Neef, Andreas, Dr.

Group leader - Neurophysics Lab


  • since 2019 Group leader "Neurophysics Lab" at the Campus Institute for Dynamics of biological networks
  • 2013-2019 Group leader "Biophysics of neural computation" at the BCCN Göttingen
  • 2006-2013 Bernstein fellow at the BCCN and BFNT Göttingen
  • 2005-2006 Postdoctoral fellow at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN), Göttingen
  • 2004-2005 Postdoctoral fellow at the research centre Juelich
  • 2004 PhD in Biochemistry (Dr.rer.nat), University Cologne
  • 2001-2004 PhD student at the institute for biological information processing in the research centre Jülich
  • 2000 Visiting scientist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Cambridge, Great Britain
  • 2000 Diploma in Physics, University of Jena, Germany
  • 1997-2000 research and graduate student at the Max-Planck research group "Molecular and Cellular Biophysics", Jena
  • 1994-2000 undergraduate and graduate in Physics, University of Jena, Germany


Major Research Interests

  • Ion channel biophysics
  • Single molecule diffusion
  • Non-invasive brain stimulation
  • Neural encoding