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Dr. Torben Ott

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Current position

2022 - present Group Leader of the Decision Circuits Lab at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DE)

Positions held 

2020 - 2021 Senior Scientist at Washington University, St. Louis (US)
2016 - 2020 Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (US)

Academic Education

2011 - 2016 Doctoral Degree in Neurosciences at the International Max Planck Research School
2005 - 2011 Diploma in Biology at University of Tübingen (DE)

Honors/Awards/Fellowships

2023 ERC Starting Grant

DFG-funded projects

2026 -present SFB 1315 - ‘Mechanisms and disturbances in memory consolidation: From synapses to systems’
2022 -present Emmy Noether Independent Research Groups - ‘Monoaminergic neuromodulation of cortical circuits underlying economic investment decisions’ 
2017 - 2020 Postdoctoral Fellowship - ‘Orbitofrontal cortical circuitry mediating post-decision confidence reports’

Selected activities