EDUCATION
1990 - 1993	Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France. Ph.D. (Doctorat) in Applied Physics. Thesis Title: Formal Neural Networks and Olfaction: Modeling Pheromone Processing in Insects, Suma (Félicitations du Jury).
1982 - 1989	Technical University, Graz, Austria. Masters (Diplom Ingenieur) in Electrical Engineering. Thesis Title: Get Rhythm: A Musical Application for Neural Networks.
1982 - 1987	Academy for Music, Graz, Austria. Certificat  in Classical Clarinet and Conducting.
AWARDS and FELLOWSHIPS
2001-2003	Sloan Fellow
2001-2003	International Human Frontier Science Foundation Research grant (in collaboration with G. Galizia and M. Giurfa)
2001-2003	Small grant, NIDCD
1997	CO-PI, National Science Foundation Research Grant.
1994-1997	International Human Frontier Science Program Long Term Research Fellowship.
1995	Neural Systems and Behavior, Woodshole, MA.
1992	Research grant  from the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg (Ministère de la Recherche).
1990	European Community ESPRIT Research Fellowship.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Present 2000-2006 1998-2000	Associate Professor, Dept. of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University Senior Research associate, Dept. of Psychology, Boston University.  Lecturer, Dept. of Psychology, Harvard University.
1997 - 1998	Research Associate, Dept. of Psychology, Harvard University.
1994 - 1997	Post-doctoral research fellow with Michael E. Hasselmo, Dept. of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. In vivo electrophysiology and theoretical modeling of olfactory processing and memory.
1993 - 1994	Assistant Professor (Maitre de Conférence), Electronics Laboratory, ESPCI, Paris, France and Laboratoire de Neurobiologie Comparée des Invertébrés, INRA, Bures sur Yvette, France. Theoretical modeling of olfactory proccessing and classical conditioning in the honeybee.
1990 - 1993	Graduate student and teaching fellow, Electronics Laboratory, ESPCI, Paris, France.Theoretical modeling and analysis of pheromone processing and mate location in moths.
1989 - 1990	Research fellow, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Technical University (TU) Graz , Austria. Neural network applications for medical imaging and evoked potentials in human subjects.
1988 - 1989	Undergraduate research fellow, Expert Systems Group, Gesellschaft fuer Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung (GMD), St. Augustin, Germany.Research on formal neural networks and musical rhythm detection
TEACHING EXPERIENCE  Topics in Systems and Computational Neuroscience (BioNB420-02), Cornell University, 2002 Introduction to Neural Networks and Computational Neuroscience, NBB, Cornell University, 2000 Neural Networks, Dept. of Psychology, Harvard University, 1988  Computational Neuroscience, Supervision of master thesis projects, ESPCI, 1990-1994  Computational Neuroscience, Course, Univ. Paris 6, 1993-1994  Electronics, Course and Laboratory, ESPCI, 1990-1994  Automatic Control, Course and Laboratory, ESPCI, 1990-1994  Neural Networks, Course and Laboratory, Technical Univ. Graz, 1989-1990  Optical communication, Laboratory, Technical Univ. 1989-1990.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Organizer, Workshop on Olfactory Coding at the Neural Information Processing Meeting (NIPS), 1998  Area Chair, Biological Neural Networks, IEEE-ICNN Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 1997  Organizer, Workshop on Neuromodulation at the Neural Information Processing Meeting (NIPS), 1996  Organizing Committee, Annual Meeting of Computational Neuroscience (CNS), 1996-1997.  Program Committee member, Annual Meeting of Computational Neuroscience (CNS), 1995-1997.  Co-organizer, First Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Music, St. Augustin, Germany, 1988.  Organizing Committee, International Computer Music Conference, Cologne, Germany, 1988.  Reviewer:  Journal of Neuroscience, European Journal of Neuroscience, Behavioral Neuroscience, Physiology and Behavior, Neural Computation, Neuroreport, Chemical Senses, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, MIT Press, Annual meeting of Computational Neuroscience (CNS), Neural Information Processing (NIPS), IEEE/ICNN.
LANGUAGES
Completely fluent in, English, French, German, and Luxemburgish. Back to homepage Publication list