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Curriculum vitae Ben de Haas, PhD

  • Education

    2009-2014 Wellcome Trust 4-year PhD in Neuroscience, University College London (UCL), UK
    Thesis: Contextual Modulations of Visual Perception and Visual Cortex Activity in Humans (Profs Geraint Rees, Jon Driver, Vincent Walsh)
    2004-2009 ‚Dipl. Psych.’ degree in Psychology (Minor: Medicine), JLU Giessen, GER

  • Academic and Professional Career

    since 2023 Professor of Experimental Psychology and individual perception, JLU
    From 2022 Co-PI, CRC TRR 135 Cardinal Mechanisms of Perception, JLU
    From 2021 Co-PI, HMWK Cluster Initiative The Adaptive Mind, JLU
    From 2020 ERC group leader, JLU Giessen (ERC StG INDIVISUAL)
    2017-2019 DFG Return and JUST’US Fellow, JLU Giessen (Karl Gegenfurtner)
    2015-2017 DFG Research Fellow, UCL (Sam Schwarzkopf, Marty Sereno)
    2013-2015 Research Associate, UCL (Sam Schwarzkopf)

  • Institutional Responsibilities

    From 2022 Co-PI on infrastructure project, CRC TRR 135, JLU
    From 2021 Co-PI on service project Data Hub, Cluster Initiative The Adaptive Mind, JLU
    From 2019 Member of the electoral board for the CRC/TRR 135, JLU

  • Fellowships, Awards and Third Party Funding

    2022-25 DFG CRC TRR 135 (sfb-perception.de, Co-PI)
    2021-25 HMWK Cluster Initiative (theadaptivemind.de, Co-PI)
    2021-24 DFG Grant (HA 7574 5-1, PI)
    2020-2024 ERC Starting Grant (INDIVISUAL, PI)
    2019 Justus Liebig University Giessen Award
    2018-20 JUST’US Fellowship, JLU Gießen
    2017 DFG Return Grant (HA 7574 3-1)
    2016, 2014, 2012 Travel grants, Guarantors of Brain
    2015 DFG Research Fellowship (HA 7574/1-1)
    2014 European Summer School Visual Neuroscience
    2014 VSS Student Travel Award
    2009-2013 Wellcome Trust 4-year PhD in Neuroscience
    2007-2009 Studienstiftung scholarship
    2006 Release from university fees due to outstanding intermediate exams
    2001 A-level honours, German Physical Society (DPG)

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