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Curriculum vitae Prof. Dr. Dipl.-Phys. Jochen Triesch

  • Education

    1999 Dr. rer. nat., Faculty of Physics, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
    1989-1994 Diploma in Physics, Faculty of Physics, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany and University of Sussex, UK
  • Academic and Professional Career

    2020-2022 Visiting Professor (French Tech Chair), Université Clermont-Auvergene, France
    2007-current Johanna Quandt Chair for Theoretical Life Science, FIAS, Germany
    2007-current Full Professor with the Dept. of Computer Science and Mathematics and the Dept. of Physics, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
    2005-2007 Fellow, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany
    2001-2007 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Cognitive Science, UC San Diego, USA
    1999-2001 Postdoc, Computer Science Dept. and Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester, USA
  • Institutional Responsibilities

    2017-current Initiator and Speaker of the German priority program ‘Computational Connectomics’ (SPP-2041) funded by the DFG with over ~13 M€
    2017-2020 Coordinator of DFG Priority Program SPP-2041 „Computational Connectomics“
    2016-2019 Coordinator of ERA-Net Neuron project Neuro-DREAM (Neuro-Developmental Research on the Etiology of Amblyopia and its Management)
    2012-2017 Vice-Chairman, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies Board of Directors
    2010-2022 Vice-Chairman: Interdisciplinary Center for Neuroscience Frankfurt (ICNF). This board of 4 scientists and coordinates the activities of over 60 research groups in Frankfurt
    2007-2017 Member, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies Board of Directors
    2007-2017 Director, Frankfurt International Graduate School of Science
  • Commissions of Trust

    2023-current Chair: IEEE Task Force on Developmental AI of the Technical Committee on Cognitive and Developmental Systems
    2021-2022 Chair: IEEE Computational Intelligence Society’s Technical Committee on Cognitive and Developmental Systems
    2010-current Member: Scientific Committee of the Rhein-Main Neuroscience Network (RMN2). This board of 9 scientists coordinates the activities of over 90 research groups in the larger Rhine-Main area
  • Fellowships, Awards and Third Party Funding

    2021 Best Paper Award: Seeliger N, Triesch J, Intl. Conf. on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN)
    2019-2022 French Tech Chair: guest professorship at the Univeristy Clermont-Auvergne, France. Project title „Brain-Inspired Artificial Intelligence for Mobile Robots“. Funding: Euro 200,000
    2018 Best Paper Award: Klimmasch L, Schneider J, Lelais A, Shi BE, Triesch J, Intl. Conf. on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior  (SAB)
    2017-2021 Collaborative grant: CePTER – Center for Personalized Translational Epilepsy Research.
    Funding for my lab: Euro 573,667
    2016-2020 EU Project 713010 GOAL-Robots.
    Funding for my lab: Euro 709,875
    2014-2017 BMBF 01GQ1414 „Autonomous Learning of Active Depth Perception“. Joint Japan-Germany intitiative with Sungmoon Jeong, Japan Advanced Institute of Sience and Technology.
    Funding for my lab: Euro 217,098
    2014-2017 DFG TR 881/1-1 „Gaze-Controlled Contingency Learning in Babys and Infants“. Joint project with Monika Knopf, Goethe University Frankfurt.
    Funding for my lab: Euro 121,400
    2009-2014 Co-Coordinator of BMBF project 01GQ0840 “Bernstein Focus Neurotechnology Frankfurt: Frankfurt Vision Initiative”. Large center grant (total funding approx. 8,034,254 Mio Euro),
    funding for my lab: approx. Euro 877,000 from BMBF and Euro 96,250 from Honda
    2011-2014 LOEWE-Schwerpunkt NeFF (2011-2013) „Neuronale Koordination Forschungsschwer-punkt Frankfurt“. Within this center I lead a joint project “Theoretische Untersuchungen zur Emergenz neuronaler Koordination” with Gordon Pipa and Christoph von der Malsburg.
    Funding for my lab: Euro 126,000
    2010-2013 EU FP7-ICT-IP-231722: “IM-CLeVeR: Intrinsically Motivated Cumulative Learning Versatile Robots”. Develops control systems for robots that explore and learn based on curiosity drives.
    Funding for my lab: approx. Euro 572,000
    2011-2012 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) „Joint emergence of disparity tuning and vergence eye movements“.
    Euro 13,988
    2006 Marie-Curie Excellence Center Award of European Union
    2006-2010 EU MEXT-CT-2006-042484: PLICON: Plasticity and Learning in Cortical Networks. This was a Marie Curie Excellence Center Award for my lab that supported much of our work on modeling the interaction of different forms of neuronal plasticity.
    Funding: approx. Euro 1,097,000
    2005-2008 “The Emergence of Social Attention-Sharing in Infancy,” Gedeon O. Deak, Jochen Triesch, and Kang Lee.
    NSF: USD 749,747
    2003-2005 “Developmental Approaches to the Learning of Object Categories,” Javier Movellan, Jochen Triesch, Virginia de Sa.
    NSF: USD 296,646
    2003-2005 “The MESA Project: Modeling the Emergence of Shared Attention,” Jochen Triesch, Gedeon O. Deak, and Javier Movellan.
    National Alliance for Autism Research: USD 120,000
    2003-2005 “Probabilistic Cue Integration of Multimodal Sensor Data in Biologically Inspired Machine Vision Systems,” Jochen Triesch.
    NSF: USD 24,075
    2002-2005 “Biologically Inspired Hierarchical Architecture for View-Based Object Recognition in Cluttered Scenes,” Jochen Triesch. 
    NSF: USD 350,702
    2002-2003 “Neural Models of the Development and Dysfunction of Shared Attention: Testing Parameters of Social Learning that Might Underlie Autistic Behavior,” Gedeon Deak, Jochen Triesch, and Javier Movellan.
    UC Davis MIND Institute: USD 112,691
    2001-2002 “Probabilistic Integration of Information from Multiple Cameras,” Joachim Denzler and Jochen Triesch.
    Bavaria California Technology Center: Euro ∼10,000

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