Prof. Dr. Christoph von der Malsburg, born May 8th 1942, in Kassel, has studied physics in Göttingen, Munich and Heidelberg, and obtained a PhD there with work on elementary particle physics done at CERN, Geneva. After a longer period at the Division of Neurobiology of the Max-Planck-Inst. for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen he became Professor of Computer Science and Neuroscience at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and, sharing his time, of Systems Biophysics at the Institute for Neural Computing of Ruhr-University, Bochum. His focus is organization and function of the brain. He proposes self-organized neural nets as neural code for the interpretation of mental processes.

At FIAS

2007 - today Senior Fellow

Further organisations

1990 - 2007 Co-founder and temporary director of the Institute of Neuroinformatics, Ruhr-Uni Bochum

Co-founder of ZN Vision Technology AG in Bochum and Eyematic, Inc. in Los Angeles

Awards and distinctions

• Pioneer Award 1994 of the Neural Network Council of the IEEE
• President of the European Neural Network Society (1995-1996)
• Karl Heinz Beckurt's Foundation Award (1998)
• Koerber Award for European Science (2000)
• Hebb Award 2003 of the International Neural Network Society
• Fellow of the International Neural Network Society (since Oct 2015)
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Human Brain Project (since Aug 2017)