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Curriculum Vitae - Prof. Dr. Frank Bremmer

Born: 1964

Education /Training:
1983 A-levels, Bad Wildungen
1989 Diploma in physics, minor in physiology, Philipps-Universität Marburg
1989 - 1990 Community service, Bremen
1994 Doctorate, Dr. rer. nat., Ruhr-Universität Bochum
2000 Habilitation, venia legendi in Neurobiology, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Professional development
1994 - 1996 PostDoc, CNRS - Collège de France, Paris, Frankreich
1996 - 2001 Research assistant, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
2001 - 2008 Professor (C3), Applied physics and neurophysics, Physics department, Philipps-Universität Marburg
2008 - current Professor (W3), Applied physics and neurophysics, Physics department, Philipps-Universität Marburg

Other activities
2004 - 2010 Speaker, DFG-Graduate Program-885-NeuroAct
2005 - 2010 Deputy speaker, DFG-Research Group-560 Perception and action
2008 - 2010 Director, Graduate center Life- and natural sciences, Philipps-Universität Marburg
2009 - 2010 Vice Dean (Prodekan), Physics department, Philipps-Universität Marburg
2010 - 2013 Vice president for research, advancement of young academics, knowledge transfer and international affairs, Philipps-Universität Marburg
2010 - heute Editorial Board, Vision Research
2011 - 2014 Member, Steering Committee, Council for Doctoral Education (CDE), European University Association (EUA)
2011 - 2014 Member, EU-Research commission, HRK
2012 - 2016 Board member, University consortium for the qualification of young academics in germany, UniWiND
2013 - current Speaker, DFG-International Research Training Group-1901-The Brain in Action
2014 - current Board Member, DFG-SFB-135-Cardinal mechanisms of perception

10 selected publications

  1. Bremmer, F., Churan, J., & Lappe, M. (2017) Heading representations in primates are compressed by saccades. Nature Communications, 8(1), 920

  2. Morris, A. P., Kubischik, M., Hoffmann, K.-P., Krekelberg, B., & Bremmer, F. (2012) Dynamics of eye-position signals in the dorsal visual system. Current Biology, 22(3), 173-179.

  3. Klauke, S., Goertz, M., Rein, S., Hoehl, D., Thomas, U., Eckhorn, R., Bremmer, F.,Wachtler, T. (2011) Stimulation with a wireless intraocular epiretinal implant elicits visual percepts inblind humans. Investigative ophthalmology & visual science, 52(1), 449-455.

  4. Bremmer, F., Kubischik, M., Hoffmann, K.-P., & Krekelberg, B. (2009) Neural dynamics of saccadic suppression. The Journal of Neuroscience, 29(40), 12374-12383.

  5. Schlack, A., Sterbing-D'Angelo, S. J., Hartung, K., Hoffmann, K.-P., & Bremmer, F. (2005) Multisensory space representations in the macaque ventral intraparietal area. The Journal of Neuroscience, 25(18), 4616-4625.

  6. Krekelberg, B., Dannenberg, S., Hoffmann, K.-P., Bremmer, F., & Ross, J. (2003) Neural correlates of implied motion. Nature, 424(6949), 674-677.

  7. Krekelberg, B., Kubischik, M., Hoffmann, K.-P., & Bremmer, F. (2003) Neural correlates of visual localization and perisaccadic mislocalization. Neuron, 37(3), 537-545.

  8. Bremmer, F., Krekelberg, B. (2003) Seeing and acting at the same time: Challenges for brain (and) research. Neuron, 38, 367–370

  9. Bremmer, F., Schlack, A., Shah, N. J., Zafiris, O., Kubischik, M., Hoffmann, K.-P., . . . Fink, G. R. (2001) Polymodal motion processing in posterior parietal and premotor cortex: a human fMRI study strongly implies equivalencies between humans and monkeys. Neuron, 29(1), 287-296.

  10. Duhamel, J.-R., Bremmer, F., BenHamed, S., & Graf, W. (1997) Spatial invariance of visual receptive fields in parietal cortex neurons. Nature, 389(6653), 845-848.