Brief Biography
2006-now Assistant Professor at Physiology as well as Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, associated with the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago 2005-2006 Heisenberg fellow 2004-2005 Postdoc, at MIT in the group of Josh Tenenbaum, learning state of the art machine learning, hierarchical bayesian models 2002-2004 Postdoc, payed by the Wellcome Trust, addressing learning and optimality in the motor system with Prof. Wolpert 2001-2002 Postdoc, payed jointly by the Collegium Helveticum and the EU AMOUSE project 2001 PhD "Optimization and Learning: from microscopic cell properties to natural videos" 1999 Animal research permit and "Anesthesie und Chirurgie bei kleinen Versuchstieren", both at "Institut for Labortierkunde". 1997 Diploma-thesis "On the purpose of a backpropagating action potential." at ETH Zurich