Dr. Uta Noppeney

Biography

Uta Noppeney studied medicine and philosophy at the University of Freiburg in Germany, University College London in the UK, and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA. Noppeney received her medical degree in 1997 and her doctorate in medicine in 1998 from Freiburg University. She completed her PhD in neuroscience in 2004 at University College London. Noppeney trained in neurology at the University Hospital Aachen and conducted neuroscience research at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London. In 2005, she became a research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany. In 2011, she was appointed Professor of Computational Neuroscience and became the director of the Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Robotics Centre at the University of Birmingham. Since 2019, she has been a Principal Investigator at the Donders Centres for Cognitive Neuroimaging and Neuroscience, focusing on Systems Neuroscience and Biophysics. Noppeney's research themes include multisensory integration and its implications for decision-making, perceptual inference, and learning, employing behavioral studies, computational modeling, and neuroimaging techniques.

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