Professional:

Research Interests:
The general area of interest is how temporal information of natural stimuli is encoded and processed by the brain. Experimental techniques focus on interpreting and modulating brain activity in humans non-invasively using electro-encephalography and trans-cranial electrical stimulation, or in short, "reading" and "writing" the brain with electric fields. The work is often coupled with auditory and visual psychophysics and always incorporates computational or mathematical models.

For more detail see a list of publications.

Appointments:
08/2003 - Current:  City College of New York, City University of New York
                 Professor of Biomedical Engineering
03/2002 - 07/2002:  Columbia University
                 Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
04/1997 - 07/2003: Sarnoff Corporation
                  Technology Leader, Adaptive Signal and Image Processing
04/1995 - 03/1997: Siemens Corporate Research
                   MTS, Imaging Department

Education:
1985-1995: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
                   Physics and Computer Science, Ph.D. in 1996

Personal:

Born August 16th, 1966 in Tucuman Argentina, moved to Munich Germany in September 1976, studied there, married and had a daughter in October 1990 (see pictures from 1998, 2000 and 2008). Moved to New York City in March 1994. Divorced in 2002.

Believes:

Information is fragile and free. It is the ultimate product of human activity. It is not yours but the result of generations creating structure in an universe of increasing entropy. It has no intrinsic value and becomes alive only through action and context. Create it, store it, use it, but never own it. Intellectual property is public property.