Head of the chair
Prof. Dr rer. nat. Thorsten O. Zander
Lichtenbergprofessur
Publications Dr Thorsten Zander
Lipezker Straße 47, 03048 Cottbus
Building 9 - Room 9.333
T +49 (0) 355 5818 613
Thorsten.Zander(at)b-tu.de
| 06/2012 - 08/2018 | PostDoc at the Chair of Biological Psychology and Neuroergonomics at TU Berlin |
| 06/2011 - 06/2013 | PostDoc at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen |
| 08/2005 - 08/2010 | Group leader at the Chair of Human-Machine Systems at the TU Berlin |
Prof. Dr Zander conducts research in the field of neuroadaptive human-technology interaction using passive brain-computer interfaces:
- Implicit interaction with technology
- Cognitive exploration for the automated guidance of artificial intelligences
- Ethics of neuroadaptive technologies.
| 2016 | Raja Parasuraman Award Best Senior Researcher of the Neuroergonomics Society, Philadelphia, USA |
| 2013 | Best Poster Award at the Hamlyn Symposium on Medicine and Robotics, London, UK |
| 2011 | Best Dissertation of the Willumeit Foundation, Berlin, Germany |
| 2010 | Best Poster Award at the 4th International BCI meeting, Asilomar, USA |
| 2009 | Best Paper Award at the HCI International 2009, Orlando, USA |
| 2009 | Best-Poster Award at the meeting of the Society of Cognitive Science, Bamberg, Germany |
| 2009 | Best-Poster Award at the BBCI Workshop, Berlin, Germany |
- Associate Editor of the journal Frontiers in Neuroergonomics, Neurotechnology
- Head of the Society for Neuroadaptive Technologies
- Organiser of the NAT 2019 conference, Liverpool, UK, approx. 100 participants, co-chairperson of the programme committee
- Organiser of the NAT 2017 conference, Berlin, Germany, approx. 100 participants, board chairperson of the programme committee
| 07/2020 - 06/2025 | Lichtenberg Professorship Neuroadaptive Human-Technology Interaction of the Volkswagen Foundation |
| 01/2017 - 12/2019 | DFG project An investigation of the potential and limitations of implicit cursor control based on passive brain-computer interfaces |
| 10/2012 - 09/2014 | EU project Brainflight of the Framework 7 |
| 09/2012 - 08/2014 | Project Human Centered Computing of the National Science Foundation (NSF), USA |
[1] Thorsten O Zander, Laurens R Krol, Niels P Birbaumer and Klaus Gramann. Neuroadaptive technology enables implicit cursor control based on medial prefrontal cortex activity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113.52 (2016), pp. 14898-14903.
[2] Thorsten O Zander and Christian Kothe. Towards passive brain-computer interfaces: applying brain-computer interface technology to human-machine systems in general. Journal of neural engineering 8.2 (2011), p. 025005.
[3] Gert Pfurtscheller et al. The hybrid BCI. Frontiers in neuroscience 4 (2010), p. 3.
[4] Thorsten O Zander, Matti Gaertner, Christian Kothe and Roman Vilimek. Combining eye gaze input with a brain-computer interface for touchless human-computer interaction. Intl. Journal of Human-Computer Interaction 27.1 (2010), pp. 38-51.
[5] Thorsten O Zander et al. A dry EEG-system for scientific research and brain-computer interfaces. Frontiers in neuroscience 5 (2011), p. 53.