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Curriculum vitae Dr. rer. nat. Dipl.-Psych. Dipl.-Inf. Katharina Dobs

  • Education

    03/2015 Doctorate (supervisors: Dr. Isabelle Bülthoff and PD Johannes Schultz), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany
    2002-2008 Degree Programme: Psychology, University of Marburg, Germany
    2002-2007 Degree Programme: Computer Science, University of Marburg, Germany

  • Academic and Professional Career

    2020-current Research Group Leader of Visual Cognition & Computational Neuroscience Lab, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
    2017-2020 Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, Kanwisher Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
    2017 DFG Return Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
    2015-2017 DFG Postdoctoral Fellow, Brain and Cognition Research Center, CerCo-CNRS, Toulouse, France

  • Institutional Responsibilities

    2020-current Member of the PhD committee at the Faculty of Psychology and Sports Science, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
    2020-current Member of the Ethics committee, Faculty of Psychology and Sports Science, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
    2012-2014 Max Planck PhD representative of the Dept. Human Perception, Cognition and Action, Tübingen, Germany

  • Commissions of Trust

    2022-current Co-PI on deep learning service project for promoting and supporting the use of deep learning within the CRC/TRR 135
    2022 Member of election committee and hiring panels, CRC/TRR 135 and ‘The Adaptive Mind’ funded by the Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and the Arts (HMWK)
    2021 Organizer & Co-Chair of symposium ‘Developments in deep neural network models of perception: From low to high-level vision’ at TeaP (Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen), Ulm, Germany
    2020-current Member of the PhD committee at the Faculty of Psychology and Sports Science, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
    2020-current Mentor for Mentoring Hessen and Minerva FemmeNet of the Max-Planck Society for career advancement for women
    2020-current Member of the Ethics committee, Faculty of Psychology and Sports Science, Justus Liebig University, Germany
    2012-2014 Max Planck PhD representative of the Dept. Human Perception, Cognition and Action, Tübingen, Germany
    2011-2012 Co-Organizer of the NeNa conference (Conference of Junior Neuroscientists), Heiligkreuztal/Schramberg, Germany

  • Fellowships, Awards and Third Party Funding

    2024 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Award by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
    2023 ERC Starting Grant DEEPFUNC
    2020 Cosyne Travel Award
    2019 Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN) Trainee Travel Award
    2017-2019 Feodor-Lynen Research Fellowship
    2015-2017 DFG Postdoctoral Fellowship
    2015 Best Dissertation Award from the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
    2015 Travel Award from the German Academic Exchange Service
    2013 Japan Society for the Promoting of Science Fellowship
    2012 Elsevier/VSS Student Travel Award

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