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Curriculum vitae Prof. Roland Fleming, PhD

  • Education

    2004 PhD in Cognitive Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
    1999 BA (Hons) in Psychology, Physiology and Philosophy, Oxford University, UK

  • Academic and Professional Career

    2020-current Kurt Koffka Professor of Experimental Psychology (W3), Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
    2016-2020 Kurt Koffka Professor of Experimental Psychology (W2), Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
    2010-2016 Kurt Koffka Junior Professor of Experimental Psychology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
    2006-2010 Project Leader, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany

  • Institutional Responsibilities

    2024-current Deputy Executive Director of the Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior (CMBB), Universities of Marburg, Giessen and Darmstadt
    2021-current Speaker of the Cluster project ‘The Adaptive Mind’ funded by the Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and the Arts (HMWK)
    2021-2024 Executive Director of the Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior (CMBB), Universities of Marburg and Giessen
    2016-current Organizing Committee, Visual Neurosciences Summer School, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
    2013-2016 Speaker of Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) ‘PRISM’
    2012-2018 Organizing Committee, Computational Vision Summer School, Bernstein Center, Tübingen

  • Commissions of Trust

    Ad hoc reviewer for over 30 Journals, Conferences and Funding Agencies
    2022-current Co-Chair of the Discovery Program Interview Panel, Wellcome Trust, UK
    2021-current Executive Director, Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior
    2020-current Associate Editor: Journal of Vision, PLoS Computational Biology
    2019-2022 Interview Panel Member, Wellcome Trust, UK
    2018-2019 Expert Review Group, Wellcome Trust, UK
    2009-2013 Editor-In-Chief ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (max. 2-term tenure)
    2005-2007 Organizing Committee: ACM Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization

  • Fellowships, Awards and Third Party Funding

    2023-2028 ERC Advanced Grant ‘STUFF’
    2022 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology
    2017-2022 EU Marie Curie Initial Training Network – DyVito
    2016-2021 ERC Consolidator Grant ‘SHAPE’
    2016-2017 Google Research Award
    2014-current DFG: SFB-TRR-135 “Cardinal Mechanisms of Perception”
    2013-2022 DFG: IRTG 1901 “The Brain in Action”
    2013-2016 EU Marie Curie Initial Training Network – PRISM. Role: Coordinator
    2013 Vision Sciences Society / Elsevier Young Investigator Award
    2012-2014 NSF-BMBF Joint Program in Computational Neuroscience (FKZ: 01GQ1111)
    2012 “Preis der Justus Liebig Universität”: Faculty Research Prize, Justus Liebig University Giessen
    2011 Co-Author on Eduardo Caianiello Best Student Paper, International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing
    2003 Vision Sciences Society Student Award
    2001, 2003 2 Departmental Teaching Awards, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT, USA

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