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Prof. Dr. rer. nat.

Susanne Schreiber

Humboldt University of Berlin

Christian Thiel/Deutscher Ethikrat

“Scientific progress and socially relevant incidents constantly challenge us to rethink and adapt our human actions. An unbiased assessment of the facts and an analysis of the pros and cons are essential in order to identify good solutions. The interdisciplinary diversity of perspectives and a constructive exchange of views, even if there are conflicting positions, are particularly important to me. As someone who operates at the intersection of life sciences and mathematics, I am keen to contribute my expertise and to take responsibility for our social cohesion.”

Focus of the commitment in the German Ethics Council

  • Neurosciences
  • Chances and risks of artificial intelligence
  • Patient wellbeing-oriented data use in medical research
  • Mathematical modelling in the life sciences

Professional background

  • Since 2015 Professor for Theoretical Neurophysiology at the Humboldt University of Berlin
  • 2009–2014 Head of Research Group and since 2010 Junior Professor for Computational Neurophysiology at the Humboldt University of Berlin
  • 2004–2008 Research Assistant at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
  • 2004 Doctorate in Theoretical Biophysics
  • 2001–2002 Sloan-Swartz Fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla (USA)
  • 1999–2000 Research stay at the University of Cambridge (UK)
  • 1995–2000 Study of Biophysics at the Humboldt University of Berlin

Memberships

  • Since 2020 Vice-Chair of the German Ethics Council
  • Chairperson of the Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience
  • Scholar in the FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence
  • Member of the steering committee of the Bernstein Center Berlin
  • Member of the Academic Senate of the Humboldt University of Berlin
  • Member of the Neuroscience Society, the ProFiL Network Association and the Genshagener Kreis

Distinctions

  • 2019 ERC Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council
  • 2008–2010 Fast Track Scholarship of the Robert Bosch Foundation
  • 2008 Bernstein Award for Computational Neuroscience
  • 2007 Award of the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Programme and the Christiane Nüsslein Volhard Foundation
  • 2002–2004 Scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
  • 2001–2002 Sloan-Swartz Fellow
  • 2001–2002 Scholarship of the Daimler and Benz Foundation

Selected publications

  • Pfeiffer, P.; Egorov, A.V.; Lorenz, F.; Schleimer, J.-H.; Draguhn, A.; Schreiber, S. (2020): Clusters of cooperative ion channels enable a membrane-potential-based mechanism for short-term memory. eLife, 9, e49974. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.49974
  • Remme, M.W.H.; Rinzel, J.; Schreiber, S. (2018): Function and energy consumption constrain neuronal biophysics in a canonical computation: coincidence detection. PLoS Computational Biology, 14 (12), e1006612. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006612
  • Hesse, J.; Schleimer, J.-H.; Schreiber, S. (2017): Qualitative changes in phase-response curve and synchronization at the saddle-node-loop bifurcation. Physical Review E, 95 (5), 052203. DOI: PhysRevE.95.052203
  • Wilmes, K.A.; Sprekeler, H.; Schreiber, S. (2016): Inhibition as a binary switch for excitatory plasticity in pyramidal neurons. PLoS Computational Biology, 12 (3), e1004768. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004768
  • Hesse, J.; Schreiber, S. (2015): Externalization of neuronal somata as an evolutionary strategy for energy economization. Current Biology, 25 (8), R324–R325. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.02.024
  • Roemschied, F.A.; Eberhard, M.J.B.; Schleimer, J.-H.; Ronacher, B.; Schreiber, S. (2014): Cell-intrinsic mechanisms of temperature compensation in a grasshopper sensory receptor neuron. eLife, 3, e02078. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.02078