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Prof. Dr. Giese, Martin A.
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Room: 5.532a
Section for Computational Sensomotorics
Department of Cognitive Neurology
Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research
Centre for Integrative Neuroscience
University Clinic Tübingen
Otfried-Müller-Str. 25
72076 Tübingen, Germany
+497071 2989124
+49 70712925014
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Research Interests:
- Neural and NN models of high-level vision (social perception)
- Neural mechanisms of motion, action, and social perception (physiology, psychophysics)
- Movement analysis and computational modelling of the motor system
- Technical applications related to movement disorders and psychiatric diseases
- Mechanisms of non-invasive neural stimulation
Short CV:
M. Giese studied Electrical Engineering and Psychology at Ruhr University in Bochum. Following a Postdoc position at the Department of Brain and Cognitive Science at M.I.T., he founded the Boston Research Laboratory for Honda Americas in 2000. From 2001 to 2007, he headed a Junior Research Group at the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research (HIH) at the University of Tübingen. He completed his habilitation at the Department of Informatics at the University of Ulm in 2006. From 2007 to 2008, he held the position of Senior Lecturer at the Department of Psychology at the University of Wales, Bangor. Since 2008 and continuing to the present, he has been heading of the Section for Computational Sensomotorics at the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and the HIH. His scientific interests are neuroscience and related technical applications. The main topic of his laboratory are the perception and control of complex body motion, neural modelling, and technical and clinical application of learning-based representations for then synthesis and analysis of body movement, and mechanisms of non-invasive brain stimulation. M. Giese has founded the Master's track 'Neural Information Processing' at the Graduate Training Centre for Neuroscience in Tübingen. He has served as Associated Editor and Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Applied Perception. He is Associate Editor of Frontiers in Computational Neurosciences and Cognitive Neurodynamics. Furthermore, he serves as the Co-Speaker for the Hertie Network of Excellence in Clinical Neuroscience (site Tübingen) and the Else Kröner-Fresenius Graduate College (EKFS) in Clinical Brain: Artificial Intelligence in Brain Science. Since 2022, he has also been the spokesperson for Research Area N3 of the HIH, which focuses on Neurohabilitation, Neuroprosthetics, and Neurotechnology. He is a member of the steering board of the Competence Center of Biointelligence (e.V.) founded by the Fraunhofer IPA (Stuttgart), and he is a liaison professor of the German National Merit Foundation.
Kurzlebenslauf:
M. Giese hat Elektrotechnik und Psychologie an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum studiert. Nach einem Postdoc an der Abteilung für Brain and Cognitive Science am Massachusetts Institut für Technologie (M.I.T.) begründete er im Jahr 2000 das Boston Forschungslabor von Honda Americas. Von 2001 bis 2007 war er Leiter einer Nachwuchsgruppe am Hertie Institut für klinische Hirnforschung (HIH) in Tübingen. Er hat 2006 in Informatik an der Universität Ulm habilitiert. Von 2007 bis 2008 war er Senior Lecturer am Department of Psychology an der University of Wales, Bangor. Seit 2008 ist er Leiter der Sektion für Theoretische Sensomotorik am Centrum für Integrative Neurowissenschaften (CIN) und am HIH in Tübingen. Die wissenschaftlichen Interessen der Arbeitsgruppe sind im Bereich der theoretischen Neurowissenschaft und verwandter technischer Anwendungen. Ein wesentlicher Fokus sind die neuronalen Mechanismen der Wahrnehmung und Kontrolle von Körperbewegungen, assoziierte neuronale Modelle, sowie technische und klinischen Anwendungen lernbasierter Repräsentationen für die Synthese und Analyse von Bewegungen. Außerdem werden im Nagermodell die Mechanismen nichtinvasiver Hirnstimulation untersucht. M. Giese ist der Begründer des Masters-Programms "Neural Information Processing" am Graduate Training Center for Neuroscience in Tübingen. Er ist bzw. War Associated Editor und Editor-in-Chief der ACM Transactions on Applied Perception. Er ist auch Associate Editor von Frontiers in Computational Neurosciences und von Cognitive Neurodynamics. Er is zudem Ko-Sprecher des Hertie Network of Excellence in Clinical Neuroscience (für Tübingen) und des Else Kröner-Fresenius Graduiertenkollegs (EKFS) ClinBrain: Artificial Intelligence in Brain Science. Seit 2022 ist er auch Sprecher des Forschungsbereiches N3 des HIH, der sich mit Neurohabilitation, Neuroprothetik und Neurotechnologie befasst. M. Giese ist Mitglied des Vorstandes des Kompetenznetzwerks für Biointelligenz (e.V.), das vom Fraunhofer Institut für Prozessautomatisierung (IPA) begründet wurde. Zudem ist er Vertrauensdozent der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.
Projects
- RELEVANCE: How body relevance drives brain organization
- Learning Hierarchical Models for Motor Control
- Neural mechanisms underlying the visual analysis of intent
- Modeling of human robot interaction and use of humanoid robots for rehabilitation training
- Synthesis of complex locomotion behavior for humanoid robots based on biological principles
- Online Controllable Models of Complex Body Movements for Biomedical Applications
- SSTeP KiZ: smart sensor technology in tele-psychotherapy for children and adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Advancing Brain Stimulation with Nano Devices
- Brain stimulation and cortical plasticity
- Higly realistic monkey body avatars with veridical motion
- Neurodynamical models of the single-cell activity of body-selective visual neurons
- Deep Gaussian Process models for Real-Time Blendshape Prediction on GPU
- Probabilistic models for the online-synthesis of emotional and interactive full-body motion
- Analyzing the role of mirror neurons in action encoding and selection
- Development of TMS-grade electrophysiology equipment
- Modelling and Investigation of Facial Expression Perception
- Neural field model for multi-stability in action perception
- Standardizing TMS Electrophysiology Setup
- Smart sensor technology in telepsychotherapy for children and adolescents SStep-KiZ
- Smart Eyes: Attending and Recognizing Instances of Salient Events – SEARISE
- Rehabilitation training exploiting physiotherapy, computer games and biofeedback
- Quantification of subtle motor changes in preclinical stages of neurodegenerative diseases
- Production and perception of interactive emotional body expressions
- Processing of emotional body expressions in health and disease
- Online motion synthesis by networks of learned dynamic primitives for humanoid robots
- Neurodynamic model for multi-stability in action perception
- Neuralphysiologically-inspired models of visual action perception and the perception of causality
- Neural representations of sensory predictions for perception and action
- Neural model for shading pathway in biological motion stimuli
- Motor learning and the functional role of the cerebellum
- Influence of action execution on biological motion perception
- Dynamical Stability and Synchronization in Character Animation
- Development of exergames for the motor training in cerebellar ataxia
- Cost-efficient system for movement quantification in neurology
- Component-based Trajectory Models for Human Character Animation
- Cerebellar involvement in the facilitation of action perception by concurrent motor activity
- AMARSi (Adaptive Modular Architectures for Rich Motor Skills)