Gordon Pipa - Curriculum Vitae

Gordon Pipa became Full Professor (W3) and chair of the Neuroinformatics department at the Institute of Cognitive Science (Osnabrück University) at the age of 36. His academic career includes several prestigious international positions: he had hold a Group leader postion in Prof. Wolf Singer Department of Neurophysiology, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany and a Junior fellow position at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Between 2007 and 2009 he was a Research fellow with Prof. Emery Brown with a joint appointment at the Dep. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the MIT, Cambridge, and the Dep. of Anesthesia and Critical Care at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Between 2023 and 2025, he was a visiting professor in the Department of Bioengineering at Stanford University.

Today, he is professor and chair of the Neuroinformatics department, director of the Institute of Cognitive Science at Osnabrück University, and a fellow at FIAS.

Education

2010 - Habilitation, Biology, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

2006 - PhD, with Prof. Klaus Obermayer, Dep. of Neural Information Processing, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

2002 - Diploma, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research and the Faculty of Physics, J. W. Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

9/1995–5/2001 Diploma-Studies in Physics, RWTH-Aachen University, Germany