Responsibilities
Senior Scientist, Speaker Bernstein Center Munich
Contact
Biology / Neurobiology
Phone:
+49 (0)89 / 2180-74801
Email:
herz@bio.lmu.de
Website:
http://www.neuro.bio.lmu.de/research_groups/res-herz_a/index.html
Further Information
Primary research focus: Theoretical Neuroscience & Technical Applications
Second research focus: Cellular & Systems Neuroscience
Third research focus: Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience
Keywords: spatial navigation, grid cell, population dynamics, information processing, decoding
Brief research description: We use methods from the theory of dynamical systems and probability theory to formulate mathematical models of the dynamics and information processing of single neurons and larger networks, with a current focus on spatial navigation. We analyze and model electrophysiological data provided by local and international collaboration partners and compare them with our theoretical predictions.
Current or graduated GSN PhD students: Dora Csordas, Avleen Sahni, Michaela Pröll, Caroline Fischer, Johannes Nagele, Dinu Patirniche, Dr. Alexander Mathis, Dr. Johannes Nehrkorn, Dr. Ksenia Yashina, Dr. Caroline Fischer, Dr. Johannes Nagele, Dr. Michaela Poth (née Pröll)
GSN MSc/Fast track students: Chris Kymn (research project), Vilim Stih (MsC)
Selected publications:
Stemmler, Martin B. ; Mathis, Alexander; Herz, Andreas V. M. (2015): Connecting multiple spatial scales to decode the population activity of grid cells. In: Science Advances, Vol. 1, Nr. 11, e1500816
Herz, Andreas V. M. ; Gollisch, Tim; Machens, Christian K.; Jaeger, Dieter (2006): Modeling single-neuron dynamics and computations: A balance of detail and abstraction. In: Science, Vol. 314, Nr. 5796: S. 80-85
Machens, Christian K.; Schütze, Hartmut; Franz, Astrid; Kolesnikova, Olga; Stemmler, Martin B. ; Ronacher, Bernhard; Herz, Andreas V. M. (2003): Single auditory neurons rapidly discriminate conspecific communication signals. In: Nature Neuroscience, Vol. 6: S. 342
Herz, Andreas V. M. ; Bonhoeffer, Sebastian; Anderson, R. M.; May, R. M.; Nowak, M. A. (1996): Viral dynamics in vivo: Limitations on estimates of intracellular delay and virus decay. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America : PNAS, Vol. 93, Nr. 14: S. 7247-7251
Hopfield, J. J.; Herz, Andreas V. M. (1995): Rapid local synchronization of action potentials: toward computation with coupled integrate-and-fire neurons. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America : PNAS, Vol. 92, Nr. 15: S. 6655-6662