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Gregor Rainer holds an MSc degree in Experimental Physics from the University of Vienna (1994) and a Ph.D. in Systems Neuroscience from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1999). He is currently an associate professor at the University of Fribourg and an adjunct professor at EPFL. His research interests center on the study of cognitive functions in the tree shrew primate visual system, with a particular focus on short-term memory, attention, and visual learning, as well as the impact of neuromodulation processes. Together with his team, he employs a number of techniques to study the neural basis of cognitive functions, including multi-channel neuron recording, optical methods, time-resolved in vivo direct-sampling based neurochemical neuropeptide analyses, and biomedical imaging. Throughout his career, he has received several prestigious awards including the EURYI Young Investigator Award from the European Science Foundation, the APART scholarship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Heisenberg Investigator Award from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and the Otto Hahn Medal from the Max Planck Society for outstanding teaching in Tübingen's Neurosciences Graduate School.
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