Dr. Viola Priesemann
Max Planck Group Leader & Fellow of the Schiemann Kolleg
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization &
Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience
Göttingen, Germany
About. Deutsch (English below)
Dr. Viola Priesemann forscht am Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation und lehrt an der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Sie erforscht Ausbreitungsprozesse, Selbstorganisation und Informationsverarbeitung in lebenden und künstlichen Netzwerken. Seit dem Ausbruch von COVID-19 hat sie die Ausbreitung von SARS-CoV-2 erforscht, die Wirksamkeit der Maßnahmen quantifiziert und Eindämmungsstrategien entwickelt. Viola Priesemann ist Mitautorin mehrerer Stellungnahmen (u.a. der Leopoldina), Fellow des Schiemann-Kollegs und Mitglied des Exzellenzclusters „Multiscale Bioimaging“ der Universität Göttingen.
Dr. Viola Priesemann is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization and teaches at the Georg-August University Göttingen. She studies spreading processes, self-organization and information processing in living and artificial networks. Since the COVID-19 outbreak, she has been studying the spread of SARS-CoV-2, quantified the effectiveness of interventions, and developed containment strategies. Viola Priesemann is co-author of several position papers (e.g. of the National Academy Leopoldina), Fellow of the Schiemann-Kolleg and member of the Cluster of Excellence “Multiscale Bioimaging” at the Campus Göttingen.
| Research Positions | |
| since 2016 | MPRG Group Leader (W2) MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization Göttingen |
| 2014 - 2016 | Bernstein Fellow & Group Leader Bernstein Center Göttingen |
| 2013 - 2014 | PostDoc with Theo Geisel at the MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization Göttingen |
| Education | |
| 2009 - 2013 | PhD Project at Caltech, MPI for Brain Research & Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) with Gilles Laurent & Jochen Triesch |
| 2010 | Marine Biology Laboratories, Woods Hole, USA Summer School “Neural Systems and Behavior” |
| 2008 - 2009 | École Normale Supérieure, Paris with Christian Machens |
| 2008 | Diploma (Master) in Physics Technical University Darmstadt |
| 2006 - 2008 | Research Thesis MPI for Brain Research, Frankfurt |
| Honors & Awards | |
| 2021 | "Medaille für naturwissenschaftliche Publizistik" of the German Physical Society |
| 2021 - | Member of the "Junge Akademie" |
| 2021 | Max Planck Communitas Award |
| 2020 | Member of the Cluster of Excellence "Multiscale Bioimaging", Campus Göttingen |
| 2020 | Our paper is one of the Max Planck Scientific Highlights 2020 |
| 2020 | Initiator and author of several position papers on COVID-19, e.g. together with the Leopoldina |
| 2016 - 2018 | Project Leader Physics to Medicine Initiative |
| 2016 - 2017 | German-Israel Foundation Young Investigator Grant |
| 2015 | Selected as Max Planck Research Group Leader |
| 2015 - 2020 | Fellow of the Schiemann Kolleg |
| 2014 & 2015 | Chair of the Computational Neuroscience Social at the Annual Meeting of the SfN |
| 2010 | Thomas B. Grave and Elizabeth F. Grave Scholarship |