CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: Constanze Hofstötter Date of birth: 12 April 1975 Nationality: German
Contact address: Institute of Neuroinformatics Winterthurerstrasse 190 CH-8057 Zürich Switzerland
Tel.: +41 1 635 30 65 Fax: +41 1 635 30 53 Email: [email protected] Web: www.ini.unizh.ch/~connie
EDUCATION
Oct. 2002 – present Ph.D. student at the Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH and University of Zurich, Switzerland Supervisors: Daniel C. Kiper and Christof Koch Topic: Neural correlates of visual awareness
Jun. 2001 – Sept. 2002 Ph.D. student at the Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH and University of Zurich, Switzerland Supervisor: Paul F.M.J. Verschure Topic: Models of the neuronal substrate underlying classical conditioning
Oct. 1997 – Feb. 2001 Diploma in Biology (with honors), University of Saarland, Germany Major: Technical Biology and Bionics Minor: Zoology, Computer Science
Sept. 1996 – May 1997 Diploma of Arctic Studies (with honors), Artic Center, University of Lapland, Finland
Oct. 1994 – Sept. 1996 Pre-diploma in Biology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Aug. 1985 – Jun. 1994 High school, Anno-Gymnasium, Siegburg, Germany
Jul. 1991 – Jul. 1992 Student Exchange, Woree High School, Cairns, Australia
INTERNSHIPS AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Spring 2003 Reviewer for Christof Koch’s book “The Quest for Consciousness” (Roberts & Company Publishers)
Mar. 2002 – May 2002 Visiting researcher at the Koch laboratory, Californian Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA Topic: Studies on fear conditioning in human subjects
Apr. 2000 – Sept. 2000 Internship at the Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH and University of Zurich, Switzerland. Topic: Simulations and robotic studies on classical conditioning
1 Jul. 1998 – Jul. 1999 Research assistant for Werner Nachtigall, Zoological Institute, University of Saarland, Germany Topic: Aerodynamic measurements in wind tunnels
Oct. 1998 – Oct. 1999 Student representative of the faculty of biology, University of Saarland, Germany
Sept. 1996 – May 1997 Student representative of the Arctic Studies Program, University of Lapland, Finland
Jun. 1994 – Aug.1994 Internship at molecular biology laboratory, PROMEGA, Madison, USA Topic: Bioluminescent phages to detect bacterial resistances
TEACHING AND LECTURING EXPERIENCE
Oct. 2002 – Mar. 2003 “Consciousness: from philosophy to neuroscience”, Seminar organized together with D. Kiper and A. Gamma University of Zurich, Switzerland
Feb. 1995 – Sept. 1995 Tour guide for the exhibition „The world of whales“, Museum Koenig, Bonn, Germany
May 1992 Public lectures and guided tours on the Great Barrier Reef, Internship at Reef Care, Cairns, Australia
ORGANIZATION OF WORKSHOPS
Sept. 2003 “Neurobiology and Psychophysics of Visual Attention and Awareness”. One-week summer school of the Schweizer Studienstiftung with Christof Koch and Klaus Hebb, Engelberg, Switzerland
Jun. – Jul. 2000 – 2002 Staff for system administration and robotic workshop, Telluride Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop, Colorado, USA
Feb. 2002 “Neural Network and Neuroinformatics”. Planning and organization of 3-day workshop hosted by Paul F.M.J. Verschure, Peter König and Tim Pearce, Zurich, Switzerland
Sept. 2001 “Learning and memory”. One-day assistance with summer school of the Schweizer Studienstiftung held by Peter König and Paul F.M.J. Verschure, Maienfeld, Switzerland
OTHER SKILLS AND INTERESTS
Languages: German (native), English (fluent), French (basic)
Computing: Familiar with Windows, Linux and Macintosh Programming in C, C++, Java, MatLab
Membership: Society for Neuroscience Society for Technical Biology and Bionics German Alpine Club
Hobbies: Mountaineering, volleyball, table soccer, playing the flute
2 PUBLICATIONS
R.M. Carter, C. Hofstötter, N. Tsuchiya, C. Koch (2003). Working memory and fear conditioning. PNAS, Vol. 100, pp. 1399-1404.
C. Hofstötter, M. Mintz and P.F.M.J Verschure (2002). Cerebellum in action: a simulation and robotics study. European Journal of Neuroscience, Vol. 16, pp. 1361-1376.
C. Hofstötter, M. Mintz and P.F.M.J Verschure (2001). Studying classical conditioning with microrobots: An example of synthetic epistemology. In: Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment – AMIRE2001, Ed: U. Rückert, HNI-Paderborn, pp. 243-251.
E. Niebur, M. Ehlilali, I. Obied, J. Werfel, M. Blanchard, M. Frasca, K. Ghose, C. Hofstötter, G. Indiveri, and M.W. Tilden (2001). Research, robots, and reality: a statement on current trends in biorobotics, Behavioral Brain Science, Vol. 24, pp. 1072-1073.
PUBLICATIONS – SUBMITTED OR IN PREPARATION
C. Hofstötter, C. Koch and D.C. Kiper (in preparation). Visual awareness does not contribute to the formation of negative afterimages.
C. Hofstötter, M. Mintz and P.F.M.J. Verschure (submitted to Robotics and Autonomous Systems). A cerebellar model for obstacle avoidance.
ABSTRACTS
C. Hofstötter, C. Koch, D.C. Kiper (2003, submitted). Absence of high-level contribution to the formation of afterimages.33rd Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, USA.
C. Hofstötter, C. Koch, D.C. Kiper (2003, submitted). Absence of high-level contribution to the formation of afterimages. ZNZ symposium, Zurich, Switzerland.
C. Hofstötter, C. Koch, D.C. Kiper (2003). The perceptual contribution to the formation of afterimages. ZNZ PhD retreat, Valens, Switzerland
R.M. Carter, C. Hofstötter, C. Koch (2002). Working memory tasks interfere with more complex conditioning protocols. 32nd Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Orlando, USA
C. Hofstötter, M. Mintz and P.F.M.J. Verschure (2002). A model of the cerebellar circuitry underlying classical conditioning. 2nd Joint symposium on frontiers in computational neuroscience, Asilomar, USA
C. Hofstötter, M. Mintz and P.F.M.J. Verschure (2001). A model of the cerebellar circuitry underlying classical conditioning. 1st Symposium for dynamics and adaptivity of neuronal systems – integrative approaches to analyzing cognitive functions, Bremen, Germany
C. Hofstötter, M. Mintz and P.F.M.J. Verschure (2001). A model of the cerebellar circuitry underlying classical conditioning. ZNZ symposium, Zurich, Switzerland
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