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Curriculum vitae Prof. Dr. Martin Hebart

  • Education

    2008–2014 PhD (Dr. rer. nat., Psychology), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    2018–2012 Doctoral Program Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    2007–2008 Master’s Program Neuro-cognitive Psychology (M.Sc.), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
    2006–2007 Bachelor’s Program Neuro-cognitive Psychology (B.Sc.), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
    2003–2006 Study of Psychology (Prediploma), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

  • Academic and Professional Career

    2022–present LOEWE-Start-Professor (W2, tenure track W3) for Computational Cognitive Neuroscience & Quantitative Psychiatry, Department of Medicine, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gießen, DE
    2019–present Max Planck Research Group Leader, Vision and Computational Cognition Group, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, DE
    2016–2019 Postdoc, Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, 
    Bethesda, MD, US
    2012–2016 Research Associate, Department of Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, DE

  • Institutional Responsibilities

    2025–present Directorate of Giessen Graduate Center Neuroscience & Psychology (GGN), Gießen, DE
    2023–present Member of Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior (CMBB), Universities of Marburg, Gießen and Darmstadt, DE
    2023–present Member of Giessen Graduate Center Neuroscience & Psychology (GGN), Gießen, DE
    2023–present Faculty Member, International Max Planck Research School CoNi, Leipzig, DE
    2023–2025 Head Doctoral Committee, Department of Medicine, JLU Gießen, DE
    2020–2023 Faculty Member, International Max Planck Research School Neurocom, Leipzig, DE
    2020 Head Commission for Establishment of Online Studies at Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, DE

  • Professional Activities

    Memberships
    Gießen University Society, Vision Science Society, German Association of University Professors and Lecturers
    Organization of Scientific Meetings
    2025 Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), Workshop “Deep Learning in Psychology”, Frankfurt am Main, DE
    2019 European Conference of Visual Perception, Symposium “Big data in vision science”, Leuven, BE
    2016 Scientific Colloquium “Neuro-Wissen Schaffen”, Munich, DE
    2015 Scientific Colloquium “Neuro-Wissen Schaffen”, Hamburg, DE
    2013 European Conference of Visual Perception, Symposium “The scope and limits of visual processing under continuous flash suppression”, Bremen, DE
    Editor
    2020 Principal Guest Editor for Special Issues in Neuropsychologia on “Topics in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience”
    Journal Reviewer (selected)
    Biological Psychiatry, Cerebral Cortex, Cognition, Communications Psychology, eLife, Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Vision, Nature Communications, Nature Human Behaviour, Nature Machine Intelligence, Neural Networks, Neuroinformatics, Neuron, Neuropsychologia, PLoS Computational Biology, Science, Science Advances, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Trends in Neurosciences
    External Doctoral Committees
    Radboud University (NL), Technical University Delft (DK), University of Cambridge (UK), University of Helsinki (FI), University of Leipzig (DE), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
    Grant Reviewer (selected)
    Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), European Research Council (ERC), German Research Foundation (DFG), National Science Foundation (NSF)

  • Awards and Third Party Funding

    2026–2030 Research Training Group “Perception and Interaction with Materials and Objects
    in Natural environments” (PIMON)
    2026–2032 Excellence Cluster “The Adaptive Mind”
    2025 CMBB Science Communication Prize
    2024 OpenAI Research Credits, OpenAI 
    2023–2025 SFB-TRR 135 Cardinal Mechanisms of Perception, TP C11, DFG 
    2022–2028 LOEWE Start Professorship, Hessian Ministry for Science and the Arts
    2022 LOEWE Start Professorship, Hessian Ministry for Science and the Arts
    2022 IGOR Prize for Open and Reproducible Research, German Society for Psychology
    2022–2027 ERC Starting Grant COREDIM, Horizon Europe, European Research Council 
    2019–2025 Max Planck Research Group, Max Planck Society
    2016–2020 Intramural Research Fellowship, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda 
    2016–2017 Feodor Lynen Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
    2016 Intramural Research Fellowship, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, US
    2016 Feodor Lynen Postdoctoral Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
    2009 Doctoral Scholarship, German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des dt. Volkes)
    2008 Doctoral Scholarship, Berlin School of Mind and Brain
    2006 Student Scholarship, German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des dt. Volkes)

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