Dr. Hermann Cuntz –born in 1974 in Bielefeld– studied biology in Tübingen with an external PhD at the University of California at Berkeley and at the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology. After two post-doc stays at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at University College London, he moved to Frankfurt am Main. In 2013, he received the Bernstein Award and established his group at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) and the Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society. He studies principles of optimality in neuronal circuits with a special focus on single neurons and small networks.

Publications

https://www.treestoolbox.org/hermann/hermann_publications.html

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At FIAS

2014 – today Research Fellow

Further organisations

2014 - today Group leader ESI

Awards

• Bernstein Award (2013)