Prof. Dr. rer. nat., John-Dylan Haynes
Professor (W3) VCF
Contact information
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience
Philippstrasse 13, Haus 6, 10115 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0)30 2093-6758
E-Mail:
Scientific Education
| 2003 | PhD Biology, Bremen University, Supervisors Prof. Dr. Gerhard Roth and Prof. Dr. Michael Stadler |
| 1997 | Diploma Psychology, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Stadler |
| 1992 – 1997 | Study of Psychology, Bremen University |
Professional Experience
| Since 2009 | Professor (W3) for Theory and Analysis of Large Scale Brain Signals, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Head of the Berlin Center for Advanced Neuroimaging |
| 2006 – 2009 | Professor (W2) for Theory and Analysis of Large Scale Brain Signals, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin |
| 2005 – 2010 | Head of independent research group “Attention and Awareness” at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig |
| 2003 – 2005 | Postdoc at the Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience and Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, University College London |
| 2001 – 2003 | Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience and Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, University College London |
| 2001 – 2003 | Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Neuroscience, Plymouth |
| 2001 | Postgraduate researcher at the Institute for Neuropsychology and Behavioural Neurology, University of Bremen |
| 1999 – 2001 | Postgraduate researcher at the Hanse-Institute for Advanced Study, Delmenhorst, Germany |
| 1997 – 2000 | Postgraduate researcher at the Institute for Psychology and Cognition Research, University of Bremen |
| 1993 – 1997 | Student research assistant at the Institute for Psychology and Cognition Research, University of Bremen |
Other Scientific Activities, Honors, Awards
- Editorial Board Member of NeuroImage and guest editor for special issue on “Multivariate Decoding and Brain Reading”
- Organisation of multiple international Conferences and Summer Schools (Daimler Benz Colloquium 2007; Brain Connectivity Workshop 2009; Berlin Brain Computer Interface Workshop 2009; 13th Annual Conference of the Association of the Scientific Study of Consciousness 2009; 18th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting 2009; Visual Masking 2009; Interdisciplinary College Cognitive Science in Günne 2011).
Selected Publications
Reverberi, C., Görgen, K. & Haynes, J.D. (2011). Compositionality of rule representations in human prefrontal cortex. Cerebral Cortex. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhr200.
Boger, C., Bode, S. & Haynes, J.D. (2011). Decoding successive computational stages of saliency processing. Current Biology, 21, 1667-1671.
Kahnt, T., Grueschow, M., Speck, O. & Haynes, J.D. (2011). Perceptual learning and decision-making in human medial frontal cortex. Neuron, 70, 549-59.
Kahnt, T., Heinzle, J., Park, S.Q. & Haynes, J.D. (2010). The neural code of reward anticipation in human orbitofrontal cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 107, 6010-5.
Soon, C.S., Brass, M., Heinze, H.J.& Haynes, J.D. (2008). Unconscious determinants of free decisions in the human brain. Nature Neuroscience 11, 543-5.