Christoph von der Malsburg
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Christoph von der Malsburg | |
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 Christoph von der Malsburg | |
| Born | 8 May 1942 |
| Alma mater | University of Heidelberg |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Neuroscientist |
| Institutions | University of Southern California |
| Thesis | Bestimmung der π−-Masse (1970) |
| Doctoral students | Ladan Shams |
Christoph von der Malsburg (born 8 May 1942) is a German physicist and neuroscientist.
von der Malsburg obtained his PhD with a concentration in elementary particle physics at CERN and the University of Heidelberg in 1970.
Career
He joined the neurobiology department of the Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen. He remained there until 1987, when he became a professor of Computer Science, Neuroscience, Physics and Psychology at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.[1] In 1990, he founded the Institut für Neuroinformatik (Institute for Neural Computation) at Ruhr-University Bochum, together with Werner von Seelen. He commuted between the two institutions until 2007, when he joined the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies as a Senior Fellow.[2]
Von der Malsburg co-founded two companies and received a number of awards. He is a member of the scientific advisory board of the Human Brain Project[3] and one of the members of the founding board of Mindfire Foundation, of which he also heads the neuroscience board.[4]
