Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
| Born in Sweden in 1972, Henrik Ehrsson is a cognitive neuroscientist interested in the problem of how we come to sense that we own our body. He thinks the key to solving this problem is to identify the multisensory mechanisms whereby the central nervous system distinguishes between sensory signals from one's body and from the environment. By clarifying how the normal brain produces a sense of ownership of one s body, we can learn to project ownership onto artificial bodies and simulated virtual ones; and even make two people have the experience of swapping bodies with one another. This could have important applications in the fields of virtual reality and neuro-prosthetics. Dr. Ehrsson is currently leading the Brain, Body and Self Laboratory at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. In 2010 he was promoted to associate professor at this institution, and to date he has authored 40 original articles and book chapters. His research findings have been highly cited by other academics (1800 citations) and also attracted widespread interest in the general press including reports by New York Times, Der Spiegel, The Economist, National Geographic, BBC, CNN and ABC News. Dr. Ehrsson received his postdoctoral training at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging (2002-2006), University College London, UK. His training to become a medical doctor took place at the Karolinska Institutet (1992-2002) and he obtained his Ph.D. in neuroscience from the same institution in 2001. |
Mag. Dr. Monika RITSCH-MARTE
Professor and Head, Division of Biomedical Physics, Department of Physiology and Medical Physics, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck
| 1984 | Studium der Theoretischen Physik (Mag. rer. nat.), Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck |
| 1988 | Doktorat in Theoretischer Quantenoptik, University of Waikato, Neuseeland |
| 1993-1995 | Charlotte-Bühler-Habilitations-Stipendium des FWF - Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung |
| 1996 | Habilitation, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck |
| 1997-1998 | APART-Stipendiatin der ÖAW - Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Universität Mailand |
| seit 1998 | Ordinaria für Medizinische Physik, Medizinische Universität Innsbruck |
Ph.D. Noam SOBEL
Principal Investigator, Olfaction Research Group, Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot
| 1999 | PhD Neuroscience, Stanford University |
| 2000 | Postdoctoral fellow, Caltech biology |
| 2001-2005 | Assistant Professor, Neuroscience UC Berkeley |
| 2005-2007 | Associate Professor, Neuroscience UC Berkeley |
| 2007-2010 | Associate Professor, Neurobiology Weizmann Institute |
| since 2010 | Professor, Neurobiology Weizmann Institute |
Helga NOWOTNY
Member, Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development; Chair, ERA Council Forum Austria, Vienna
| 1959 | Doctorate in Jurisprudence, University of Vienna |
| 1969 | Ph.D. in Sociology, Columbia University, New York |
| 1996-2002 | Professor of Philosophy and Science and Technology Studies, ETH Zurich |
| Teaching and Research Positions at the Institute for Advanced Study, Vienna; King's College, Cambridge; University of Bielefeld; Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin; Ecole des Hautes Etudes et Sciences Sociales, Paris; Science Center for Social Sciences, Berlin; Collegium Budapest | |
| 1998-2004 | Director, "Collegium Helveticum", ETH Zurich |
| 2001-2006 | Chair, EURAB - European Research Advisory Board of the European Commission |
| 2002-2004 | Director, Branco Weiss Fellowship Programme "Society in Science" |
| 2005-2011 | Chair, Scientific Advisory Board of the University of Vienna |
| 2007-2010 | Vice-President ERC - European Research Council |
| 2010-2013 | President, ERC - European Research Council |
| Professor em., Science and Technology Studies, ETH Zurich |
