Prof. em. Dr. Ad Aertsen
Neurobiology and Biophysics
Bernstein Center Freiburg & Faculty of Biology
University of Freiburg
Hansastraße 9a
79104 Freiburg
Germany
Tel.: +49 761 203 9550
ad.aertsen@biologie.uni-freiburg.de
Research Topics
- Recording, analysis and modeling of neuronal activity in cortical networks
- Neural assembly coding
- Cortical network dynamics
- Brain theory
- Computational Neuroscience
- Brain-machine interfacing, Neurotechnology
Academic Background
- 1966 - 1973: Studies in Physics and Applied Mathematics, University Utrecht (NL)
- 1973: Diploma (comp.MSc) in Physics
- 1973 - 1981: PhD studies, Supervisor: Dr. Peter Johannesma, Dept. Medical Physics & Biophysics, University Nijmegen (NL)
- 1981: Dr (comp. PhD) in Physics
Professional Background
- 1981 - 1982: Postdoc Biophysics, with Prof. Jos Eggermont, Dept Med Physics & Biophysics, University Nijmegen (NL)
- 1983 - 1984: Postdoc Physiology, with Prof. George Gerstein, Dept. Physiology, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
- 1984 - 1990: 1984 - 1990: Research Associate, with Prof. Valentino Braitenberg, MPI Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen
- 1990 - 1994: Workgroup leader, with Prof. Werner von Seelen, Institute for Neuroinformatics, Ruhr-University Bochum
- 1994 - 1996: Associate Professor, Dept. Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
- 1996 - 2017: Professor in Neurobiology and Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg
- 2017 – present: Emeritus Professor, Neurobiology and Biophysics, University of Freiburg
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: Member of Editorial Board of Biological Cybernetics
- 1999 - present: Member of Scientific Board Neurex - Tri-National Network of Neurosciences Upper Rhine Valley
- 2000 - 2006: Vice-Dean, Faculty of Biology
- 2001 - 2020: Member of Board of Directors, Center for Neuroscience (Zentrum für Neurowissenschaften ZfN), University Freiburg
- 2003 - 2004: Elected Member, Board of Directors, Computational Neuroscience Organization
- 2003 - present: Associate Editor Neural Computation
- 2003 - 2006: Course Director, IBRO/FENS/EU Advanced Course Computational Neuroscience, Obidos (Portugal), Arcachon (France)
- 2004 - 2013: Coordinator and Founding Director, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Freiburg
- 2007 - 2015: Member of Executive Board, Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine (SGBM)
- 2007 - 2010: Elected Member of the Executive Board and Spokesman Section Computational Neuroscience, German Neuroscience Society (NWG)
- 2007 - 2010: Associate Editor, PLoS Computational Biology
- 2007 - 2016: 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 - 2012: Vice-Dean (Prodekan), Faculty of Biology
- 2011 - 2017: Member of the Advisory Board, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
- 2012 - 2014: Member of the Executive Board and Founding Member of the Excellence Cluster BrainLinks-BrainTools
- 2012 - 2014: Dean (Dekan), Faculty of Biology
- 2014 - 2016: Vice-Dean (Prodekan), Faculty of Biology
- 2021 - present: Member of the Advisory Board, Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Cultures of Research” (Kulturen des Forschens)”, RWTH Aachen
Publications