Recognition for cutting-edge research
Neuroscientist Professor Dr. Kristine Krug from Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg has once again been appointed Visiting Professor of Neuroscience at the renowned University of Oxford in the UK. The Medical Sciences Board at Oxford University confirmed the unpaid title for a further five years.
Image of Prof. Andrew King, Prof. Kristine Krug, and Prof. David Paterson (Photo: Hannah Simm / DPAG)
With this appointment, Oxford University is recognizing the outstanding scientific achievements of the internationally renowned Magdeburg researcher and her close collaboration with the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics. “I am delighted to receive this wonderful honor, which recognizes important joint projects with several research groups in Oxford and will continue to support them in the future,” explains Professor Krug.
A visiting professorship is an honorary position. It strengthens cooperation between universities and enables the appointees to hold courses, advise research groups, and support joint projects. The appointment is made after an internal selection process and is considered a special recognition of scientific excellence and cooperation.
Professor Kristine Krug has been a Heisenberg Professor of the German Research Foundation (DFG) since 2019 and holds the Chair of Sensory Physiology at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology.
The neurobiologist researches how the experience and perception of the three-dimensional world arise in the primate brain. The focus is on the questions of which signals beyond sensory processing determine our perception and thus our actions. The long-term goal of her research is to lay the foundations for so-called neuroprostheses – implants that could at least partially replace lost sensory functions at the interface between the brain and computers. She is particularly interested in understanding the perception of movement in three-dimensional space. This is essential if a neuroprosthesis is to enable spatial navigation and targeted interactions with others.
Raised in Germany, Prof. Dr. Kristine Krug completed her studies in physiology in 1994 and her doctorate in 1997 at the University of Oxford in the UK, after which she worked at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen. From 1998 to 2001, she returned to England and conducted research as a Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Scientist at the University of Oxford. She was then selected for a prestigious Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship, which enabled her to establish her own research group. From 2005 until she took up the Heisenberg Professorship at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, she worked for ten years as a Royal Society University Research Fellow and then as an Associate Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford.
