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Research Networking for OWL Medical School and Core Facilities

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Officer of the Rectorate for Research Networking for OWL Medical School and Core Facilities

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Prof. Dr. Martin Egelhaaf (Photo)

Prof. Dr. Martin Egelhaaf

Rectorate Representative for Research Networking of the Medical School OWL and Core Facilities

E-mail
martin.egelhaaf@uni-bielefeld.de
Telephone
+49 521 106-4156
Room
UHG B3-243

Function and Duties

The Officer of the Rectorate is tasked with supporting the development of the OWL Medical School and its research with the university’s other academic faculties and central academic institutes, as well as with regional institutions. A key objective of the Rectorate is to leverage the opportunities provided by the new Faculty of Medicine’s synergies in both content and infrastructure to help contribute to Bielefeld University’s profile as a renowned place for research on the national and international stage. Four key thematic areas are at the centre of these efforts:

  • Appointing responsible officials for professorship planning in medicine for the OWL Faculty of Medicine
  • Research networking between medicine and other areas of the university and region
  • Structural and development planning of the University Hospital, particularly clinical medicine as a focus of research
  • Development of cross-faculty and cross-institutional research and IT infrastructure (Core Facilities)

Strategic Area

About

Prof. Dr. Martin Egelhaaf stands with his arms folded in the central university hall. The graffiti wall can be seen in the background.
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Martin Egelhaaf has been a Professor of Neurobiology at Bielefeld University since 1995. He studied at the University of Tübingen and the University of Sussex (Brighton, UK). He completed his dissertation at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, and received his doctorate from the University of Tübingen in 1985, where he also earned his post-doctoral habilitation in 1989. In 1994, he moved from the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics to the Centre for Visual Sciences at the Australian National University (Canberra, Australia) as a research group leader.

Martin Egelhaaf’s main areas of research include the neuronal mechanisms of visual behaviour control in insects and the application of principles of biological information processing to artificial systems. He was the spokesperson of the “Strategies and Optimization of Behaviour” Research Training Group, funded by the German Research Foundation, and Coordinator of the “Simulations about Brains” group in the network MONIST, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, as well as a principal investigator within the Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC).

Martin Egelhaaf served as Dean of the Faculty of Biology from 2002–2004, Vice Rector for Research, Early Career Researchers, and Transfer from 2006–2015, and later as Vice Rector for Research, Early Career Researchers, and Gender Equality, as well as Vice Rector for Research and Research Transfer from January 2020 – October 2021. He has served as the Officer of the Rectorate for Research Networking in Medicine since October 2021.

Contact

Marion Kranzmann

Assistance for Rectorate Representative for Research Networking in Medicine

marion.kranzmann@uni-bielefeld.de

Telephone
+49 521 106-4143
Room
UHG U8-217
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