Funding
The Wichmann-lab was involved in the acquisition of the following small and large-scale grants, and its research has received financial support from the following funding agencies, either through grants or ad-hominem scholarships:
| 2020-2023 | Innovation Fund Project within the Cluster of Excellence EXC 2064: Machine Learning: New Perspectives for Science of the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen and the MPI für Intelligente Systeme. |
| 2019-2024 | PI of the Cluster of Excellence EXC 2064: Machine Learning: New Perspectives for Science of the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen and the MPI für Intelligente Systeme. |
| 2018-2019 | SMARTSTART 2, Joint Training Program in Computational Neuroscience, funded by the Bernstein Network as well as the Volkswagen Stiftung and awarded to Jan Lause. | |
 | 2018-2019 | DFG Project WI2103/4-3, Die Integration von früher Sehverarbeitung, Salienzmodellen und Blicksteuerung: Experimente, Modellierung und räumliche Statistik with Prof. Engbert |
 | 2018-2019 | Promotionsstipendium nach dem Landesgraduiertenförderungsgesetz (LGFG) awarded to Bernhard Lang |
 | 2018 | Graduate Training Centre of Neuroscience (GTC) / International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience. Bridging fund for a doctoral position at the GTC Tübingen awarded to Bernhard Lang |
 | 2017-2020 | Member of the IKT 2020 "Graduate Training Center Machine Learning” in Tübingen funded by the BMBF. |
| 2017-2023 | Faculty Member of the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Intelligent Systems. The IMPRS is run by the Max-Planck-Institut for Intelligente Systems together with the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen as well as the Universität Stuttgart |
| 2017-2020 | DFG Project SFB1233, Teilprojekt 6, Top-down control of visual inference in sensory representations in early visual cortex with Dr. Nienborg and Dr. Macke |
| 2017-2020 | DFG Project SFB1233, Teilprojekt 4, Causal inference strategies in human vision with Prof. Schölkopf |
| 2017-2020 | Principal Investigator of the DFG SFB 1233 Robust Vision |
| 2016-2017 | Graduate Training Centre of Neuroscience (GTC) / International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience. Bridging fund for a doctoral position at the GTC Tübingen awarded to Johanna Salu |
 | 2016 | Investitions- und Infrastrukturfonds of the Universität Tübingen for a number of GPU compute servers with Prof.’s Bringmann, Butz, Grust, Lensch, Schilling and Zell |
| 2014-2017 | DFG Project WI2103/4-1, Die Integration von früher Sehverarbeitung, Salienzmodellen und Blicksteuerung: Experimente, Modellierung und räumliche Statistik with Prof. Engbert |
 | 2013-2015 | Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Postdoctoral research stipend awarded to Dr. Tom Wallis |
| 2011-2015 | Principal Investigator of the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Tübingen, Project Neural Information Processing, BMBF Förderkennzeichen 01 GQ 1002A |
| 2010-2015 | Principal Investigator of the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin. Project B3 Perceptual Stability in the Face of Input Variability: Machine Learning of Critical Features with Prof. Engbert, BMBF Förderkennzeichen 01 GQ 1001B |
| 2010-2012 | Principal Investigator of the DFG GRK 1598 Sensory Computation in Neural Systems |
| 2009-2012 | DFG Project FR2854/1-1, Untersuchung der Variabilität von Wahrnehmungsprozessen durch Kombination von Signalentdeckungstheorie und Redaktionszeit with Dr. Fründ |
| 2008-2013 | Principal Investigator of the Bernstein Focus Neurotechnology Berlin. Project A4 Rapid brain-guided recognition of objects in broadband sensor data with Prof. Obermayer and Dr. Lüschow, BMBF Förderkennzeichen 01 GQ 0850 |
| 2007-2012 | Principal Investigator of the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin. Project A6 Modelling of Cognitive Processes, BMBF Förderkennzeichen 01 GQ 0414 |
| 2003-2006 | DFG Project WI2103/1, Wahrnehmung natürlicher Szenen with |
 | 2000-2001 | Fund for Scientific-Research-Flanders (FWO) Visiting Fellowship |
 | 1998-2001 | Fellowship by Examination, Magdalen College, Oxford |
 | 1994-1998 | Wellcome Trust Mathematical Biology Studentship |
 | 1994-1997 | Jubilee Scholarship, St. Hugh's College, Oxford |
 | 1992-1997 | Scholar of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes |
 | 1992-1994 | Scholar of University College, Oxford |
