Prof. Dr. Andreas K. Engel
- Birth: 1961, Villingen, Germany
- Citizenship: German
- Marital Status: married, one child
Education
- Abitur, Hindenburggymnasium, Trier, 1971-1979
- Medicine, Basic Sciences, Saarland University, Homburg, 1979-1982
- Medical School, Technical University Munich, 1982-1986
- MD, Technical University Munich, 1986
- Doctoral thesis, Max-Planck-Institute for Psychiatry, Munich, 1983-1987
- Doctorate (Dr. med.), Technical University Munich, 1987
- Philosophy, Frankfurt University, 1987-1990
- Habilitation in Medical Physiology, Frankfurt University Medical School, 1995
- Specialization in Medical Physiology (Facharzt), Ärztekammer Nordrhein, Düsseldorf, 2002
Research Experience
- Doctoral student, Neuropathology and Neurobiology, Dept. of Neuromorphology, Max-Planck-Institute for Psychiatry, Munich, 1983-1987
- Post-Doctoral Fellow, Neurobiology, Dept. of Neurophysiology, Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, 1987-1995
- Heisenberg-Fellow and head of research group, Dept. of Neurophysiology, Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, 1996-2000
- Daimler-Benz Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study Berlin, Fall 1997-Summer 1998
- Head of Cellular Neurobiology Group (tenured position), Research Center Juelich, 2000-2002
- Director of Dept. of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, since 2002
- Coordinator of the Collaborative Research Centre SFB 936 „Multi-Site Communication in the Brain“ (with C. Gerloff, Dept. of Neurology, UKE), 2011-2023
- Coordinating Board Member of Collaborative Research Centre SFB TRR 169 „Cross-Modal Learning: Adaptivity, Prediction and Interaction“, 2016-2024
- Scientific Director, Center for Experimental Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, since 2022
Teaching Experience
- Lecturer (Privatdozent) in Physiology, Frankfurt University Medical School, 1995-2002
- Full Professor of Physiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, since 2002
- Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Dept. of Psychology, Hamburg University, since 2004
- Member of steering committee and coordination of several working groups, Integrated Curriculum „iMED", University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, since 2010
- Coordinator of the Hamburg Brain School (HBS), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, since 2021
Research Interests
- Information processing in the visual, auditory and tactile system
- Role of synchronization and oscillations for binding processes
- Role of dynamic neural coupling for crossmodal and sensorimotor integration
- Neural mechanisms of attention, emotion, decision making, consciousness
- Dynamics of large-scale cortical and cortico-subcortical networks
- Changes of large-scale neural coupling in neurological and psychiatric disorders
- Social cognition and interpersonal coupling
- Theories of perception and action
- Role of action in cognitive processing
- Bioinspired robot architectures
- Brain-computer interfaces
Service to the Scientific Community
- Reviewer for International Scientific Journals (e.g. Science, Nature, Nat Rev Neurosci, Trends Neurosci, Trends Cogn Sci, J Neurosci, Neuroimage, Eur J Neurosci, J Neurophysiol, Exp Brain Res, J Cogn Neurosci, Conscious Cogn, Phil Trans Roy Soc B, Brain Topogr)
- Reviewer for National and International Research Funding Organizations (e.g. German Research Foundation, BMBF, German National Academic Foundation, Wellcome Trust, Humboldt Foundation)
- Co-Organization of conferences, including meetings of the German Cognitive Science Society (1999, 2001) and of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (2014)
- Organization of workshops at Scientific Meetings (e.g. FENS, German Neuroscience Society)
- Organization of national and international summer schools (e.g. German National Academic Foundation, EU-Networks Neuro-IT and euCognition, projects eSMCs and socSMCs)
- Academic Mentor (Vertrauensdozent) for scholars of the German National Academic Foundation (2003-2009)
- Academic Mentor in the Mentoring Programme for Excellent Students, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (since 2009)
- Member of the Cognitive Neuroscience Review Board (Fachkollegium) of the DFG (2016-2023)
Editorial Board Memberships
- Associate Editor of „Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience“, since 2009
- Associate Editor of „Frontiers in Consciousness Research“, since 2009
- Associate Editor of „Network Neuroscience“,
- Advisory Editorial Board member of „Trends in Cognitive Sciences“, since 1998
- Advisory Editorial Board member of „Consciousness and Cognition“, since 2001
- Advisory Editorial Board member of „Experimental Brain Research“, since 2006
- Editorial Board member of "Brain Topography“, 2013-2023
Affiliations
- Member of the Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe), since 2023
- President of German Society for Clinical Neurophysiology and Functional Neuroimaging (DGKN), 2022-2023
- Executive Board Member of the German Society for Clinical Neurophysiology (DGKN), 2020-2024
- Executive Board member of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg, since 2019
- Member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg (Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg), since 2008
- Member of the Society for Neuroscience (USA), since 1988
- Member of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS), since 1990
- Member of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC), since 2001
- President of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC), 2013
- Member of the German Neuroscience Society, since 1990
- Executive Board member of the German Neuroscience Society, 2009-2014
- Executive Board member of EU Network of Excellence „Neuro-IT“, 2002-2007
- Executive Board member of EU Coordinated Action Network „euCognition“, 2006-2008
- Executive Board member of EU Coordinated Action Network „euCogII“, 2009-2011
- Executive Board member of EU Coordinated Action Network „euCogIII“, 2012-2014
- Executive Board Member of the Hamburg Center of NeuroScience (HCNS)
- Coordinator of the EU-funded research consortium „AMOUSE“, 2001-2006
- Coordinator of the EU-funded research consortium „eSMCs“, 2011-2014
- Coordinator of the EU-funded research consortium „socSMCs“, 2015-2019
- Coordinator of the EU-funded Innovative Training Network „euSNN“, 2019-2023
- Coordinator of the Collaborative Research Centre SFB 936 (with C. Gerloff, Dept. of Neurology, UKE), 2011-2023
- Coordinating Board member of Collaborative Research Centre SFB TRR 169, 2016-2024
Honors and Awards
- Undergraduate fellowship of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) 1980-1983 and 1985-1986
- Doctoral fellowship of the German National Academic Foundation 1983-1985
- Award of a five-year Heisenberg-Fellowship, German Research Foundation (DFG), 1995-2000
- Award of a one-year Daimler-Benz Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin, 1997-1998
- Offer for the Chair of Physiology at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria, 2006 (declined)
- Elected as member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg, 2008
- Award of an ERC Advanced Grant (together with P. König, Osnabrück), 2011-2016
- Award of a second ERC Advanced Grant, 2023-2028