Short CV
1993-1998 | Diploma @ University of Göttingen (Physics) |
1998-2003 | Dr. rer. Nat. @ Bremen University (Computational Neuroscience) |
2003-2005 | Post Doc @ Redwood Neuroscience Institute / Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, UC Berkeley (Computational Neuroscience) |
2005-2006 | Senior Post Doc @ MPI for Biological Cybernetics (Computational Neuroscience) |
2007-2009 | Independent Group Leader @ MPI for Biological Cybernetics (Computational Neuroscience) |
2009-present | Professor @ University of Tuebingen (Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience – CIN) |
- Natural Image Statistics
- Neural Population Coding
- Perceptual Inference
Further Activities
- Coordinator of the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Tuebingen
- Coordinator of the Graduate School for Neural Information Processing (together with Prof. Giese)
- Member of the “Young Elite” advisory board for the economic magazine ‘Capital’.
- Member of the project committee of the Bernstein National Network for Computational Neuroscience.
- Neurowissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (NWG)
- Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG)
Matthias Bethge |
Key Publications
- Hosseini, R., F. H. Sinz and M. Bethge (2010)
Lower bounds on the redundancy of natural images.
Vision Research 50(22), 2213-2222 (2010). - Ecker AS, Berens P, Keliris G, Bethge M, Logothetis NK, Tolias AS (2010)
Deccorelated Firing in Cortical Microcircuits.
Science 327 (5965): 584-7. (2010). - Macke, J. H., S. Gerwinn, L. W. White, M. Kaschube and M. Bethge (2010)
Gaussian process methods for estimating cortical maps.
NeuroImage Epub ahead, 1-12 (2010). - Gerwinn, S., J. H. Macke and M. Bethge (2009)
Bayesian population decoding of spiking neurons.
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 3(21), 1-28 (2009). - Sinz, F. H., S. Gerwinn and M. Bethge (2009)
Characterization of the p-generalized Normal Distribution.
Journal of Multivariate Analysis 100(5), 817-820 (2009). - Eichhorn, J., F. H. Sinz and M. Bethge (2009)
Natural Image Coding in V1: How Much Use is Orientation Selectivity?
PLoS Computational Biology 5(4:e1000336), 1-16 (2009). - Macke JH, Berens P, Ecker AS, Tolias AS, Bethge M (2009)
Generating Spike Trains with Specified Correlation Coefficients.
Neural Computation 21(2), 397-423. (2009). - Bethge, M. (2006)
Factorial coding of natural images: how effective are linear models in removing higher-order dependencies?
Journal of the Optical Society of America A 23(6), 1253-1268 (2006). - Silberberg, G., M. Bethge, H. Markram, K. Pawelzik and M. Tsodyks
Dynamics of Population Rate Codes in Ensembles of Neocortical Neurons.
Journal of Neurophysiology 91(2), 704-709 (02 2004). - Bethge, M., D. Rotermund and K. Pawelzik
Optimal Short-Term Population Coding: When Fisher Information Fails.
Neural Computation 14(10), 2317-2351 (10 2002).
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