Göttinger Graduiertenzentrum für Neurowissenschaften, Biophysik und Molekulare Biowissenschaften

Wörgötter, Florentin, Prof. Dr.

Professor of Physics


  • 1988 -1990 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, CNS Program, Prof. Dr. Koch, Div. of Biology 216-76, CALTECH, Pasadena, USA.
  • 1990 - 1995 Assistant at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Institut f. Physiologie, Prof. Dr. Eysel, Bochum, FRG.
  • 1994 Visiting Professor at the Academia Sinica, Inst. of Biophysics, Prof. Dr. Diao, Beijing, China.
  • 1995 - 2000 Heisenberg Fellow at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Institut f. Physiologie.
  • 1997 - 1997 Visiting Professor at the KTH, Stockholm, NADA-SANS, Prof. A. Lansner, Sweden.
  • 2000 Professor (“apl.”) at the Medical School in Bochum
  • 2000-2005 Professor at the Dept. of Psychology, Univ. Stirling, Scotland
  • 2002-2005 Director of INCITE (Institute of Neuronal Computational Intelligence & Technology)
  • since 2005 Professor at the Bernstein Center of University of Göttingen, Germany



Major Research Interests

Computational neuroscience, Artificial Neural Network, Experimental Neuroscience, Temporal Sequence Learning, Models of Synaptic Plasticity, The visual System and its Functional Connectivity



Homepage Department/Research Group

https://alexandria.physik3.uni-goettingen.de/cns-group/

Selected Recent Publications


  • Lettermann, L., Jurado, A., Betz, T., Wörgötter F.& Herzog, S. (2024) Tutorial: a beginner’s guide to building a representative model of dynamical systems using the adjoint method. Nat. Com. Physics, 7(1), 128.

  • Tamosiunaite, M., Tetzlaff, C., & Wörgötter F. (2024) Unsupervised learning of perceptual feature combinations. PLOS Comp. Biol., 20(3), e1011926.

  • Braun, J.M., Fauth, M., Berger, M., Huang, N.-S., Simeoni, E., Gaeta, E, Rodrigues do Carmo, R. Garcia-Betances, R.I., Arredondo Waldmeyer, M.T., Gail, A., Larsen, J.C., Manoonpong, P. ,Tetzlaff, C. Wörgötter F. (2024) A Brain Machine Interface Framework for Exploring Proactive Control of Smart Environments. Scientific Reports 14, 11054.

  • Kulvicius, T., Zhang, D., Nielsen-Saines, K., Bölte, S., Kraft, M., Einspieler, C., Poustka, L., Wörgötter F. and Marschik, P.B., (2023) Infant movement classification through pressure distribution analysis. Nat. Com Medicine, 3(1), p.112.