Andreas Karl Engel#
Photo: Axel Kirchhof/UKE
| Membership Number: | 6661 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Affiliated section(s): | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.40hz.net |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-4899-8466 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 - present Scientific Director, Center for Experimental Medicine, UKE, Hamburg, DE
- 2017 - present Visiting Professor, Dept. of Information and Communication Technologies (DTIC), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, ES
- 2011 - present Coordinator of Collaborative Research Centre SFB 936 ‚Multi-site communication in the brain‘ (with C. Gerloff, Dept. of Neurology), UKE, Hamburg, DE
- 2004 - present Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Hamburg, DE
- 2002 - present Full Professor of Physiology and Director of Dept. of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Hamburg, DE
- 2000 - 2002 Head of Cellular Neurobiology Group, Institute for Medicine, Research Center Jülich, DE
- 1996 - 2000 DFG Heisenberg-Fellow and Head of Research Group, Dept. of Neurophysiology, Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, DE
- 1987 - 1995 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Neurobiology, Dept. of Neurophysiology, Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, DE
Fields of Scholarship
- Role of action in cognitive processing
- Theories of perception and action
- Dynamics of sensori-motor assemblies
- Multi-timescale theory of neural coupling modes
- Role of temporal binding for intermodal and sensorimotor integration
- Use of neurostimulation approaches for modulation of network dynamics
- Neural mechanisms of attention, emotion, decision making, consciousness
- Brain-computer interfaces
- Role of synchronization and oscillations for binding processes
- Changes of large-scale neural coupling in neurological and psychiatric disorders
Honours and Awards
- 2023 - 2028 Award of an ERC Advanced Grant
- 2011 - 2016 Award of an ERC Advanced Grant (with P. König, Univ. of Osnabrück)
- 2008 - present Elected member of „Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg“
- 1997 - 1998 Daimler-Benz Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Study Berlin
- 1996 - 2000 Award of a five-year Heisenberg-Fellowship, DFG
- 1980 - 1985 Undergraduate and doctoral fellowship of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes)
