Max Planck Group Leader
Contact
Phone: +49-151 64956855
Education/Degrees
| 2000 – 2006 | Diploma, University of Heidelberg, Faculty for Physics and Astronomy |
| 2003 – 2004 | Non-degree Bachelor of Science, University of Melbourne (study abroad program) |
| 2009 | Doctoral thesis, Prof. Sakmann, MPI of Neurobiology; University of Heidelberg |
Academic Career
| 2009 – 2012 | Research Asistant at the Institute of Physics (Ion Thrusters Group) Univ. of Giessen |
| 2012 – 2016 | Research visit: Neuroscience Section (Prof. Freeman), Univ. of California, Berkeley (DAAD grant) |
| 2012 – 2015 | Research Assistant at the Dept. of Psychiatry (sleep and EEG Lab) and the Institute of Physics (Nonlinear Dynamics Group), Univ. of Mainz |
| Since 2016 | Postdoc at the Dept. of Neurophysiology (MEG Lab), Univ. of Magdeburg |
Awards and Honors
| 2007 | Tamagawa-Riken Junior Research Travel Award |
| 2009 | ‘Summa cum laude’ for doctoral thesis work |
| 2014 | Career Development Award of the Giovanni Armenise – Harvard Foundation |
| 2015 | Starting Grant of the European Research Council |
Memberships an professional functions
| 2013 – | Faculty member, International Graduate School for Neuroscience, Tübingen |
| 2012 – | Member of the Bernstein Center of Computational Neuroscience, Tübingen |
| 2012 – | Member of the Werner-Reichardt-Center for Integrative Neuroscience, Tübingen |
| 2006 – | Member of the Society for Neuroscience (USA) |
Five most important publications
- Landau ID, Egger R, Dercksen VJ, Oberlaender M, Sompolinsky H*. (2016) The Impact of Structural Heterogeneity on Excitation-Inhibition Balance in Cortical Networks. Neuron, 92:1106-1121
- Egger R, Schmitt AC, Wallace DJ, Sakmann B*, Oberlaender M*, Kerr JN. (2015) Robustness of sensory-evoked excitation is increased by inhibitory inputs to distal apical tuft dendrites. PNAS,112(45):14072-7
- Narayanan RT, Egger R, Johnson AS, Mansvelder HD, Sakmann B, de Kock CP*, Oberlaender M*. (2015) Beyond Columnar Organization: Cell Type- and Target Layer-Specific Principles of Horizontal Axon Projection Patterns in Rat Vibrissal Cortex. Cereb. Cortex., 25(11):4450-68.
- Meyer HS, Egger R, Guest JM, Foerster R, Reissl S, Oberlaender M*. (2013) Cellular organization of cortical barrel columns is whisker-specific. PNAS, 110(47):19113-8.
- Oberlaender M, Ramirez A, Bruno RM*. (2012) Sensory experience restructures thalamocortical axons during adulthood. Neuron, 74(4):648-55.
- Oberlaender M*, de Kock CP, Bruno RM, Ramirez A, Meyer HS, Dercksen VJ, Helmstaedter M, Sakmann B. (2012) Cell type-specific three-dimensional structure of thalamocortical circuits in a column of rat vibrissal cortex. Cereb. Cortex, 22(10):2375-91.