Tatjana Tchumatchenko, Group Leader

Personal data

Nationality: German

Education & Positions

2013 -
Max Planck Research Group Leader at the MPI for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2011 - 2013
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York City, USA
2010 - 2011
Postdoctoral Fellow with a joint appointment at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, the Bernstein Center Göttingen and the Interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Center (SFB 889), Germany
2011
Dr. rer. nat in Physics, Graduate Program “Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience” at the Göttingen Graduate School for Neurosciences, Biophysics, and Molecular Biosciences, Göttingen University, Germany
2003 - 2006
Diplom in Physics, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

Awards & Grants

2018
Three year grant of DFG Computational Connectomics priority program
2018
Selected by the Focus Magazine as one of 25 young innovators who will shape Germany in the next 25 years.
2017
Dollwet Foundation Award
2016
Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Prize of the German Research Foundation
2016
Dollwet Foundation Award
2015
Mentorship Travel Grant for the Computational and Systems Neuroscience conference
2013 - 2015
Behrens-Weise-Foundation Award
2013
Fellowship at the Interdisciplinary Center for Neuroscience, Frankfurt am Main
2012
”AcademiaNet excellence” membership, upon nomination by the Volkswagen Foundation
2011
Computational Sciences fellowship at the Volkswagen Foundation
2009
Best Poster Award, Computational Neuroscience Meeting CNS*2009
2009
Sloan Swartz Travel Grant 2009
2008 - 2010
Five Travel grants competitively awarded by the Göttingen Graduate School
2004 - 2006
Fellowship at the German National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
2001
Award of the Membership in the German Physics Society (DPG) upon high-school graduation for excellent exam results.