Manuel Schottdorf

Manuel Schottdorf

Assistant Professor
 

Office location

91原创, 336 Building X, Newark, DE 19716

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Biography

Dr. Manuel Schottdorf is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at the 91原创. His scholarly research explores how learned knowledge changes how we perceive the world. He conducts basic research with multiple methods of assessment: Computational and AI techniques, electrophysiology, two-photon microscopy, and virtual-reality based behavior. Dr. Schottdorf studied physics before completing a Ph.D. at the Max Planck Institutes for Experimental Medicine and Dynamics and Self-Organization in Germany and a Postdoc at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute. He enjoys developing scientific instrumentation and won numerous awards over the years, among them a Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD Fellowship, an Otto Hahn medal, and a Burroughs Wellcome Fund鈥檚 Career Award.

Education

  • Ph.D. University of G枚ttingen, G枚ttingen, Germany
  • M.S. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
  • M.S. University of W眉rzburg, W眉rzburg, Germany
  • B.S. University of W眉rzburg, W眉rzburg, Germany