Surname: Körding
Forenames: Konrad Paul
Title: PhD ETH
Nationality: German
Date of birth: 6.8.73
Place of birth: Darmstadt
Marital status: not married, no children
Private address: Flat 42, Tonbridge House, Tonbridge street
WC1H 9PE London; Great Britain
Telephone, privat: +44-7968-902173
Work address: Institute of Neurology
Queen Square
WC1N 3BG London, United Kingdom
Telephone (work):+44 (0)20 7837 3611 x4404
Fax: +44-(0)20-7813 3107
eMail: konrad@koerding.com
Current Position: Postdoc, payed by the Wellcome Trust, addressing learning and optimality in the motor system with Prof. Wolpert
2001-2002: Postdoc, payed jointly by the Collegium Helveticum and the EU AMOUSE project
2001 PhD "Optimization and Learning: from microscopic cell properties to natural videos"
1999 Animal research permit and "Anästhesie und Chirurgie bei kleinen Versuchstieren", both at "Institut für Labortierkunde".
1997 Diploma-thesis "On the purpose of a backpropagating action potential." at ETH Zürich
1993-1997 Physics for a total of 8 terms (6 terms at the Uni. Heidelberg, 2 at the ETH/Zürich)
1993 Abitur am Alten Kurfürstlichen Gymnasium in Bensheim
2001-2002 Postgraduate Support: Collegiate of Collegium Helveticum: "Für den Dialog der Wissenschaften."
1997-2001 Graduate Support: Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds
1993-1997 Undergraduate Support: Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (since 1994).
1993, 1994 Participation in "Jugend Forscht", the German national contest for young scientists. Together with Marc Alaxa and Paul Grimm I reached the last round of the contest with programs, simluating the biological growth of trees. We were awarded the third price on the national level and the price of the DFG for interdisciplinary work.
1992-1994 Repeated Participation at the national contest of informatics. Reaching the second out of three rounds.
1992 Successful Participation in the selection process of the International Physics Olympics. Thus I qualified for:
1993 Participation with the "Supercomputing Honor Students" project at the Lawrence Livermore Lab in California. Massively Parallel Algorithms.
1992 Awarded Participation in a "Schülerakademie", attending a two-week course on physical measuring.
1990-1994 Bundeswettbewerb Mathematik" the national contest for mathematics . Three second prices in the second level.
2002-present Postdoc at the Institute of Neurology with Prof. Wolpert
2001-2002 Collegiate at Collegium Helveticum.
1998-2001 PhD - Student at Neuroinformatics, ETH/University Zürich.
1997 Assistant scientist at the institute of neurobiology in Heidelberg.
1996-1997 Assistant scientist at the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg.
1994-1996 Assistant scientist at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Scientific Calculating in Heidelberg.
1993-1994 Assistant scientist (partially during alternative service) at the Institute For Graphical Dataprocessing Darmstadt.
I teached a 1 week school course with Katharina Spalek on Seeing and Naming, from perception to image naming
I teached a 3 day school course together with Wolfgang Einhäuser on Fooling the Brain to understand it : Optical Illusions
I gave two lectures in Thomas Haslwanters lecture Biophysics and Signalprocessing of sensory Systems
I was assistant to Kevan Martin's and Rodney Douglas's lecture "Biophysics of Neural Computation" twice in the terms 1999/2000 and 2000/2001 where I ran the exercises.
I furthermore gave a lecture on "Unsupervised learning" within the lecture series of Paul Verschure and Peter König on "Physiologische Grundlagen kognitiver Prozesse"
I greatly appreciate working together with the following students: