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.