Prof. Dr. Christian Leibold

Focus of research

• Learning and memory formation in the mammalian hippocampus
• Neural basis of spatial hearing
• Statistical analysis and modelling of spatiotemporal neural activity patterns

CV

• Since 2024 Member of the Board of Directors Bernstein Center Freiburg
• Since 2024 Board member BrainLinks-BrainTools
• 2016–2021 Speaker Research Training Group 2175: Perception in Context and its Neural Basis.
• 2011–2013 Vicedean at the Faculty of Biology, LMU Munich
• 2009–2014 Speaker Bernstein Focus “Neural Basis of Learning” in Munich
• 2009–2011 Senator of the LMU Munich
• 2006–2021 Member of the Scientific Board Graduate School for Systemic Neuroscience (LMU)
• 2006–2021 W2 Professor of Computational Neuroscience LMU Munich
• 2002–2006 Postdocs at TU Munich, HU Berlin and Charité Berlin
• 1999–2002 PhD in Theoretical Physics, TU Munich
• 1993–1999 Diploma studies in Physics at TU Munich

Selected publications

• Crombie D, Spacek MA, Leibold C, Busse L (2024) Spiking activity in the visual thalamus is coupled to pupil dynamics across temporal scales. PLoS Biol. 22:e3002614.
• Yiu YH, Leibold C (2023) A theory of hippocampal theta correlations accounting for extrinsic and intrinsic sequences. Elife.12:RP86837
• A. Chenani, M. Sabariego, M.I. Schlesiger, J.K. Leutgeb, S. Leutgeb, C. Leibold (2019) Hippocampal CA1 replay becomes less prominent but more rigid without inputs from medial entorhinal cortex. Nat Commun 10: 1341
• M.M. Monsalve-Mercado, C. Leibold (2017) Hippocampal Spike-Timing Correlations Lead to Hexagonal Grid Fields. Phys Rev Lett 119: 038101.
• M.I. Schlesiger, C.C. Cannova, B.L. Boublil, J.B. Hales, E.A. Mankin, M.P. Brandon, J.K. Leutgeb, C. Leibold, S. Leutgeb (2015) The medial entorhinal cortex is necessary for temporal organization of hippocampal neuronal activity. Nat Neurosci 18: 1123- 1132.