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Curriculum vitae Prof. Benjamin 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), Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany

  • Academic and Professional Career

    since 2023 Professor of Experimental Psychology and Individual Perception, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
    2020-2025 ERC group leader (ERC StG INDIVISUAL), Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
    2017-2019 DFG Return and JUST’US Fellow, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany (Karl Gegenfurtner)
    2015-2017 DFG Research Fellow, University College London, UK (Sam Schwarzkopf, Marty Sereno)
    2013-2015 Research Associate, University College London, UK (Sam Schwarzkopf)

  • Institutional Responsibilities

    2024-current Chair of user council, Bender Institute of Neuroimaging (BION), Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
    2021-current Co-PI on infrastructure project for sharing data and code, CRC/TRR 135, Justus Liebig Universtiy Giessen, Germany
    2021-2025 Co-PI on service project Data Hub, Cluster project The Adaptive Mind funded by the Hession Ministry for Higher Education, Research, Science and the Arts (HMWK), Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany

  • Commisions of Trust

    2022 Member of election committee and hiring panels, CRC/TRR 135 and ‘The Adaptive Mind’, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany

  • Fellowships, Awards and Third Party Funding

    2022-current DFG CRC/TRR 135 (Co-PI)
    2021-2025 HMWK Cluster project The Adaptive Mind (Co-PI)
    2021-2024 DFG Grant (HA 7574 5-1, PI)
    2020-2025 ERC Starting Grant (INDIVISUAL)
    2019 Justus Liebig University Giessen Award
    2018 JUST’US Fellowship, Justus Liebig University 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 VSS Student Travel Award
    2009-2013 Wellcome Trust 4-year PhD in Neuroscience
    2007-2009 Scholarship, German Academic Scholarship Foundation
    2006 Release from university fees due to outstanding intermediate exams
    2001 High School Graduate Prize of the German Physical Society

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