The interdisciplinary Research Centre Neurosensory Science (FZN) at the University of Oldenburg has a new board of directors. Following his unanimous election, biochemist Prof. Dr Karl-Wilhelm Koch will serve as Managing Director of the inter-faculty centre for the next two years.
Koch heads the Biochemistry working group in the School V - School of Medicine and Health Sciences' Department for Neuroscience. He is also the spokesperson for the Research Training Group "Molecular basis of sensory biology", which is funded by the German Research Foundation.
The five main research areas of the FZN are represented on the new board by the five section spokespersons: alongside Koch, these are the psychologist Prof. Dr Christiane Thiel, the zoophysiologist Prof. Dr Georg Klump, the neurobiologist Prof. Dr Jannis Hildebrandt and the neurogeneticist Prof. Dr Hans Gerd Nothwang.
The research centre currently has a total of 55 members, including 42 professors.
