Jacob Engelmann

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Jacob Engelmann is a German zoologist .

Engelmann studied biology at the University of Bonn , where he received his doctorate in 2002 ( influence of running water on the mechanosensory sideline of the goldfish, Carassius auratus, and the rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss ). As a post-doctoral student , he was a Marie Curie fellow at the CNRS in Gifes-sur-Yvette in the Neuroscience, Information and Complexity unit. From 2005 he was at the Institute for Zoology in Bonn, where he received a junior professorship at the CITEC Excellence Cluster in 2010. There he led the project Active Near Field Perception with Elisabetta Chicca: From Biology to Bionic Hardware . Since 2016 he has been Professor of Active Sensing in Bielefeld.

He is concerned with the sensory perception of electric fish, especially elephant-trunk fish from West Africa. These orient themselves with actively generated electrical signals. The research also serves bionic purposes (navigation of robots with appropriate electrical sensors).

In 2019/20 he is President of the German Zoological Society

Fonts (selection)

  • with W. Hanke, J. Mogdans, H. Bleckmann: Hydrodynamic stimuli and the fish lateral line. In: Nature , Volume 408, 2000, pp. 51-52
  • with W. Hanke, H. Bleckmann: Lateral line reception in still-and running water. In: Journal of Comparative Physiology A , Volume 188, 2002, pp. 513-526
  • with J. Goulet a. a .: Object localization through the lateral line system of fish: theory and experiment. In: Journal of Comparative Physiology A , Volume 194, 2008, pp. 1-17
  • with J. Bacelo a. a .: Electric imaging through active electrolocation: implication for the analysis of complex scenes. In: Biological Cybernetics , Volume 98, 2008, pp. 519-539
  • with PGD Feulner, M. Plath, F. Kirschbaum, R. Tiedemann: Electrifying love: electric fish use species-specific discharge for mate recognition. In: Biology Letters , Volume 5, 2009, pp. 225-228
  • with G. Van der Emde a. a .: 3-Dimensional scene perception during active electrolocation in a weakly electric pulse fish. In: Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience , Volume 4, 2010, p. 26
  • with M. Kreysing u. a .: Photonic crystal light collectors in fish retina improve vision in turbid water. In: Science , Volume 336, 2012, pp. 1700-1703

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SURNAME Engelmann, Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century