Herzog (biography)

I studied Mathematics, Biology, and Philosophy at the Universities of Erlangen, Tübingen (both Germany), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA). In 1992, I earned a ”Diplom” in mathematics with a thesis on the structure of the ”Automorphism groups of Hamming graphs” under the super­vision of Prof. Hering (University of Tübingen). In 1993, I received a Master in philosophy with an inves­ti­gation about current approaches to intention­ality and repre­sen­ta­tion (Prof. Keuth, Tübingen). My main interest, however, is the wide field of visual percep­tion. Under the super­vision of Prof. Fahle at the Section of Visual Science (Tübingen) and Prof. Poggio at MIT, I finished a thesis on ”mathema­tical models and psycho­physical experi­ments of perceptual learning” earning a Ph.D. in biology.

In 1998-1999, I did a post-doc in the lab of Prof. Koch at Caltech (USA) investi­gating the charac­ter­istics of temporal processing and feature integration. From 1999-2004, I have been a senior researcher at the section of Human Neurobiology at the University of Bremen (Head: Prof. Fahle) and was a leader of a research project at the Center of Excellence 517 ”Neurocog­nition” of the DFG (German Research Council). Temporarily, I held a profes­sor­ship for neuro­bio­psychology at the University of Osnabrueck (Germany) for one year.

Since 2004, I am a professor for psycho­physics at the Brain Mind Institute (BMI) at the EPFL in Lausanne (Switzerland).