Franke, Felix, Dr.

Current Research

Spike sorting of high density multielectrode arrays. Analysis of retinal ganglion cell response properties and neural coding. Statistical signal analysis. Evaluation of spike sorting algorithms.

Education

since 2011 With the Bio Engineering Laboratory (BEL), ETH Zurich
2011 PhD in Computer Science, "Real-Time Analysis of Extracellular Multielectrode Recordings" (download)
2007-2011 Member of the graduate school "Computational Neuroscience" at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN), Berlin
2007-2011 Member of the Neuroinformatics group of Prof. Obermayer, Technische Universität Berlin
2006 M.Sc. Bioinformatics, "Behavior control in time critical multi-agent systems", Freie Universität Berlin
2005 B.Sc. Bioinformatics, "Comparison of spike sorting methods for tetrode data in cluster space", Freie Universität Berlin

Selected Publications

GT Einevoll, F Franke, E Hagen, C Pouzat, KD Harris (2011). „Towards reliable spike-train recordings from thousands of neurons with multielectrodes“. Current Opinion in Neurobiology (link)

F Franke, M Natora, C Boucsein, MH Munk, K Obermayer (2010). "An online spike detection and spike classification algorithm capable of instantaneous resolution of overlapping spikes". J Comput Neurosci (link)

M Block, E Tapia, F Franke (2009). "Java-Intensivkurs: In 14 Tagen lernen Projekte erfolgreich zu realisieren", Springer (Book)