Our research is largely supported by extramural funds. We also engage in fund raising for teaching and training activities. A comprehensive list of past and present funding sources is provided below.
Present extramural funding:
iBehave
Algorithms of Adaptive Behavior and their Neuronal Implementation in Health and Disease
Funding period: 08/2022 – 07/2026
http://ibehave.nrw/
DrosoExpect
Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS) program jointly through the National Science Foundation (USA), the Department of Energy (USA), the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France) and the Federal Ministry of Research (Germany)
Funding period: 01/2023 – 12/2025
DFG-CRC 1451
Collaborative Research Center: Motor Control in Health and Disease
https://www.crc1451.uni-koeln.de/
DFG-SPP 2205
Priority Program: Evolutionary Optimisation of Neuronal Processing
https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/618311.html
DFG-FOR 2705
Research Unit Dissection of a Brain Circuit: Structure, Plasticity and Behavioral Function of the Drosophila Mushroom Body
https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/601524.html
Past extramural funding:
DFG-GRK 1960
Research Training Group Neural Circuit Analysis
https://rtg-nca.uni-koeln.de
DFG-ZUK
Institutional Strategy: Building a computational model to analyze temperature dependent information processing in the mammalian energy homeostatic system.
Funded under the Institutional Strategy of the University of Cologne within the German Excellence Initiative
Funding period: 01/2021 – 12/2022
https://portal.uni-koeln.de/forschung/interne-forschungsfoerderung-und-auszeichnungen/excellent-research-support-program/ersp/uoc-forum
SmartStart Training Program in Computational Neuroscience
https://www.smartstart-compneuro.de
DFG- ZUK 81/1
From structure to function: sensory processing and decision making in full-scale cortical network models
Funded under the Institutional Strategy of the University of Cologne within the German Excellence Initiative
Funding period: 11/2017 – 10/2019
https://www.portal.uni-koeln.de/13905.html
Multiple time scales of signals and noise in the motor hierarchy
Funded by the German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF)
Funding period: 01/2014 – 08/2017
GRK 1589
Research Training Group Sensory Computation in Neural Systems
Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG – GRK 1589)
1st Funding period: 01/2010 – 06/2014
2nd Funding period: 09/2014 – 09/2017
https://www.bccn-berlin.de/phd-program-computational-neuroscience.html
Bernstein Focus Learning and Memory (BFNL): Insect inspired robots – the role of learning and memory in decision making
Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Funding period: 10/2009 – 09/2015
https://www.bernstein-network.de/en/the-network/Network-Partners/BFNL/robots
Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin (BCCN Berlin): Neuromodulation in motor systems (A9)
Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Funding period: 07/2010 – 06/2015
https://www.bccn-berlin.de/
Sonderforschungsbereich ‘Theoretische Biologie’ (SFB 618)
M. Nawrot PI in project B6: In a few computational steps from sensory representation to feature extraction and object recognition, collaboration with M. Hennig, HU Berlin
Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
Funding period: 07/2009 – 06/2013
https://www.biologie.hu–berlin.de/forschung/SFB_618/
DFG Priority Programme ‘Integrative Analysis of Olfaction’ (SPP 1392)
M. Schmuker PI in projects:
– Testing olfactory bulb chemotopy and deorphanizing olfactory receptors by combining in vivo functional imaging and virtual screening &
– Predicting odor response maps and inhibitory interactions between glomeruli for the dorsal olfactory bulb, in collaboration with H Spors, MPI for Biophysics, Frankfurt/Main
Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
First funding period: 06/2009 – 05/2012
Second funding period: 11/2012 -10/2015
1st international workshop on ‘Odor Space’
coordinated by Michael Schmuker
Funded by Volkswagen Foundation
Date: 04/09 – 07/09/2013
Strategic partnership Freie Universität Berlin-Hebrew University Jersualem
Travel grant for development of strategic partnership with the Dept. of Medical Biology, Hadassah Medical School, Hebrew Univeristiy Jerusalem, in cooperation with Y. Prut (Hebrew University Jerusalem)
Funded within the Excellence Plan International Network University
Funding period: 02/2010 – 08/2012
Innovationsfonds 2009: Modeling information processing in the olfactory system
Funded by the Freie Universität Berlin (Innovation Fonds for Excellence)
Funding period: 03/2010 – 07/2010
Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Freiburg (BCCN Freiburg)
M. Nawrot PI in project B2, B4, C5
Funding period: 01/2005 – 12/2009
Follow-up grant Young Investigators Group, Wissenschaftliche Nachwuchsförderung des Landes Baden-Württemberg (WIN), Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften
Neuronale Kodierung von Bewegung bei Affe und Mensch; Von Einzelzellen und Zellenensembles zum Brain-Computer-Interface
PIs: T. Ball, C. Mehring, N. Weiskopf, M. Nawrot
Funding period: 09/2002 – 06/2005
Extended funding period: 07/2005 – 06/2007