My vision is a holistic understanding of how decisions are reached and how they turn into actions. This has far reaching implications for neuroprosthetics, a scientific area which helps patients with specific loss of functions with electronic supplements.
The science of my lab spans the understanding of the basic mechanisms of how we reach decisions and how movements are generated. We apply cutting edge technologies as electrophysiology, optogenetics, fiber-based Calcium imaging and 2-photon imaging with holographic stimulation combined with behavior. To understand how neuronal activities and behavior are linked holistically, we investigate what kind of model of the world is represented in the brain. For that we tightly interact with our colleagues from the Computer science department.

I’m convinced that a couple of prerequisites must be met in order to achieve our goals.

• To stimulate creative approaches to complex neuroscientific problems, we must promote collaborations between neuroscientists, engineers, computer scientists and ethicists. The IMBIT build the ideal environment for such an interdisciplinary approach.
• To enable our research, we must develop and apply the next generation of tools and instrumentation.
• To ensure sustained creativity, we must recruit and train the next generation of scientists with interdisciplinary backgrounds.
• To maximize community support and engagement, we must develop a communications and outreach effort that informs and educates the public about our scientific progress and aspirations. For that, tightly interact with Nexus experiments, a platform for community based outreach activities.