Timo van Kerkoerle
CV
Education:
1999 – 2002: Bachelor in Physics, University of Amsterdam
2002 – 2005: Bachelor in Philosophy, University of Amsterdam
2005 – 2007: Master in Physics, University of Amsterdam
2008 – 2013: PhD with Pieter R. Roelfsema, Vision & Cognition, Netherlands Institute for
Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Work Experience:
2013 – 2016: Postdoc with Charles D. Gilbert, Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
2016 – 2017: Postdoc with Stanislas Dehaene, Neurospin, Saclay, France
2018 – present: Principal investigator, and head of the Deep Imaging Platform, Neurospin, Saclay, France
Invited lectures:
“Reversible symbolic reference: A potential singularity of the human brain”, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, 29 January 2020.
“Cross-modal association learning in humans and monkeys”, Osnabrück University, Osnabrück, Germany 20 November 2019.
“Cross-modal association learning in humans and monkeys”, Tübingen Systems Neuroscience Symposium, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, 27 September 2019.
"Two modes of feedback processing in monkey visual cortex", NeuroFrance conference, Marseille, France, 24 May 2019.
"Two modes of feedback processing in monkey visual cortex", Dynamique Cérébrale et Cognition, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France, 4 October 2018.
"Imagerie à 3 photons chez le primate pendant une tache cognitive", Institute for Cognitive Sciences - Marc Jeannerod, Lyon, France, 3 October 2018.
"3-photon microscopy in awake behaving monkeys", France Life Imaging, Paris, France 27 September 2018.
"Two modes of feedback processing in monkey visual cortex", Ernst Strüngmann Institute, Max Planck Society, Frankfurt, Germany, 29 July 2018.
"Cortical Mechanisms of Selective Attention & Working Memory", Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs, École normale supérieure, Paris, France, 6 June 2018.
"Two modes of feedback processing in monkey visual cortex", Center for Information and Neural Networks, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, 28 February 2018.
"Cortical Mechanisms of Selective Attention and Working Memory", The Assembly and Function of Neuronal Circuits, Ascona, Switzerland, 2 October 2017.
"Cortical Mechanisms of Selective Attention and Working Memory", Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France, 18 October 2016.
"Cortical Mechanisms of Selective Attention and Working Memory", NeuroSpin, CEA Saclay, 1 June 2015.
"Cortical Mechanisms of Selective Attention and Working Memory", Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, 9 February 2015.
"Cortical Feedback as a Common Mechanism in Selective Attention & Working Memory", Center for Neural Science, NYU, New York, USA, 28 March 2014.
"Alpha and gamma oscillations characterize feedforward and feedback processing in monkey visual cortex", Center for Neural Science, NYU, New York, USA, 30 September 2013.
"Reciprocal mechanisms of alpha and gamma oscillations in monkey V1", Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, 24 May 2012.
"Feedforward and feedback activity in monkey visual cortex", Schurmacher Institute for Vision Research, SUNY College of Optometry, New York, USA, 25 October 2012.
"Feedforward and feedback activity in monkey visual cortex", Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton, 24 October 2012.
"Feedforward and feedback activity in monkey visual cortex", Vanderbilt Vision Research Center, 19 October 2012.
"Feedforward and feedback activity in monkey visual cortex", Neurospin, Gif-sur-Yvette November 28 2011.
"Reciprocal mechanisms of alpha and gamma oscillations in monkey V1", Bodian lectures, Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute, Baltimore, 11 November 2011.
"Gamma frequencies flow in the feed-forward direction, alpha frequencies flow in the recurrent direction through the different layers of monkey primary visual cortex", Donders discussions, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, 13 October 2011.
Public outreach:
"How our visual perception is shaped by mental models", conference for the Brain Awareness Week 2021. See the link for a video.