Dr. Udo Ernst
Academic Education
1989-1994 Studies of physics, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University of Frankfurt
Sept. 1994 Diploma in physics (Dynamics of pulse-coupled oscillators with delayed interactions)
Feb. 1995 Heraeus Student Award
1994-1996 Graduate studies, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Frankfurt (Prof. Dr. T. Geisel)
Sept. 1996 Research term (Dr. A. Kreiter), Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt
1996-2000 Graduate studies, Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organisation, Göttingen (Prof. Dr. T. Geisel)
April 1999 Research term, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, in the Department of Biology (Dr. Misha Tsodyks)
Dec. 1999 Doctoral thesis in physics, (Structure and dynamics of lateral interactions in the primary visual cortex)
2000-2006 Postdoctoral fellowship, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Bremen (Prof. Dr. K.Pawelzik)
2006-2007 Postdoctoral fellowship, Département d’Études Cognitives, École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris, France (Prof. Dr. S. Denève)
2007-2010 Postdoctoral fellowship and coordinator of the Bernstein Group for Computational Neuroscience Bremen, University of Bremen
2010 Recipient of the Bernstein Award in Computational Neuroscience
2010-2011 Akademischer Rat in the Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Bremen
2012 Independent Group Leader (Bernstein Award Research Group) at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Bremen
Projects and Funding
1996-2001 Coauthor of several research project applications in SFBs 185 and 517 funded by the DFG, together with Prosf. Geisel and Pawelzik
2002-2004 SFB 517: Co-Project leader together with Prof. Dr. K. Pawelzik, research project B5 „Schnelle Gestaltwahrnehmung in einem Modell des visuellen Kortex“, ca. 230,000 € (together with Prof. Pawelzik)
2005 SFB 517: Co-Project leader together with Dr. S. Mandon, research project B5 „Schnelle Gestaltwahrnehmung in einem Modell des visuellen Kortex“, ca. 85,000 € (final funding period in SFB 517)
2007-2011 Coordinator of the Bernstein Group for Computational Neuroscience Bremen, and project leader ‘Feature Integration in Visual Cortex’ in this group, ca. 1,390,000 € (with Profs. Pawelzik, Fahle, Kreiter)
2010 Bernstein Award (ca. 1,250,000 €)
2013-2020 SPP1665 (two funding periods, ca. 340,000 € in total)
2016-2018 Focus-Group "I-See" (with Dr. D. Rotermund, Prof. Dr. W. Lang, Prof. Dr. A. Kreiter, Prof. Dr. K. Pawelzik, Prof. Dr. K. Schill, Dr. C. Zetzsche, Prof. Dr. M. Günther, ca. 15,000 €)
2019-2020 DAAD Cooperation University Bremen with University Tsubuka, Japan (ca. 20,000 €)
since 2019 SPP2205 (two funding periods, ca. 570,000 € in total)
since 2019 Iris und Hartmut-Jürgen Stiftung for colloqium MindTalks (ca. 4,000 €, with Profs. Masseck and Schultz)
since 2021 Neuron-ERANET EU-Funding for project "I-See" (ca. 900,000 €, coordination together with Dr. Rotermund, Bremen part of this international collaboration ca. 150,000 €
since 2022 Stiftung Bremer Wertpapierbörse for project "I-See" (ca. 18,000 €)
since 2022 Iris und Hartmut-Jürgen Stiftung for project "I-See" (ca. 6,000 €)
Reviewing activities
Science, Frontiers, Neural Computation, Network, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review E, Physica D, PLoS Computational Biology, Vision Research, Biological Cybernetics, European Physical Journal B, Journal of Physiology Paris, Journal of Computational Neuroscience, Animal Cognition, NIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems), CNS (Computational Neuroscience Conference) and others...