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Curriculum vitae Prof. Dr. Dipl.-Psych. Daniel Kaiser

  • Education

    2015 Doctorate (supervisor: Marius Peelen), Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Italy
    2007-2012 Degree Programme: Psychology, University of Regensburg, Germany

  • Academic and Professional Career

    2021-current Professor for Neural Computation, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
    2019-2021 Lecturer (Assistant Professor), University of York, UK
    2017-2019 Postdoctoral Researcher, Free University of Berlin, Germany
    2016-2017 Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Trento, Italy
    2016 Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany

  • Institutional Responsibilities

    2024-current Deputy head of the Bender Institute of Neuoimaging (BION) user council, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
    2022-current Member of the Board of Directors, Giessen Graduate Center for Natural Sciences and Psychology (GGN), Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany

  • Commissions of Trust

    2020-2021 Member of the Scientific Committee of the York Neuroimaging Centre, University of York, UK
    2020-2021 Head of the Research Ethics Committee of the York Neuroimaging Centre, University of York, UK
    2020-2021 Member of the Ethics Committee of the Institute of Psychology, University of York, UK

  • Fellowships, Awards and Third Party Funding

    2023-2027 ERC starting grant “PEP” Personalized priors – How idiosyncrasies in internal models explain individual differences in natural vision – 1,484,625€
    2022-2025 Research Grant Spatiotemporal prediction in the cortical processing of natural visual information (DFG; Project within CRC135) – 426,800€
    2019 Research Startup Stipend by the Department of Education and Psychology at Free University of Berlin – 2,000€
    2018-2021 Research grant Objects in Scenes funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) – 340.320€
    2017/18 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Seal of Excellence (for scoring 89/92% with EU MSC proposals)
    2017 CIMeC Young Researcher Award (among the three best junior researchers in 10 years) – 500€
    2016 Humboldt Talent Travel Award, Humboldt University of Berlin (one month visiting postdoc) – 3,000€
    2012-2015 PhD grant of the CIMeC, University of Trento – monthly stipend (1,200€)
    2011 Research internship stipend of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation – 1,100€
    2009-2012 Studentship of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation – monthly stipend (300€)

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