Assistant Professor
Resume:
Curriculum Vitae
Alexander Vinzenz Maier, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
College of Arts and Science
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37240
Phone: 615-***-****
Email: ****.*****@**********.***
Web: http://www.alexmaier.info
Employment:
2011-present: Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
2009-2011: Research Fellow, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA
2004-2008: Visiting Fellow, Unit of Cognitive Neurophysiology and Imaging,
National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH), Bethesda, MD, USA
Education:
2005: Ph.D. ( summa cum laude ) in Neural and Behavioral Sciences
Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics, TUbingen, German y /
Graduate School for Behavioral and Neurosciences, TUbingen, Germany
2002: M.Sc. in Neurobiology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
1999: B.Sc. in Biology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
Honors / Awards:
2009: Fellows Award of Research Excellence (National Institutes of Health)
2006: Klaus Tschira Award (German National Merit Foundation)
2006: Julius Axelrod Memorial Fellowship Award (National Institute of Mental Health)
Original publications:
Maier, A., Aura,
C.
Professional Affiliations:
2002-present: Society for Neuroscience
2004- present: Vision Science Society
2005- present: Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
2005- present: German Scholars Organization
2008- present: German Academic International Network
Invited Talks and Seminars:
11/23/2011 Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
06/20/2011Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
0405/2011Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
03/03/2011 University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
01/31/2011Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
12/082010Oxford University, Oxford, UK
07/16/2010Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
01/08/2010 Medical Research Council, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
0813/2009Tamagawa University, Tokyo, Japan
0803/2009Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Okinawa, Japan
07/01/2009Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, The
Netherlands
02/27/2009Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
04/09/2007Princeton University, USA
02/23/2007Yale University, CT, USA
04/11/2006 University of Texas, Houston, TX, USA
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Invited Conference and Symposium Talks:
06/24/2010 14th Annual Meeting of the ASSC, (Symposium chair), Toronto, Canada
05/07/2010 10th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, (Symposium talk), Naples,
FL
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08/08/2009 32 European Conference on Visual Perception, (Symposium talk), Germany
09/11/2008 31st Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society, (Symposium talk), Tokyo, Japan
Invited Didactical Talks at Advanced Schools, Workshops and Conferences:
04/04/2011 Guest Lecture at the Mind/Brain/Behavior Interfaculty Initiative (MBB),
Harvard
University, Boston, MA
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02/28/2011 Workshop at the 11 Annual Meeting for Computational and Systems Neuroscience,
Salt Lake City, UT
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06/23/2010 Tutorial at the 14 Annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study
of
Consciousness, Toronto, Canada
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06/24/2005 Tutorial at the 9 Annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study
of
Consciousness, Pasadena, CA
Academic Teaching:
Fall 2011: NURO 340: Systems Neuroscience: Higher-order visual processes.
Spring 2012: PSY 344: Neuroscience Graduate Seminar: Neuroscience of Consciousness.
Students/Alumni:
2010-11: Michele Cox (now in graduate studies at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
)
2008-09: Eric Reavis (now in graduate studies at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
)
2007-08: Geoffrey Adams (now in graduate studies at Duke University, Durham, NC
)
2005-07: Christopher Aura (now in graduate studies at the University of Alabama,
Birmingham, AL
)
Service:
2011-present: Neuroscience representative to colloquium committee, Vanderbilt University
2010-2011: Workshop Organizer, Cosyne 11, Salt Lake City, UT
(co-organizer: N. Tsuchiya)
2009-2011: Committee Member, Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
2009-2010: Symposium Organizer, ASSC 14, Toronto, CA
(co -organizer: N. Tsuchiya)
2009-2010: Symposium Organizer, VSS 11, Naples, FL (co -organizers: J. van Boxtel, N.
Tsuchiya)
Reviewer for:
VSS
Maier, A., Reavis, E., Adams, G., Leopold, D.A. (2009) Selective attention and perceptual
suppression
independently modulate contrast change detection. SFN
Reavis, E., Leopold, D.A., Maier, A. (2009) Saccadic modulation of laminar field
potentials in primate
visual cortex. SFN
Maier, A., (2009) Visual awareness correlates with layer -specific activity in primary
visual
cortex. [Symposium talk: Neural basis of consciousness] ECVP
Maier, A.V., Adams, G.K., Aura, C., Leopold, D.A. (2009) Distinct laminar zones of
coherent local field
potentials in monkey V1. Cosyne
Maier, A., Aura, C., Leopold, D.A. (2009) Visual awareness correlates with layer -
specific activity in
primary visual cortex. VSS
Scholvinck, M., Ye, F.Q., Zhu, C., Maier, A., Duyn, J., Leopold, D.A. (2009) State-
dependent,
widespread correlation of neural and fM RI endogenous fluctuations in the awake monkey.
ISMRM
Maier, A.V., Adams, G.K., Aura, C., Leopold, D.A. (2008) Distinct laminar zones of
coherent local field
potentials in monkey V1. SFN
Adams, G.K., Maier, A.V., Aura, C., Leopold, D.A. (2008) Endogenous fluctuations of LFP
power in
monkey V1 are compartmentalized into superficial and deep laminar zones. SFN
SchOlvinck, M.L., Maier, A.V., Ye, F., Zhu, C., Leopold, D.A. (2008) The neural basis of
fMRI functional
connectivity. SFN
Tsuchiya, N., Maier, A.V., Logothetis, N.K., Leopold, D.A. (2008) Decoding kinetic depth
using only the
temporal structure of spike trains from area MT. SFN
Leopold, D.A., Aura, C., Maier, A.V. (2008) Laminar analysis of local field and current
source density
during physical and perceptual events in monkey V1. SFN
Maier. A., Wilke, M., Aura, C., Zhu, C., Ye, F., Leopold, D.A. (2008) What happens in
primary visual
cortex when a stimulus becomes visible? Insights from fMRI and layer-specific
neurophysiology in
non-human primates. 31st Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society
Tsuchiya, N., Maier, A., Logothetis, N.K., Leopold, D.A. (2008) Decoding monkey's
conscious
experience during ambiguous and unambiguous motion percept reveals initial non -conscious
spike
activity and later neuronal correlates of consciousness in area MT. ASSC 12.
Maier, A., Aura, C., Leopold, D.A. (2008) Visual awareness correlates with layer -
specific activity in
visual cortex. ASSC 12
Tsuchiya, N., Maier, A., Logothetis, N.K., Leopold, D.A. (2008) Decoding monkey's
conscious
experience during ambiguous and unambiguous motion percept reveals initial non -conscious
spike
activity and later neuronal correlates of consciousness in area MT. Toward a Science of
Consciousness. 8th biennial Tucson confe rence.
Maier, A., Wilke, M. Aura, C., Zhu, C., Ye, F. & Leopold, D.A. (2007) Stimulus
invisibility uncouples the
fMRI BOLD response from neuronal spiking activity in V1. ASSC 11
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Liang, H., Wang, Z., Leopold, D.A., Maier, A. (2007) Optimal spatio-temporal pooling of
neural
responses in area MT. CNS
Wang, Z., Maier, A., Leopold, D.A., Liang, H. (2007) Spatiotemporal Integration of
Neuronal Activity for
Single-Trial Classifications of Bistable Perception . IJCNN
Zhu, C., Maier, A., Ye, F.Q., Leopold, D.A. (2007) High resolution RF coil insert for
electrophysiological recording chambers. ISMRM
Maier, A., Wilke, M., Aura, C., Zhu, C., Ye, F.Q., Leopold, D.A. (2006) Stimulus
invisibility uncouples
BOLD from neuronal responses in monkey primary visual cortex. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr.
Online.
Aura, C., Maier, A., Leopold, D.A. (2006) Investigation of state-dependent differences of
neuronal
activity across cortical layers in monkey visual cortex. Soc. Neurosci.
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