Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Katrin Franke

Stanford Medicine
318 Campus Drive, 93405 Stanford, CA, US
Email: kafranke(at)stanford.edu

09/2012 – 12/2016: Dr. rer. nat., Graduate School of Neural and Behavioural Neuroscience, International Max Planck Research School, Tübingen University (summa cum laude)
06/2014 – 08/2014: Summer School “Neural Systems and Behavior”, MBL Woods Hole, USA
10/2010 – 08/2012: M. Sc., Graduate School of Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Tübingen University (with distinction)
10/2007 – 09/2010: B. Sc. Biology, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart

08/2024 - now: Group Leader at Enigma Project, Stanford University, Palo Alto, US
04/2024 - now: Senior Research Scientist, Stanford University, Palo Alto, US
11/2022 – 03/2024: Research Assistant Professor, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, US
01/2021 – 10/2022: Research Group Leader, Institute for Ophthalmic Research & Center for Integrative Neuroscience, Tübingen Germany
01/2017 – 12/2020: Early Career Group Leader, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience & Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen Germany

2024: Featured on #InnovativeWomen
2023: Starting Grant of the European Research Council (ERC; 1.8 million €)
2022: Member of the EMBO Young Investigator Program (4 years)
2021: Offer for W3 (full) professorship Saarland University
2021: Shortlisted for W3 (full) professorship Göttingen University
2021: Schilling Award of the German Neuroscience Society
2021: List of Women in European Vision Research, European Vision Institute
2020 – 2024: PI in CRC 1233 “Robust vision” (466k € with Prof. Ziad Hafed)
2020: Researcher in Focus, European Vision Institute
2017: Early Career Research Group (378k €) Bernstein Center Tübingen
2017: Nemko Price in Cellular or Molecular Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience
2015: Young Investigator Award, European Retina Meeting

2024: Invited talk, Bay Area Vision Research Day, Berkeley, US
2024: Invited talk, European Vision and Cognition Meeting, Montecastelli Pisano, Italy
2024: Invited talk, Neuroscience Seminar Series, Washington University, St. Louis, US
2023: Invited talk, Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society, Sendai, Japan
2023: Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience, Cambridge, UK
2023: Invited talk, Bernstein Conference Workshops, Berlin, Germany
2023: Department Seminar, UTH, Houston, US
2023: Department Seminar, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
2022: Invited talk, Plasticity and Dynamics in the Visual System, Rehovot, Israel
2023: Department Seminar, Sussex University, Brighton, UK
2021: Schilling Award Lecture, Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society, Goettingen, Germany
2020: Invited online talk, World Wide Neuro
2019: Invited talk, European Retina Meeting (ERM), Helsinki, Finland
2019: Invited perspective talk, Janelia Farm Spring Conferences, Ashburn, US
2017: Invited talk, European Retina Meeting, Paris, France
2017: ARVO Asia Meeting, Brisbane, Australia
2015: Contributed talk, European Retina Meeting, Brighton, UK
2015: ARVO Annual Meeting, Denver, USA

2024: Co-Spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Center "Robust Vision", Tübingen University
2023: Organizer and Chair of Minisymposium at SfN Meeting 2023, Chicago, US
2020 – 2022: Member of the Education Board for M.Sc. program “Neural Information Processing”, Graduate Training Center of Neuroscience, Tübingen University
2019 – present: Reviewer for Scientific Reports, Science, eLife, & Journal of Experimental Biology, EMBO scholarships
2016 – 2022: Member of the Student Selection Board, Graduate Training Center of Neuroscience, Tübingen University