Prof. Andreas Herz

• computational neuroscience and cellular biophysics; focus on mechanosensory transduction;

• optimality and adaptation of sensory systems;

• acoustic communication, auditory processing and sexual selection;

• interaction of cell-intrinsic rhythms and large-scale oscillations;

• collective properties of neural networks.

In the past, I have also worked extensively in the fields of applied mathematics, statistical physics, game theory and theoretical immunology.

• We use methods from the theory of dynamical systems and probability theory to analyze and model electrophysiological data (partly

recorded in my own lab, partly by collaborators) and to compare them with theoretical predictions.

• We are also developing novel techniques to integrate real-time data analysis methods into neurobiological experiments.

Following my recent move from HU Berlin to LMU Munich in June 2008, I am currently setting up the lab and exploring new projects that will

combine my previous work with ongoing research at the BCCN Munich.

• From mechanical vibrations to spike trains: merging complementary approaches to auditory processing [Bernstein Cooperation with
  

Martin Goepfert (Cologne) and Jan Benda (Munich)]

• Remembrance of things (just) past – mechanisms underlying ephemeral memory traces revealed by classical conditioning of temporally
  

disjunct stimuli [Bernstein Focus Learning; Cooperation with Hiromu Tanimoto (Munich) and Giovanni Galizia and Paul Szyszka (Konstanz)]