Prof. Dr. rer. nat.
Susanne Schreiber
Humboldt University of Berlin
Focus of the commitment in the German Ethics Council
- Neurosciences
- Chances and risks of artificial intelligence
- Patient wellbeing-oriented data use in medical research
- Mathematical modelling in the life sciences
Professional background
- Since 2015 Professor for Theoretical Neurophysiology at the Humboldt University of Berlin
- 2009–2014 Head of Research Group and since 2010 Junior Professor for Computational Neurophysiology at the Humboldt University of Berlin
- 2004–2008 Research Assistant at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
- 2004 Doctorate in Theoretical Biophysics
- 2001–2002 Sloan-Swartz Fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla (USA)
- 1999–2000 Research stay at the University of Cambridge (UK)
- 1995–2000 Study of Biophysics at the Humboldt University of Berlin
Memberships
- Since 2020 Vice-Chair of the German Ethics Council
- Chairperson of the Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience
- Scholar in the FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence
- Member of the steering committee of the Bernstein Center Berlin
- Member of the Academic Senate of the Humboldt University of Berlin
- Member of the Neuroscience Society, the ProFiL Network Association and the Genshagener Kreis
Distinctions
- 2019 ERC Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council
- 2008–2010 Fast Track Scholarship of the Robert Bosch Foundation
- 2008 Bernstein Award for Computational Neuroscience
- 2007 Award of the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Programme and the Christiane Nüsslein Volhard Foundation
- 2002–2004 Scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
- 2001–2002 Sloan-Swartz Fellow
- 2001–2002 Scholarship of the Daimler and Benz Foundation
Selected publications
- Pfeiffer, P.; Egorov, A.V.; Lorenz, F.; Schleimer, J.-H.; Draguhn, A.; Schreiber, S. (2020): Clusters of cooperative ion channels enable a membrane-potential-based mechanism for short-term memory. eLife, 9, e49974. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.49974
- Remme, M.W.H.; Rinzel, J.; Schreiber, S. (2018): Function and energy consumption constrain neuronal biophysics in a canonical computation: coincidence detection. PLoS Computational Biology, 14 (12), e1006612. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006612
- Hesse, J.; Schleimer, J.-H.; Schreiber, S. (2017): Qualitative changes in phase-response curve and synchronization at the saddle-node-loop bifurcation. Physical Review E, 95 (5), 052203. DOI: PhysRevE.95.052203
- Wilmes, K.A.; Sprekeler, H.; Schreiber, S. (2016): Inhibition as a binary switch for excitatory plasticity in pyramidal neurons. PLoS Computational Biology, 12 (3), e1004768. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004768
- Hesse, J.; Schreiber, S. (2015): Externalization of neuronal somata as an evolutionary strategy for energy economization. Current Biology, 25 (8), R324–R325. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.02.024
- Roemschied, F.A.; Eberhard, M.J.B.; Schleimer, J.-H.; Ronacher, B.; Schreiber, S. (2014): Cell-intrinsic mechanisms of temperature compensation in a grasshopper sensory receptor neuron. eLife, 3, e02078. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.02078