We are proud to welcome our new members from the Department of Neurology, Institute of Veterinary Physiology, Brain Research Institute, Institute of Neuroinformatics and the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy.
New ZNZ research group leaders:
Dr. Esther Werth
Department of Neurology, USZ
Dr. Werth studies sleep-wake alterations occurring in neurological disorders to better understand the regulation and function of sleep. More
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Prof. Thomas Lutz
Institute of Veterinary Physiology, UZH
The research of Prof. Lutz focusses on the central nervous system control of food intake and the pathophysiology of obesity. More
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Prof. Theofanis Karayannis
Brain Research Institute, UZH
Prof. Karayannis is interested in the mechanisms by which neural circuits are built at the interface between genetic programs and environmental factors during the development of the brain. More
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Prof. Benjamin Grewe
Institute of Neuroinformatics, UZH & ETH
Prof. Grewe’s long-term vision is to extract fundamental principles of learning from biological neural networks and then to reverse-engineer their functionality as logical algorithms. More
See also an interview with Prof. Grewe about his research in this issue of the ZNZ News.
Prof. Monique Pfaltz
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, USZ
Prof. Pfaltz investigates emotion regulation and recognition in patients and healthy persons. She is also interested in the identification of psychobiological markers for anxiety disorders. More
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Konrad P. Weber, MD
Departments of Neurology & Ophthalmology, USZ
Dr. Weber’s research focuses on the analysis of eye movements in patients with ocular motor and vestibular disorders. He had been a ZNZ junior research group leader since April 2014. More
New ZNZ junior group leader:
Dr. Giovanni Bertolini
Department of Neurology, USZ
Dr. Bertolini explores the mechanisms of self-motion perception in moving environments with the aim to develop novel non-invasive methods to reduce motion sickness and related syndromes. More