Early synthesis of scent perception

The German Research Foundation is funding the new Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 1461 "Neuroelectronics: Biologically Inspired Information Processing" at Kiel University with approximately 11.5 million euros.

DFG funds ‘Mathematics of Experiment’ with approximately nine million euros

An international team of scientists around Udo Ernst (University of Bremen) and Dirk Jancke (Ruhr University Bochum) is researching possibilities for implants that are intended to directly target areas of the brain responsible for processing visual information.

Foundation Pour l'Audition recognizes his pioneering work towards the optical cochlear implant for the treatment of hearing loss.

University of Göttingen coordinates new European research project on ultra-fast, fibre-optic technology.

Prof. Kerstin Krieglstein, Rector of the University of Freiburg, presented the first edition of the newly established Bernstein-CorTec Prize for Computational Neuroscience and Neurotechnology

Study explores functions of fruit fly’s nervous system in food seeking / results valuable for the development and control of artificial intelligence

In research, collecting data can be difficult, but fitting the data into a model that explains the observations is a challenge on another level. In neuroscience, many experiments measure the activity of neurons. However, to understand what exactly happens in a neuronal network, the data needs to be explained by a model. So, which model fits which data? A novel method developed by Pedro J. Gonçalves, Jan-Matthis Lueckmann, Michael Deistler, Jakob Macke and colleagues automates this process.

This year’s online version of the Bernstein Conference was a great success. It counted more participants (about 2800) than ever before in its history.