Dr. Michael Herrmann
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Michael Herrmann will be joining the School as a Lecturer, in September this year.J. Michael Herrmann received a Diploma in Mathematics
in 1988 and, in 1993, a doctoral degree in Computer
Science, both from Leipzig University.
He has held post-doctoral positions
at NORDITA, Copenhagen, and at RIKEN’s Laboratory for
Information Representation in Japan. From 1996 to 2001,
he was with the Max-Planck Institute for Fluid Dynamics
at Goettingen, Germany. In 2002 he became an assistant
professor at Goettingen University. Dr. Herrmann is currently an
associated researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for
Dynamics and Self-Organization and a principal
investigator at the Goettingen Bernstein Center for
Computational Neuroscience.His research is focused on
learning theory in autonomous agents and behavioral
neuroscience, machine learning, and dynamics of neural systems.