Dr. rer. nat. Dipl. Biol. Michael Großbach

• Technical and scientific support in experimental design, conducting experiments and data analyses
• Administration of IT infrastructure and procuration of software and hardware
• Training of institute staff in computer programming and statistics

• 1992 - 1998 Student at Philipps University Marburg, majoring in neurophysiology in Klaus Kalmring's lab, paralleled by a two-year internship in his lab. External Diplom thesis at the physics department in Roman Bauer's group: "Implementation of a stimulus program and electrophysiological investigation of figur-ground segregation in the primary visual cortex of monkeys"
• 1999 - 2004 Doctaral student at Eckart Altenmüller's lab at the Institute for Music Physiology and Musician's Medicine at the University for Music and Drama Hanover, and at the Institute of Zoology at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hanover

• 1999 - 2004 being part of the German Research Foundation's Priority Programme "Time-critical information processing in the central auditory system". Doctoral dissertation: "Neuronal basis of the acquisition of mental representations of musical time structures (rhythm and metre)"
• 2004 - 2006 Postdoc at the Institute of Zoology at the University of Veterinary Medicine, in Sabine Schmidt's Sensory Biology lab. Implementation of the Habituation-Dishabituation paradigm for bats to investigate the affective social communication in the Indian False vampire bat, Megaderma lyra
• Since 2007 technical staff at the Institute for Music Physiology and Musician's Medicine

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