Grants
Projects and Fellowships
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
"Understanding Gaze in Incidental Encounters" as part of the priority programme UGAZE
(01/2026-12/2028)
VolkswagenStiftung (Framework "Pioneer Projects – Impetus for the German Research System")
Project "Ethiktool - A software solution to support the ethical assessment of research projects"
(since 04/2023: with Alexandra Bendixen, TU Chemnitz (coordinator) and Katarina Blask, Leibniz Institute for Psychology / ZPID)
German Research Foundation (DFG)
Project B5 in the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) "Cardinal Mechanisms of Perception" (funding phase III)
(01/2022-12/2025, with Jutta Billino)
German Research Foundation (DFG)
Project C01 in the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) "Hybrid Societies" (funding phase I)
(01/2020-12/2023)
German Research Foundation (DFG)
Projects B1 and B4 in the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) "Cardinal Mechanisms of Perception" (funding phase II)
(01/2018-12/2021, with Bianca Wittmann (B1) and Harald Lachnit (B4))
German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development
Objective Measurements of Perception and Attention
(01/2018-12/2020, with Yaffa Yeshurun)
German Research Foundation (DFG)
Multistabile Wahrnehmung im Modalitätsvergleich: Auflösung sensorischer Ambiguitäten beim Sehen und Hören [Multistable perception across modalities: Resolution of sensory ambiguities in vision and audition]
(since 10/2017, with Alexandra Bendixen)
German Research Foundation (DFG)
Projects B1 und B4 in the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) "Cardinal Mechanisms of Perception" (funding phase I)
(04/2014-03/2016, with Bianca Wittmann (B1) and Harald Lachnit (B4))
German Research Foundation (DFG)
Member of the International Research Training Group "The brain in action"
(10/2013-03/2015)
German Research Foundation (DFG) and Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
Common neural substrates for uncertainty processing in decision-making and perception
(2011-2015, with Kerstin Preuschoff)
German Research Foundation (DFG)
Die Rolle von Bildmerkmalen für die Interaktion von Aufmerksamkeit und Objekterkennung unter natürlichen Bedingungen
(03/2010-02/2014)
BaCaTec
Bildstatistik von Blickzielen beim Menschen bei natürlicher Exploration (with E. Schneider, LMU, 07/2006-06/2007)
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
Dissociation "Top-down" from "Bottom-up" signals in human visual attention.
(Fellowship for advanced researchers, 04/2006-12/2006)
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
"Top-down" and "Bottom-up" control of human overt attention under natural conditions.
(Fellowship for prospective researchers, 04/2005-03/2006)
Honda RI Europe
Learning relevant representations in the hierarchy of the visual system
(09/2001-08/2004)
Workshops and Research Groups
Center for Interdisiciplinary Research (ZIF) Bielefeld
Competition and Priority Control in Mind and Brain: New Perspectives from Task-Driven Vision
(ZIF research group, 10/2012-07/2013, with W.X. Schneider)
German Research Foundation (DFG)
Neural Coding, Decision-Making & Integration in Time
(workshop, 04/2012, with J. Trommershäuser & K.P. Körding)