Rainer Goebel

Rainer Goebel at TEDxAmsterdam , 2014

Rainer Goebel (born January 17, 1964 in Fulda ) is a German psychologist . At Maastricht University he teaches as a professor for cognitive neuroscience and researches artificial neural networks for image processing.

Rainer Goebel studied psychology and computer science at the University of Marburg from 1983 to 1988 . In 1990 he started his doctoral thesis at the Technical University of Braunschweig with Dirk Vorberg . He developed an oscillatory neural network model for scene segmentation, selective attention and contour recognition and received his doctorate in 1994. From 1995 to 1999 he worked as a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt am Main in the Department of Neurophysiology under Wolf Singer , where he founded his own working group. 1997/1998 Goebel was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin .

Since January 2000 he has been a full professor in the Psychology Faculty of Maastricht University. Goebel is a member of the board of directors of the FC Donders Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging in Nijmegen . In 2017 Rainer Goebel was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Prizes and awards

• 1993: Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize for a publication on the attachment problem
• 1994: Heinz Billing Prize from the Max Planck Society for software for simulating neural network models.
• 2003: Award of the Alzheimer Research Initiative
• Funding from the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) for the project "In Vivo Visualization of Axonal Connectivity and Functional Activity Using Diffusion Tensor MRI".

Web links

• Member entry by Rainer Goebel (with picture and curriculum vitae) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
• Homepage at Maastricht University
• "Brainvoyager" project

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cognitive training in Alzheimer's patients assessed with fMRI, H-MRS and DTI. Retrieved May 17, 2018 .