Award Winners

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.

For more detailed information on the "Brains for Brains Awards" (sponsored by Brain Products among others) and this year's winners, please visit the Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience's website.

July 2010

DGPA “Young Scientist Award” 2010:
Dr. Paul Sauseng (University of Salzburg)

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)

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.

Aug 2009

DGPA “Young Scientist Award” 2009:
Dr. Tobias Heed (University of Hamburg)

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)

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)

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) and Claudia Sannelli (Berlin Institute of Technology)

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)

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, UCL)

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)

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 (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)

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...