Manuel Schottdorf
Biography
Dr. Manuel Schottdorf is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at the University of Delaware. His scholarly research explores how learned knowledge changes how we perceive the world. He conducts basic research with multiple methods of assessment: Computational and AI techniques, electrophysiology, two-photon microscopy, and virtual-reality based behavior. Dr. Schottdorf studied physics before completing a Ph.D. at the Max Planck Institutes for Experimental Medicine and Dynamics and Self-Organization in Germany and a Postdoc at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute. He enjoys developing scientific instrumentation and won numerous awards over the years, among them a Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD Fellowship, an Otto Hahn medal, and a Burroughs Wellcome Fund’s Career Award.
Education
- Ph.D. University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
- M.S. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
- M.S. University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
- B.S. University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
