Some of our partners in the Freiburg Rising Stars Academy offer Track 2: Open Application to a Host Institution. This Track targets candidates who have a more general interest in the University of Freiburg’s collaborative research efforts comprised in our partner institutions and may wish to work with a particular lab or researcher more closely, who is currently not listed among the designated Host-PIs. Please consult the following profiles for more information on what research areas these partners cover, who may apply through Track 2 and who to contact for questions.

Primary Research Areas:

Expectations for Prospective Rising Stars:

Publications:

https://www.livmats.uni-freiburg.de/en/publications

Applications may come from:

• PhD candidates
• PostDocs
• Assistant Professors / Junior Professors

Primary Research Areas:

• NeuroProbes: it deals with the interaction of neural tissues with engineering materials. It is driven by the question of how the long-term functionality of miniaturized technical interfaces in direct contact with neuronal tissues of the central nervous system can be ensured. At IMBIT we offer clean room facilities as well as a Soft-FIB.
• NeuroCore: it investigates the neurobiological basis for decoding and encoding information from / into the brain. For this purpose, different methods for read out and write in are used such as optophysioligical techniques enhanced by several types of microscopes.
• NeuroBotics: here the focus is on the neurotechnological interaction between humans and intelligent assistance systems in complex everyday situations. At IMBIT we work with several robotic devices and read out techniques for human brain signals.

Publications:

• Boehler, C., Carli, S., Fadiga, L., Stieglitz, T., Asplund, M.: Tutorial: Guidelines for standardized performance tests for electrodes intended for neural interfaces and bioelectronics. Nature Protocols, 15 (11), 3557-3578 (2020)
• Melbaum, S., Russo, E., Eriksson, D. Schneider, A., Durstewith, D, Brox, T., Diester, I.:  Conserved structures of neural activity in sensorimotor cortex of freely moving rats allow cross-subject decoding. Nat Commun 13, 7420 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35115-6
• Lukas A.W. Gemein, Robin T. Schirrmeister, Patryk Chrabąszcz, Daniel Wilson, Joschka Boedecker, Andreas Schulze-Bonhage, Frank Hutter, Tonio Ball,
  Machine-learning-based diagnostics of EEG pathology, NeuroImage, Volume 220, 2020, 117021, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117021.

Primary Research Area:

Universal Basic Income from different disciplinary perspectives including:

• Economic Policy and Constitutional Economic Theory
• Cognition, Action and Sustainability
• Caritas Science and Christian Social Work
• Social and Cultural Anthropology
• Foundations of Artificial Intelligence
• Education Science

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