Jan Born
Jan Born (born March 30, 1958 in Celle ) is a German neuroscientist and sleep and memory researcher.
Life
Jan Born studied psychology at the University of Tübingen , where he obtained his doctorate in 1985. The habilitation in physiology followed in 1989 at the University of Ulm . From 1989 to 1998 Born was Professor of Physiological Psychology at the Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg and since 1999 Professor of Neuroendocrinology at the University of Lübeck , where he headed the Institute for Neuroendocrinology from 2002. In 2010 he became Niels Birbaumer's successor to the Chair of Medical Psychology in Tübingen.
research
Born researches and publishes in the field of memory formation during sleep. Among other things, he showed that memory is formed in deep sleep and not - as was assumed for a long time - in REM sleep . In 2010 he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize for his pioneering work . He has been a member of the Leopoldina since 2009 . For 2017 he was awarded the Oswald Külpe Prize .
Web links
- “Without sleep, our brain would burst” , Interview in ZEIT Online from October 26, 2010
- “Learning overnight” , interview in ZEIT Online from March 29, 2010
- "How to use sleep in a targeted manner" , interview in Spiegel Online from May 8, 2010
- Uni Tübingen newsletter with video podcast
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.dfg.de/download/pdf/gefoerderte_projekte/preistraeger/gwl-preis/2010/born_cv.pdf
- ↑ http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/aktuelles/newsletter-uni-tuebingen-aktuell/2011/3/folk/3.html
- ^ B. Rasch, C. Büchel, S. Gais, J. Born: Odor cues during slow-wave sleep prompt declarative memory consolidation. In: Science. Volume 315, Number 5817, March 2007, pp. 1426-1429, ISSN 1095-9203 . doi: 10.1126 / science.1138581 . PMID 17347444 .
- ↑ L. Marshall, H. Helgadóttir, M. Mölle, J. Born: Boosting slow oscillations during sleep potentiates memory. In: Nature. Volume 444, Number 7119, November 2006, pp. 610-613, ISSN 1476-4687 . doi: 10.1038 / nature05278 . PMID 17086200 .
- ↑ http://www.dfg.de/gefoerderte_projekte/wissenschaftliche_preise/leibniz-preis/2010/born/index.html
- ↑ Member entry of Jan Born (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 1, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Born, Jan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German neuroscientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Celle |