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Curriculum Vitae

Education

University:

  • 1976 1982 University of Würzburg, “Diplom in Psychologie” (“with distinction”).
    Thesis: “On the relationship between saccade size and fixation duration in Reading” (supervised by Prof. Dr. D. Heller).
  • 1982-1986 University of Durham, UK, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD).
    Dissertation: “The effect of selective spatial attention on peripheral discrimination thresholds” (supervised by Prof. Dr. J. M. Findlay).

Scholarships:

  • 1977-1982 German National Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes).
  • 1982-1983 UK fellowship of the German National Scholarship Foundation.
  • 1988-1990 UK fellowship of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungs-Gemeinschaft, DFG).

Professional Career

  • 1984-1987 Research Fellow, Prof. Dr. Patrick M.A. Rabbitt, Age and Cognitive Performance Research Centre, University of Manchester, UK. [MRC project: “Spatial cueing of selective visual attention”.]
  • 1988-1989 DFG-Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Birkbeck College (University of London)
    Honorary Research Fellow. [DFG project: “Automatic and controlled mechanisms of visuo-spatial orienting”.]
  • 1989-1990 Research Fellow, Prof. Dr. Glyn W. Humphreys, Department of Psychology, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. [SERC Image Interpretation Initiative project: “Parallel combined feature coding”.]
  • 1990-1991 Senior Lecturer in Psychology, London Metropolitan University, UK.
  • 1992-1994 Lecturer in Psychology, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.
  • 1995-1996 Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.
  • 1996-1997 Reader in Cognitive Psychology, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.
  • 1997-2000 Professur für Allgemeine Psychologie (C4), University of Leipzig, Germany.
  • 2000- Professur für Allgemeine und Experimentelle Psychologie (C4), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich, Germany.
  • 1999-2003 Peer-elected “DFG Fachgutachter” (DFG Special Reviewer) for Experimental and Physiological Psychology.
  • 2002-2008 Speaker, DFG Research Unit (Forschergruppe) “Temporale Dynamik der visuellen Objekt- und Ereignisverarbeitung“
  • 2004– Program Director M.Sc. in Neuro-cognitive Psychology” (from 2004–2014 funded by the Elite Network Bavaria, ENB; from 2014– associated with the ENB), LMU Munich, Germany (one of the DAAD “Top 10 Masters Programs made in Germany”).
  • 2006–2008 Head of Department, Department of Psychology, LMU Munich, Germany.
  • 2006–2014 Excellence Cluster “Cognition for Technical Systems (CoTeSys)”, Co-ordinator of Research Area A: “Neurocognitive Foundations”, and Member of Executive Board
  • 2006– Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences (GSN-LMU; funded within the Excellence framework), Principal Investigator, Member of Scientific Board, and Head of Teaching Section “Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience”.
  • 2006– “Munich Center for Neuroscience – Brain and Mind”, MCN-LMU (funded within the LMUinnovativ initiative), Founding Member, peer-elected Member/Deputy Speaker of Executive Board.
  • 2007–2012 LMUexcellent Research Professorship (Forschungsprofessur)
  • 2015–2021 Speaker, DFG Research Unit (Forschergruppe) “Active Perception”.
  • 2007– Member of the CASLMU Center for Advanced Studies.
  • 2010– Wilhelm Wundt Prize of the Wilhelm Wundt Society, awarded“for excellent achievements in fundamental psychological research”.
  • 2014 Wilhelm Wundt Medal of the German Psychology Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie, DGPs)
  • 2017– Member of the Wilhelm Wundt Society (Wilhelm Wundt Gesellschaft e.V.)

Research Projects

Research grants:

2018

  • DFG Research Group grant (central project within FOR 2293 “Active Perception”): “Teilprojekt Z: Koordinationsfonds” (01/2019-12/2021; € 123,405).
  • DFG Research Group grant (part-project within FOR 2293 “Active Perception”, with Z. Shi): “Modelling inter-trial dynamics: developing a hierarchical predictive-coding framework of response decisions in a variety of search tasks” (04/2019-03/2022; € 313,000)
  • DFG Research Group grant (part-project within FOR 2293 “Active Perception”, with T. Töllner & Z. Shi): “Adaptive attentional orienting to multisensory events (01/2019-12/2021; € 204,000)
  • DFG Sino-German Project (with Z. Shi; cooperation with X. Zhou & L. Chen, University of Peking, China): “Value-driven crossmodal attention” (04/2019-03/2022; € 337,174 from DFG)

2017

  • LMU-excellence Investment Fund Project (with H. R. Liesefeld): “Visual Working Memory” (2017-2018; € 150,000)
  • DFG Research Training Group grant (part-project within RTG 2175 “Perception in Context and its Neural Basis”, with T. Töllner): “Context-based prediction in perception” (09/2017-08/2020; €199,000)

2016

  • DFG Large-Scale Equipment grant (with P. Falkai [LMU Psychiatry] & B. Grothe [MCN_LMU]) for acquiring a 3-Tesla Magnetic Resonance Tomography scanner (12/2016; € 2,450,000 €)
  • DFG Research Group Grant (part-project within FOR 2293 “Active Perception”; Speaker: H. J. Müller): “Koordinationsfonds” (04/2016-03/2019; € 167,400)
  • DFG Research Group grant (part-project within FOR 2293 “Active Perception”, with Z. Shi): “Modellierung prädiktiver Gewichtungssysteme in der visuellen Suche” (06/2016-05/2019; € 284,620)
  • DFG Research Group grant (part-project within FOR 2293 “Active Perception”, with T. Töllner, Z. Shi): “Adaptive Orientierung der Aufmerksamkeit zu multisensorischen Ereignissen” (05/2016-04/2019; € 187,720)

2014

  • DFG standard project grant (part-project within the ORA framework, with M Eimer [London, UK], C. Olivers [Amsterdam, NL], & S. Pollmann [Magdeburg, D]): “Die Spur der Schablone: Untersuchungen zur Repräsentation perzeptueller Relevanz” (1/2014-12/2016; € 160,000)
  • LMUexcellent Investment Fund grant: “Adaptive perception” (4/2014-11/2015; € 100,000)


2013

  • EU Marie Curie Training Network Initiative grant (part-project, with G. W. Humphreys [Oxford, UK], G. Deco [Barcelona, S.], C. Bundesen [Copenhagen, DK], J. Braun [Magdeburg, D], & I. Robertson [Dublin, IR]): “INDIREA – Individualised Diagnostics and Rehabilitation for Attentional Disorders” (6/2013-5/2015; € 499,000)
  • DFG standard project grant (mit T. Geyer): “Dynamik des perzeptuellen Gedächtnisses in der visuellen Suche” (5/2013-10/2015; € 244.500)

2012

  • Excellence Cluster 142 “Cognition for Technical Systems (CoTeSys)” – Project #612: “Perceptual and cognitive mechanisms underlying joint social context” (1/2012-10/2014; € 97,700)
  • DFG standard project grant (with T. Schubert & P. Frensch [HU Berlin]): Übungsabhängige Optimierung von Aufgabenkoordination: Gedächtnishypothese (2012-2015; € 277,500)
  • International Research Symposium: Visual Search and Selective Attention III (VSSA III), Holzhausen, D, July 20-23, 2012. DFG International-Conference support scheme (€ 13,600).

2011

  • LMUexcellent Research Professorship – Project “Neuro-cognitive Systems Control: Dynamic Weighting in Perception and Action” (continued) (11/2011-10/2012; € 70,000)
  • Excellence Cluster 142 “Cognition for Technical Systems (CoTeSys)” – Project #607b: “Legibility metrics for Human-Aware-Navigation” (11/2011-10/2012; € 15,750)
  • DFG standard project grant (with M. Conci): “Hierarchische Struktur und kontextbasierte Aufmerksamkeits-lenkung” (8/2011-7/2013; € 101,600)
  • DFG standard project grant (with M. Zehetleitner): “Salienz und Entscheidungsverhalten im Störreiz-paradigma” (10/2011-9/2014; € 180,000)

2010

  • Excellence Cluster 142 “Cognition for Technical Systems (CoTeSys)” – Project #435 (with M. Zehetleitner): “Mental state prediction for perception, task control, and action in sequential activities” (01/2011-12/2012; € 192,600).
  • Excellence Cluster 142 “Cognition for Technical Systems (CoTeSys)” – Project #436 (with K. Kuehnlenz [TUM] & J. Zwickel): “SocGaze: Improving human-robot interaction by modeling human gaze control in social situations” (01/2011-12/2012; € 187,600).
  • DFG standard project grant (with Z. Shi): “Crossmodal temporal integration in the perception of apparent motion” (08/2011-03/2014; € 197,000).

2009

  • DFG standard project grant(with T. Schubert & P. Frensch [HU Berlin]): “Optimierung von Aufgaben-koordination in Doppelaufgaben: Allgemeinpsychologische und entwicklungspsychologische Untersuchungen” (04/2009-03/2011; € 160.000).
  • DFG standard project grant (with T. Geyer): “Dimensionale Verarbeitungsprozesse in visueller Suche“ (12/2009-02/2014, € 113.300).

2008

  • International Research Symposium: Visual Search and Selective Attention (VSSA II), Murten, CH, July 16-19, 2008. DFG International-Conference support scheme (€ 12.000).
  • Excellence Cluster 142 “Cognition for Technical Systems (CoTeSys)” – Project #435 (with F. Wallhoff [TUM] & M. Zehetleitner): “Mental state prediction for perception, task control, and action in sequential activities” (01/2009-12/2010; € 192,600).
  • Excellence Cluster 142 “Cognition for Technical Systems (CoTeSys)” – Project #436 (with K. Kuehnlenz [TUM] & J. Zwickel): “SocGaze: Improving human-robot interaction by modeling human gaze control in social situations” (01/2009-12/2010; € 187,600).
  • Excellence Cluster 142 “Cognition for Technical Systems (CoTeSys)” – Project #405b (with M. Zäh [TUM], G. Rigoll [TUM], et al.): “ACIPE: Adaptive cognitive interaction in production environments” (01/2009-12/2010; € 67,200).

2007

  • SFB 453 “Wirklichkeitsnahe Telepräsenz und Teleaktion” – Project #M9 (with S. Hirche [TUM] & Z. Shi): „Temporale multimodale Informationsverarbeitung im haptisch-visuell-auditorischen Arbeitsraum” (01/2008-12/2010, € 458,700).
  • LMUexcellent Research Professorship – Project “Neuro-cognitive Systems Control: Dynamic Weighting in Perception and Action” (10/2007-09/2011, € 743,475).

2006

  • Excellence Cluster „Cognition for Technical Systems“ – Project #125 (with M. Buss [TUM] & W. X. Schneider): „Foveated Visual Attention for Cognitive Mobile Vehicles and Cognitive Humanoid Robots“ (11/2006-10/2008).
  • Excellence Cluster „Cognition for Technical Systems“ – Project #159 (with A. Schubö, Bubb [TUM], Rigoll [TUM] & Zäh[TUM]): „ACIPE – Adaptive Cognitive Interaction in Production Environments“ (11/2006-10/2008).
  • Excellence Cluster „Cognition for Technical Systems“ – Project #165 (with A. Schubö, T. Stoffer, M. Buss [TUM] & L. van Hemmen [TUM]): „Dynamic event monitoring in multiple sensory modalities and response production in multiple effector systems“ (11/2006-10/2008).

2005

  • DFG Research Group FOR 480 (Director: H. J. Müller): „Temporale Dynamik der visuellen Objekt- und Ereignisverarbeitung“ (2nd funding period, 8 funded projects; disciplines involved: Allgemeine und experimentelle Psychologie, Neurologie).
  • DFG Research Group „Temporal Dynamics“ – Project (with M. Usher [Birkbeck College, University of London, UK]): „Aufmerksamkeit und temporale Bindung“ (01/2006-12/2008).
  • DFG-Forschergruppe „Temporal Dynamics“ – Project (with M. Elliott): „Perzeptive und Prozess-Synchro-nizität: Eine Untersuchung der dynamischen Schnittstelle zwischen bewusster und unbewusster visueller Verarbeitung“ (01/2006-12/2008).
  • DFG-Forschergruppe „Temporal Dynamics“ – Project (with J. Krummenacher): „Temporale Charakteristika der Integration visueller Merkmale: Verarbeitungsarchitektur und Kapazitätslimitation in der visuellen Informationsverarbeitung“ (01/2006-12/2008).

2004

  • DFG Project (with K. Gramann & M. Eimer [Birkbeck College, University of London, UK]): „Elektrokortikale Korrelate bei der visuellen Suche nach pop-out Zielreizen“ (2004-2006).

2003

  • DFG Project (with M. A. Elliott): „Die Dynamik von Form- und Farbrepräsentationen: Kombinierte Verhaltens- und elektrophysiologische Untersuchungen“ (07/2003-06/2005).
  • DFG Project (with W. X. Schneider): „Aufmerksamkeitsdiagnostik auf der Basis der Theorie der visuellen Aufmerksamkeit (TVA): Untersuchungen an Normalpersonen und Patienten“ (2004-2007).

2002

  • DFG Research Group FOR 480 (Director: H. J. Müller): „Temporale Dynamik der visuellen Objekt- und Ereignisverarbeitung“ (1st funding period, 7 funded projects; disciplines involved: Allgemeine und experimentelle Psychologie, Neuropsychologie, Neurologie, Neuroinformatik).
  • DFG Research Group „Temporale Dynamik“ – Project: „Attentionale Modulation des Synchronizitätsprimings“ (01/2003-12/2005).
  • DFG Research Group „Temporale Dynamik“ – Project (with A. von Mühlenen): „Inhibitorische (Kurzzeit-) Gedächtnisprozesse bei der Steuerung der visuelle Suche“ (01/2003-12/2005).

2001

  • DFG Project (with J. Krummenacher, RWTH Aachen): „‚Dimension Switching’: Exogene und endogene Kontrollprozesse beim Umschalten zwischen visuellen Merkmalsdimensionen“ (04/2001-03/2003).
  • DFG Research Group „Working Memory“ – Project (with S. Pollmann & D.Y. von Cramon [MPI für neuropsychologische Forschung Leipzig]): „Attentionale Modulation von dimensionsspezifischen Inputprozessen in das visuelle Arbeitsgedächtnis – eine kombinierte fMRI- und Patientenstudie (Fortsetzung)“ (04/2001-03/2003).
  • DFG Research Group „Working Memory“ – Project: „Priming von Figur-Bildungsprozessen durch synchrone 40 Hz-Oszillation figuraler Elemente: Weiterführende psychophysische Untersuchung einer frühen Komponente des visuellen Arbeitsgedächtnisses (Fortsetzung)“ (04/2001-03/2003).

2000

  • DFG Project: „Ist Größenkonstanz ein Ergebnis präattentiver visueller Verarbeitung? Retinale versus scheinbare Größe in ‚szenischen‘ Suchaufgaben (Fortsetzung)“ (11/2000-10/2002).

1999

  • DFG Project (with H.-G. Geißler, Universität Leipzig). „Invariante Zeitstrukturen in Bewegungswahrnehmung, Figurerkennung und Gedächtnissuche“ (05/1999-04/2002).
  • DFG Project (with D. Heller, RWTH Aachen): „Funktionale Architektur und Dynamik der Vermittlungs-prozesse zwischen präattentiver und attentiver visueller Verarbeitung“ (04/1999-03/2001).

1998

  • DFG Project: „Ist Größenkonstanz ein Ergebnis präattentiver visueller Verarbeitung? Retinale versus scheinbare Größe in ‚szenischen’ Suchaufgaben“ (05/1998-04/2000).
  • DFG Research Group „Working Memory“ – Project (with A. Mecklinger [MPI für neuropsychologische Forschung Leipzig]): „Priming von Figur-Bildungsprozessen durch synchrone 40 Hz-Oszillationen figuraler Elemente: Psychophysische und neurophysiologische Evidenz für eine frühe Komponente des visuellen Arbeitsgedächtnisses“ (04/1998-03/2001).
  • DFG Research Group „Working Memory“ – Project (with S. Pollmann & D.Y. von Cramon [MPI für neuropsychologische Forschung Leipzig]): „Attentionale Modulation von dimensionsspezifischen Inputprozessen in das visuelle Arbeitsgedächtnis: Eine kombinierte fMRI und Patientenstudie“ (04/1998-03/2001).

1996

  • DFG Project (with D. Heller, RWTH Aachen): „Funktionale Architektur und Dynamik der Vermittlungsprozesse zwischen präattentiver und attentiver visueller Verarbeitung“ (07/1996-06/1998).

1995

  • ESRC Project (with N. Donnelly): „Human visual object representation“ (£119.042, 04/1995-03/1998)
  • Birkbeck College (University of London)-Forschungsprojekt: „Perceptual, attentional and motor components of spatial neglect“ (£5.000 Beitrag zur Anschaffung eines Augenbewegungsregistriersystems, 07/1995).

1994

  • University of London Central Research Fund (Goodall Trust Fund)-Projekt: „Visuospatial attention and goal-directed hand movements“ (£3.802 zur Anschaffung eines Polhemus 3 Space Fastrak-Systems, 04/1994).

1993

  • MRC Joint Council Image Interpretation Project (with G.W. Humphreys & R. Beale): „Temporal image segmentation“ (£89.616, 04/1993-03/1996).
  • Royal Society Project: „The integration of motion information in visual object recognition“ (£4.876 for Silicon Graphics Stereoview System, 03/93).

1992

  • SERC Project: „Mechanisms of visual attention“. (£83.437, 10/1992-9/1995).
  • University of London Central Research Fund Project: „Visual attention and motor responses“ (£4.750, 04/1992).
  • Birkbeck College (University of London) Project: „The preceptual integration of motion and form information“ (£14.080 for Silicon Graphics System, 07/1992).

1988

  • DFG Project (UK Fellowship, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK): “Automatische und kontrollierte Mechanismen der visuell-räumlichen Orientierung” (1988-1989).

International Collaborations

Amongst others with Prof. Prof. Ulrich Ansorge (University of Vienna, A), Prof. Claus Bundesen (Center for Visual Cognition, University of Copenhagen, DK); Dr. John Duncan (MRC-Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK); Prof. Martin Eimer (University of London, UK); Prof. Glyn W. Humphreys (Behavioural Brain Sciences Centre, University of Birmingham, UK); Prof. Christian N. L. Olivers (Free University of Amsterdam, NL); Prof. Marius Usher (University of Tel Aviv, Israel); Prof. Jeremy Wolfe (Center for Ophthalmic Research, Boston, USA).

Reviewing

Scientific Journals:
Amongst others for: Attention and Performance, Australian Journal of Psychology, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Brain Connectivity, Brain Research, British Journal of Psychology, Canadian Journal of Psychology, Cerebral Cortex, Cognition, Cognitive Neuropsychology, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Development, Current Biology, European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, Experimental Brain Research, Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, Frontiers in Neuroscience, Frontiers in Psychology, Image and Vision Computing, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Journal of General Psychology, Journal of Vision, Memory & Cognition, Neural Networks, Neuropsychologie, Neuroreport, Perception, (Attention,) Perception & Psychophysics, Psychological Bulletin & Review, Psychological Research, Psychological Science, Scientific Reports, The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Visual Cognition, Vision, etc.
Research-funding Institutions:
Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council, UK (BBSRC), Economic and Social Research Council, UK (ESRC), Medical Research Council, UK (MRC), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, German-Israel Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF), The Israel Science Foundation, Israel (ISF), NOW (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research), etc.
Elected DFG Special Reviewer for Experimental and Physiological Psychology (1999-2003).


Citation Indices and List of Publications

Citation indices (source: Google Scholar, 25.03.2019)
H-index: 54
i10-index (no. of publications with ≥10 citations): 207
Citations (total): 12060

Publications see here.