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21.03.2023

Laura Bernaez Timon and Maximilian Eggl received funding from the Joachim Herz foundation and are organizing a workshop on bio-inspired deep learning.

16.02.2023

Tatjana has been elected to represent Computational Neuroscience in the steering board of the German Neuroscience Association (NWG) 2023-2025 "Link".

02.02.2023

Tatjana has been appointed to the FENS Programme Committee "Link".

01.01.2023

Tatjana is a Programme Chair for Bernstein Conference 2023

01.11.2022

Carlos Wert Carvajal receives the Joachim Herz Fellowship. We congratulate him on this success!

26.06.2022

Tatjana accepted the invitation to serve as a guest section editor for an issue on Computational Neuroscience in Current Opinion in Neurobiology.

14.12.2021

Tatjana has accepted the invitation to co-chair the Program Board of the Bernstein Conference 2022

14.10.2021

Happy to share that Tatjana has been awarded the 2022 Boehringer Ingelheim FENS Research award "Link".

03.09.2020

Happy to share that Tatjana has been awarded the ERC Starting grant 2020 "Link".

01.06.2020

Happy to share that our PhD students Surbhit Wagle and Laura Bernaez Timon were awarded fellowships. Surbhit received a GRADE fellowship and Laura Bernaez was admitted into the Catalyst Europe program "Link".

30.10.2019

Young Academy of Europe selected Tatjana Tchumatchenko as a new fellow "Link".

30.10.2019

Our Biospektrum Article "mRNA ist der Schluessel fuer die Beschreibung der Proteindynamik in Neuronen" is published

30.10.2019

Tatjana Tchumatchenko is excited to share her career trajectory in the "Growing up in academia" panel discussion

17.09.2019

Tatjana Tchumatchenko accepted the invitation to serve as a Workshop Chair for the Bernstein Conference 2019

24.06.2019

Tatjana Tchumatchenko accepted the invitation to discuss the computational neuroscience from her point of view at the open colloquium Midsummer Brains in Freiburg

24.06.2019

Our LOEWE project which is part of the focus program Multiscale Modeling in the Life Sciences is approved for funding.

10.05.2019

Tatjana Tchumatchenko has accepted the invitation to be part of the selection committee for the Brains4Brains Young Researcher Award awarded by the Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience.

11.02.2019

Tatjana Tchumatchenko is re-elected to the steering committee of the Bernstein Network for Computational Neuroscience .

28.09.2018

Tatjana Tchumatchenko delivers a plenary lecture at the Bernstein Conference 2018

19.09.2018

Laura Bernaez Timon is awarded the Add-on Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Life Science 2018. We congratulate her on this success!

19.04.2018

Tatjana Tchumatchenko accepts the invitation to discuss her work in a LATEST THINKING video .

01.02.2018

Tatjana Tchumatchenko and her group are profiled in the latest Bernstein Feature of the Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience.

13.01.2018

Focus selects Tatjana Tchumatchenko as one of 25 young innovators who will shape Germany's future.

24.11.2017

Tatjana Tchumatchenko is elected to the Bernstein Steering Committee.

20.10.2017

Tatjana Tchumatchenko receives the MainCampus-educator fellowship 2017

05.10.2017

Andreas Nold receives the Joachim Herz Fellowship. We congratulate him on this success!

01.05.2017

Cicero Magazine published a portrait feature of Tatjana Tchumatchenko in its May issue. [Link]

23.02.2017

Nataliya Kraynyukova is awarded a Cosyne New Attendees Travel Grant. We congratulate her on this success!

24.09.2016

Tim Herfurth receives the Joachim Herz Fellowship. We congratulate him on this success!

01.07.2016

Ana Alupei receives the MainCampus and the DAAD fellowship to support her studies. We  congratulate her on this success!

01.06.2016

Laura Bernaez Timon receives an Erasmus scholarship and the scholarship of the Spanish Ministry of Education for her studies. We congratulate her on this success!

01.06.2016

Tim Herfurth receives a scholarship to attend the Okinawa Summer School. We congratulate him on this success!

20.09.2016

Tatjana Tchumatchenko and Susanne Schreiber organize a Bernstein Workshop [Workshop Link].

22.03.2016

Tatjana Tchumatchenko receives the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Prize 2016 of the German Research Foundation

[DFG Link, MPG Link, Frankfurter Neue Presse, Goethe Uni Link, Studienstiftung Link, Frankfurt Live Link].

01.01.2016

Sabrina Muenzberg receives the Joachim Herz Fellowship. We congratulate her on this success!

01.11.2015

It’s the rhythm! In a popular science article Tatjana Tchumatchenko explains the role of rhytms in the brain [Link in German].

01.10.2015

Tatjana Tchumatchenko joins the 2016 Program Committee of the Organization for Computational Neuroscience (CNS)  [Link].

01.09.2015

Tatjana Tchumatchenko joins the Program Committee of the Computational and Systems Neuroscience Conference 2016 (Cosyne) [Link].

15.06.2015

Our new article on stochastic synapses is featured on the MPG News.

15.05.2015

Tim Herfurth attends the Camp Summer School in Bangalore.

12.02.2015

Sara Konrad and Tatjana Tchumatchenko win the Mentorship Travel Grant for the Computational and Systems Neuroscience conference.

12.02.2015

Happy to report that our donation campagn for Ukrainian hospitals has exceeded its donation goal and the goods arrived.

19.11.2014

Our article on cortical oscillations is featured on MPG News and in Imperial College London News

05.07.2014

Tatjana Tchumatchenko discusses her recent boneconduction article in an interview on Radioeins Radio program "Die Profis"

01.07.2014

Tatjana Tchumatchenko is invited to serve on the Program Committee of the Computational and Systems Neuroscience Conference 2015.

10.07.2014

Amadeus Dettner wins a scholarship and attends the Okinawa Summer School.

08.06.2014

Our new article on bone conduction is featured in the MPG news , Spectrum , Medical Daily.

16.06.2014

Tatjana hosted the Alumni der Studienstiftung tour with over 60 registered participants and lead a guided tour of the  exhibition.  "100 years, minds in motion" celebrating the 100. anniversary of the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research.

01.05.2014

Within a week of publication, our article on gaussianity of spike counts was labeled "highly accessed" , ...That's exceptional for a math article!

2007-2011

Organization of a lecture series featuring female scientists
”Selected chapters of Biophysics written by outstanding female scientists” [Link]

06.02.2010

Interview in the local newspaper ”Göttinger Tageblatt“

15.02.2010

Interview on the local radio ”Stadtradio Göttingen”

18.01.2005

Interview in a national news magazine Spiegel Spezial, ”Generation Zuversicht” by M. Soehring [ Link (German) ]

Selected Paintings

Some of Tatjana's paintings have been inspired by neuroscience, others by a british street art artist and one of the paintings became a featured image in a journal (top right).  Most of the paintings are acrylic, one is pencil and two are in pastels.