CV Sprekeler

1.     General Information

a)     Sprekeler, Henning, Prof. Dr. rer. nat.

b)     Modelling of Cognitive Processes, Dep. For Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Technische Universität Berlin, Marchstr. 23, 10587 Berlin

2.     Academic Education

a)     Physics (10/1997 – 07/2003), Technische Universität Berlin, Diploma in Physics

3.     Scientific degrees

a)     Promotion: Theoretical Biology, Humboldt-University Berlin, 2008, Prof. Dr. L. Wiskott

4.     Professional experience

a)     04/2008 – 03/2011, Postdoctoral Researcher, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, Prof. Dr. W. Gerstner

b)     04/2011– 03/2012, Postdoctoral Researcher, Humboldt-University Berlin, Prof. Dr. R. Kempter

c)     04/2012 – 09/2012, Guest Professor,  Technische Universität Berlin

d)     10/2012 – 09/2014, Research Group Leader, Humboldt-University Berlin

e)     09/2013 – 09/2014, Lecturer, Cambridge University, UK

f)      Since 10/2014, Full Professor (W3) for Modelling of Cognitive Processes, Technische Universität Berlin 

5.     Others (Editorial work, Member of scientific councils, advisory boards, awards)

Bernstein Award 2011 of the German Ministry for Science and Education

Humboldt-Award 2008 of the Humboldt-University Berlin for Outstanding PhD Thesis

Reviewer for international journals such as Science, PLoS Computational Biology

Reviewer for collaborative international funding scheme CRCNS (NSF, BMBF, ANR, BSF & NIH)

6.     Five most important publications

Vogels TP*, Sprekeler H*, Zenke F, Clopath C, Gerstner W (2011). Inhibitory plasticity balances excitation and inhibition in sensory pathways and memory networks. Science, 334:1569-1573.

Frémaux N*, Sprekeler, H*, Gerstner W (2010). Functional requirements for reward-modulated spike-timing-dependent plasticity. J Neurosci 30(40), 13326-13337

Franzius M*, Sprekeler H*, Wiskott L (2007). Slowness and sparseness lead to place, head-direction and spatial-view cells. PLoS Comp Biol 3 (8), e166

Sprekeler H, Michaelis C, Wiskott L (2007). Slowness: An Objective for spike timing-dependent plasticity? PLoS Comp Biol 3 (6), e112

Frémaux N, Sprekeler H, Gerstner W (2013). Reinforcement learning using a continuous time actor-critic framework with spiking neurons. PLoS Comput Biol 9 (4), e1003024

* shared first authorship