Focus of research
- Learning and memory formation in the mammalian hippocampus
- Neural basis of spatial hearing
- Statistical analysis and modelling of spatiotemporal neural activity patterns
CV
- Since 2021 Full Professor (W3) of Theoretical Systems Neuroscience, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg
- 2016-2021 Speaker Research Training Group 2175: Perception in Context and its Neural Basis.
- 2011-2013 Vicedean at the Faculty of Biology, LMU Munich
- 2009-2014 Speaker Bernstein Focus “Neural Basis of Learning” in Munich
- 2009-2011 Senator of the LMU Munich
- 2006-2021 Member of the Scientific Board Graduate School for Systemic Neuroscience (LMU)
- 2006-2021 W2 Professor of Computational Neuroscience LMU Munich
- 2002-2006 Postdocs at TU Munich, HU Berlin and Charité Berlin
- 1999-2002 PhD in Theoretical Physics, TU Munich
- 1993-1999 Diploma studies in Physics at TU Munich
Selected publications
- D. Fetterhoff, A. Sobolev, C. Leibold. (2021) Graded Remapping of Hippocampal Ensembles under Sensory Conflicts. Cell Rep 36: 109661.
- A. Chenani, M. Sabariego, M.I. Schlesiger, J.K. Leutgeb, S. Leutgeb, C. Leibold (2019) Hippocampal CA1 replay becomes less prominent but more rigid without inputs from medial entorhinal cortex. Nat Commun 10: 1341
- M.M. Monsalve-Mercado, C. Leibold (2017) Hippocampal Spike-Timing Correlations Lead to Hexagonal Grid Fields. Phys Rev Lett 119: 038101.
- M.I. Schlesiger, C.C. Cannova, B.L. Boublil, J.B. Hales, E.A. Mankin, M.P. Brandon, J.K. Leutgeb, C. Leibold, S. Leutgeb (2015) The medial entorhinal cortex is necessary for temporal organization of hippocampal neuronal activity. Nat Neurosci 18: 1123- 1132.
- S. Lehnert, M.C. Ford, O. Alexandrova, F. Hellmundt, F. Felmy, B. Grothe, C. Leibold (2014) Action potential generation in an anatomically constrained model of medial superior olive axons. J Neurosci 34: 5370--5384.
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