Professional Experience

2006- Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in Karl Gegenfurtner's lab at the University of Giessen

advisor: Karl Gegenfurtner
topic: experimental psychology: visuo-motor coordination

2003-05 Senior Research Fellow in Michael Wenger's lab at Penn-State

advisor: M. Wenger
topic: experimental psychology: visual perceptual learning

2002-03 Postdoctoral Researcher in Miguel Eckstein's lab at UCSB

advisor: M. Eckstein
topic: experimental psychology: visual perceptual learning

2000-02 Postdoctoral Scholar in Biology in the Klab at Caltech

advisor: C. Koch
topic: neural coding, scene and object recognition

Education

1996-99 PhD thesis at the Inst. of Neuroinformatics, ETH Zuerich

advisors: R. Douglas, K. Martin

thesis: construction of neurons in analog VLSI

1997 Neuromorphic Workshop 97

1997 1. European Workshop on Neuromorphic Systems 97

1991-96 Zoology studies at the University of Zurich

Diploma thesis (M.Sc.) in sleep research

advisors: A. Borbély, R. Wehner

thesis: statistical analysis of activity data of ibex ibex