Rune W. Berg, PhD
CURRENT POSITION: Externally funded associate Professor (lektor/seniorforsker)
EDUCATION:
- 2003 Ph.D. in Biophysics, University Of California, San Diego (with Professor David Kleinfeld, 1997-2003)
- 2000 M.S. in Physics, UC San Diego
- 2000 Cand. Scient. in Biophysics, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
- 1997 B.Sc. in Biophysics, Niels Bohr Institute, U. Copenhagen
CURRENT FUNDING: The 2008 Hallas-Møller fellowship from the Novo-Nordic foundation (5.7 million DKK)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
- Jan 2008-Present Externally funded Associate Professor University of Copenhagen (Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology)
- Jan 2004-2007 Post Doctoral member of Jorn Hounsgaards Lab, University of Copenhagen
- Sep-Dec 2003 Visiting Post Doctoral fellow at Taipei Veterans General Hospital and National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.
SPECIAL TRAINING:
- July 2008: 2 week summer school Woods Hole, MBL Massachusetts, "Neuroinformatics"
- June 2008: 2 week summer school Denmark, "Stochastic differential equations in Biology"
- June 2004: 1 week workshop “Construction of the brain – Development and evolutionary principles: synaptogenesis and neuronal network formation” Kristineberg Marine research station, Sweden.
- July 2001: 2 week Workshop "Neurophysics" at the Institute of Theoretical Physics (ITP), Santa Barbara, California.
- August 2000: 3 day Workshop "Neuron as a nonlinear oscillator" at Salk institute, La Jolla, California.
- July 1996: 7 day workshop with the Bending magnet beamline D4 at HASYLAB, Hamburg, Germany, under supervision of professor Jens Als-Nielsen (University of Copenhagen)
Administrative:
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Functional Neuronal Networks
- Sensory and Motor processing
- Physics of complex systems
