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May 2013

DGPA "Young Scientist Award" 2013:
Dr. Erik Mueller
Justus-Liebig-University in Gießen, Clinical Psychology, Germany

Between May 30th and June 1st, 2013, again several hundred scientists attended the annual meeting of the German Society for Applied Psychophysiology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychophysiologie und ihre Anwendung; DGPA), which this year was held at the Congress Center Wuerzburg (CCW). As in previous years, Brain Products sponsored a prize, awarded to a young scientist who had presented an outstanding paper during the conference. This year’s winner was Dr. Erik Mueller (Justus-Liebig-University in Gießen / Clinical Psychology).

Apr 2013

CNT Early Career Investigator Award 2012:
Dr Umair Javaid Chaudhury
UCL Institute of Neurology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, UK

The 2012 winner is Dr Umair Javaid Chaudhury currently a research associate in the Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, at the UCL Institute of Neurology. He is a bachelor of Medicine and bachelor of Surgery (Lahore, Pakistan), and has an MSc in Clinical Neurology (UCL). His thesis evaluated the haemodynamic correlates of interictal and ictal epileptic discharges and ictal semiology using simultaneous scalp video-EEG-fMRI and intracranial EEG-fMR.

Sep 2012

Brains for Brains 2012:
Michael Eickenberg
Saclay, INRIA, France

The International Bernstein Conference 2012 took place at Klinikum rechts der Isar in Munich organized by the Bernstein Centere Munich. More than 20 renowned scientists gave lectures and over 250 posters were displayed. One of the highlights is the Bernstein Award for computational neuroscience that provides up to EUR 1.25 million for 5 years enabling excellent young researchers to build up an independent research group at a German research institution.

Sep 2012

KogWis "Best Poster Award" 2012:
Carolin Dudschig, Irmgard de la Vega, Barbara Kaup
University of Tübingen, Germany

For some years, Brain Products has participated in the biannual meeting of the German Cognitive Science Society. This year it was held at the University of Bamberg (Sept. 30 to Oct. 3). It was not only a conference offering interesting talks on current problems in cognitive science but it also included a poster presentation. As usual, the event closed with the presentation of prizes such as student travel awards, paper awards and a best poster award. The latter was sponsored by Brain Products and the winner was Carolin Dudschig. She received a trophy and a certificate as well as a EUR 500 cheque.

Jun 2012

DGPA "Young Scientist Award" 2012:
Dr. Gregor Maximilian Leicht
University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany

It has now become an established tradition to use the annual meeting of the DGPA (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychophysiologie und ihre Anwendungen e.v.) to award a prize to a young scientist who has presented an outstanding empirical or theoretical paper in the area of psychophysiological research involving electroencephalography (EEG). This year the annual meeting was held at the University of Jena on June 8 - 10 and the winner was Dr. Gregor Maximilian Leicht from the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf. He received a trophy and a certificate as well as a 1000 Euro cheque sponsored by Brain Products.

Apr 2012

UCL Young Investigator Award 2011:
Marc Modat
UCL’s Centre for Medical Image Computing and Dementia Research Centre (DRC) on medical image registrationt, London, UK

The 2011 winner of the Young Investigator Award in Neuroimaging Techniques is Marc Modat, a research associate between UCL’s Centre for Medical Image Computing CMIC) and the Dementia Research Centre (DRC) on medical image registration. The award consists of a cheque for £500, a trophy and a certificate signed by Professor Malcolm Grant, Provost of UCL (University College London). Brain Products is the proud sponsor of this award.

Dec 2011

BCI 2011 Conference "Best Poster & Best Talk Award":
C. Ruf (Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen, Germany)
and Y. Blokland (Radboud University, Nijmengen, Netherlands)

At the BCI 2011 conference in Graz, Austria, Professor Jacques Vidal presented awards for the best poster and the best paper submitted. The recipients of the awards, Ms. C. Ruf of Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen and Ms. Y. Blokland of Radboud University, Nijmengen each received a cheque for 300€ plus a trophy and a certificate signed by Gernot Müller-Putz of TU Graz. These awards are proudly sponsored by Brain Products.

Jun 2011

DGPA "Young Scientist Award" 2011:
Dr. Carsten Diener
Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany

Between 23-25 June 2011, several hundred scientists attended the annual meeting of the German Society for Applied Psychophysiology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychophysiologie und ihre Anwendung; DGPA), which this year was held at the University of Heidelberg. As in previous years, the DGPA and Brain Products awarded a prize to a young scientist who had presented an outstanding paper during the conference. This year’s winner was Dr. Carsten Diener from the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim

Dec 2010

UCL Young Investigator Award 2010:
Robert Cooper
University College London, UK

The 2010 winner of the Young Investigator Award in Neuroimaging Techniques is Robert Cooper, a PhD student at UCL. The award consists of a cheque for £500, a trophy and a certificate signed by Professor Malcolm Grant, Provost of UCL (University College London). Brain Products is the proud sponsor of this award. The UCL Young Investigator Award is designed to reward an outstanding contribution consisting of single or multiple achievements in the field of neuroimaging techniques by a young investigator at UCL.

July 2010

Brains for Brains Awardees 2010

In 2010, the Bernstein Computational Neuroscience Association confers for the first time three "Brains for Brains Young Researchers' Computational Neuroscience Awards".

This years' awardees are: Ritvik Kumar Niyogi (India, curr. Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UK), Costas Lagogiannis (Greece, curr. University of Southampton, UK) and Martinez Cancino (Cuba, Cuban National Bioinformatics Center).

Besides a 500 Euro cash prize money, the award is equipped with a travel grant of up to 1.500 Euro covering a one-week trip to Germany and individually planned visits to up to three German research institions in Computational Neuroscience.

July 2010

DGPA "Young Scientist Award" 2010:
Dr. Paul Sauseng
University of Salzburg, Austria

During June 10- 12, 2010 several hundred scientists once again attended the annual meeting of the German Society for Applied Psychophysiology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychophysiologie und ihre Anwendung; DGPA), which this year was held at the University of Greifswald (Germany). Also as in previous years, the DGPA awarded prizes – one of them sponsored by Brain Products – to young scientists who had presented outstanding papers or posters.

Mar 2010

Brain Vision Prize for "Best Doctoral Presentation":
Etienne Vachon Presseau
University of Montréal, QC, Canada

In the context of this years "18ième Journée scientifique du CERNEC" held on March 11th/12th in Montreal, Etienne Vachon Presseau (University of Montréal, Centre de recherche, IUGM) received the award for "Best Doctoral Presentation". The presentation focused on "PERCEVOIR DE LA DOULEUR CHEZ AUTRUI MODULE L'EXCITABILITÉ SPINALE ET L'EXPÉRIENCE DE LA DOULEUR D'UN OBSERVATEUR" by E. Vachon-Presseau (Université de Montréal, Centre de recherche, IUGM, Université de Montréal), M.O. Martel (Université McGill), M. Roy (Université de Montréal, Centre de recherche, IUGM, Université de Montréal), E. Caron (Université de Montréal), P. Jackson (Université Laval), P. Rainville (Université de Montréal, Centre de recherche, IUGM, Université de Montréal).

The award and the prize money associated with it was proudly sponsored by Brain Vision LLC.

Jan 2010

UCL Young Investigator Award 2009:
Dr. David Carmichael
Institute of Neurology, University College London (UK)

On February 4th 2010, Chris Clark (Co-Chair of UCL’s Centre for Neuroimaging Techniques, UCL-CNT) presented the 2009 „Young Investigator Award in Neuroimaging Techniques“. The winner, Dr. David Carmichael, received a check for £500 as well as a trophy and a certificate signed by Professor Malcolm Grant, Provost of UCL (University College London). This award is proudly sponsored by Brain Products.

Aug 2009

DGPA "Young Scientist Award" 2009:
Dr. Tobias Head
University of Hamburg, Germany

From June 11th - 13th, 2009, several hundred scientists again attended the annual meeting of the German Society for Applied Psychophysiology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychophysiologie und ihre Anwendung; DGPA) “Arbeitstagung Psychologie und Methodik” which, this year, was held at the University of Leipzig. And just as in previous years, the DGPA awarded prizes - one of which was spon-sored by Brain Products - to young scientists who presented outstanding papers or posters.

Apr 2009

UCL Young Investigator Award 2008:
Benjamin Judkewitz
Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, UCL, London, UK

On December 4th 2008, Professor Louis Lemieux (Chair of UCL’s Centre for Neuroimaging Techniques, UCL-CNT) presented the second Annual UCL-CNT Young Investigator in Neuroimaging Award. The winner, Mr Benjamin Judkewitz, received a cheque for £500 as well as a trophy and a certificate signed by Professor Malcolm Grant, Provost of UCL (University College London). This award is proudly sponsored by Brain Products.

Dec 2008

KogWis "Best Poster Award" 2008:
S. Jatzev, T. Zander, M. De Filippis, C. Kothe, S. Welke and M. Rötting
TU Berlin, Germany

From September 28th to October 1st the 9th Meeting of the Society for Cognitive Science (Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft) was held in Dresden/Germany. This year’s meeting mainly focused on “Applications in Human-Machine-Systems & Cognitive Technical Systems” and attracted roughly 170 scientists from Germany, Austria and Switzerland....

Dec 2008

BCI Workshop Graz "Young Scientist Awards" 2008:
Anne-Marie Brouwer (TNO, Soesterberg, Netherlands) and Claudia Sannelli (Berlin Institute of Technology, Germany)

From September 18th to September 21st the Institute for Knowledge Discovery in Graz organized and hosted the 4th International Brain-Computer Interface Workshop and Training Course 2008. In the context of this event Brain Products had the honor of sponsoring two young scientist awards, ultimately presented to Ms. Claudia Sannelli (Berlin Institute of Technology, Germany) and Ms. Anne-Marie Brouwer (TNO, The Netherlands)....

May 2008

DGPA "Young Scientist Award" 2008:
Dr. Cornelia Kranczioch
University of Portsmouth, UK

Several hundred scientists attended the annual meeting of the German Society for Applied Psychophysiology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychophysiologie und ihre Anwendung; DGPA) “Psychologie und Gehirn” which took place at the University of Magdeburg from May 15th - 17th, 2008. And just as in previous years the DGPA presented three awards for young scientists – one of which was sponsored by Brain Products...

Dec 2007

UCL Young Investigator Award 2007:
Dr. Josephine Barnes
Institute of Neurology, University College London, UK

On December 6th, Professor Louis Lemieux (Chair of UCL’s Centre for Neuroimaging Techniques, UCL-CNT) presented the first ever Annual UCL-CNT Young Investigator in Neuroimaging Award...

Jun 2007

DGPA "Young Scientist Award" 2007:
Dr. Patrick Khader
Philipps University Marburg, Germany

As in previous years, around 300 scientists attended the symposium “Psychologie und Gehirn” which took place at the Westfalenhallen Congress Centre in Dortmund from June 7th – June 9th, 2007. And this time also, the promoters, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychophysiologie und ihre Anwendung (DGPA) presented three Young Scientist Awards, one of them sponsored by Brain Products...

Mar 2007

Kogwis "Next Generation Award" 2007:
Theo Jäger (University of Saarbrücken) and Ulrike Pompe (University of Tübingen)

From 18 – 21 March 2007, the eighth annual symposium of the German Cognitive Science Society – the „KogWis 07“ – took place in Saarbrücken. Subjects in the field of neurocognitive psychology and questions having to do with applied cognitive psychology were discussed in numerous workshops and symposiums...

Jun 2006

DGPA "Young Scientist Award" 2006:
Dr. Stefan Debener
MRC Institute of Hearing Research in Southampton, UK

In cooperation with the DGPA (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychophysiologie und ihre Anwendung, www.dgpa.de) Brain Products has announced and financed the Young Scientist Award 2006...