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Prof. Dr. Susanne Schreiber
Head of research group

phone: +49-(0)30-2093-98405
email: s.schreiber :AT: hu-berlin.de

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BIOGRAPHY

Aiming to apply mathematical approaches to biological questions, I studied biophysics at Humboldt University Berlin. Soon I discovered that neurons and their biophysics are highly interesting. My first hands-on encounter with neuroscience research was during my Diploma thesis in the lab of Simon Laughlin at the University of Cambridge, where I explored the optimal number of stochastic ion channels a cell should be equipped with for an energy-efficient relay of information. For the first half of my PhD, I joined the lab of Terry Sejnowski at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla as a doctoral Sloan-Swartz Fellow. Bridging the thesis between both labs, I completed the dissertation in Berlin in the lab of Andreas Herz. In 2008 I received the Bernstein Award for Computational Neuroscience which allowed me to found my own computational neurophysiology lab at Humboldt-University Berlin, where I was tenured in 2015. My lab investigates principles of neural computation combining a biophysical and an evolutionary perspective.


EDUCATION

2004-2008
Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin and Charité Berlin, Germany
2004
Ph.D.: Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany
2001-2002
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, USA
1999-2000
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom