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Name: Prof. Dr. Alexander Thiele
Institute of Neuroscience Newcastle University Henry Wellcome Building Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH Tel: 0191-2227564 e-mail: alex.thiele@ncl.ac.uk
Education:
Gymnasium Grossburgwedel, Abitur 1982
Stage Design Apprentice, Niedersaechsisches Staatstheater Hannover, 1983-1984
Faculty of Stage Design, Hochschule der bildenden Kuenste, Wien (Austria), 1984-1985
Faculty of Biology, Ruhr-University-Bochum, 1985-1990 PhD Student in Neurobiology, Ruhr-University-Bochum, 1991-1995
Professional Record :
Stage Design Associate, Niedersaechsisches Staatstheater Hannover, 1985 Studentische Hilfskraft, Ruhr-University-Bochum, 1988-1990 Junior Research Associate, Dept. Zoology and Neurobiology, Ruhr-University-Bochum, 1991-1995 Research Associate, Dept. Zoology and Neurobiology, Ruhr-University-Bochum, 1995-1997 Senior Research Associate, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, 1997-2000 Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne 2000-2002 Reader for fMRI and Vision Sciences, University of Newcastle upon Tyne from December 2002-Juli2004 Professor for Visual Neuroscience, University of Newcastle upon Tyne from August 2004 onwards.
Joint Head of School of Biology/Psychology (2003-2004) Deputy Head of School of Biology/Psychology (2004-current) Director of Research, School of Biology/Psychology (2004-current)
Awards/Grants
Masters Thesis Award of the Department of Biology, Ruhr-University Bochum, 1991 Member of the Forschergruppe ‘Neurovision’ Bochum 1990-1993, Member of the SFB ‘Neurovision’ Bochum 1993-1997 Human Frontier Science Program, Long Term-Fellowship Award 1997 Joint Research Equipment Infrastructure Grant 2001 (Medical Research Council) £ 100,000 University of Waikato, New Zealand, Travel Grant 2003, £ 3,000 Royal Society Small Grant Scheme 2003-2004, £ 8,137 Wellcome Trust Project Grant 2003-2007 (Neuropharmacology of visual attention) £ 567,430 BBSRC (start date 01.11.2004-2007) (The influence of attention on spatial integration in the cortex, and its mediation by acetylcholine), £ 403,959 (together with Prof. P. Dayan) VW-Lichtenberg Professorship (2005) 999.100 Euros + own salary for at least 5 years (reward declined) Wellcome Trust (2007-2009) Mechanisms of bottom-up and top-down attention (requested volume £ 753,340)
Selected Publications
- Thiele A., Dobkins K.R., Albright T.D. (2000) The neural basis of contrast detection at threshold: Neurophysiological evidence from macaque area MT. Neuron, 26:715-724
- Perrone J.A., Thiele A. (2001) Speed skills: measuring the visual speed analyzing properties of primate MT neurons. Nat Neurosci. May;4(5):526-32.
- Thiele A., Dobkins K.R., Albright T.D (2001) Neural correlates of chromatic motion perception. Neuron. Oct 25;32(2):351-8.
- Thiele A, Henning P, Kubischik M, Hoffmann KP. (2002) Neural mechanisms of saccadic suppression. Science 295:2460-2.
- Thiele A, Stoner G. (2003) Neuronal synchrony does not correlate with motion coherence in cortical area MT. Nature. 23;421(6921):366-70.
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