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**Prof. Dr. Jan Born**
Prof. Dr. Jan Born, born 1958 is a distinguished German scientist and academic known for his pioneering research in the fields of sleep and memory as well as neuroendocrinology. He currently holds the position of Chair and Director of the Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology at the University of Tübingen, Germany, where he also serves as a Professor (W3). Throughout his career, Prof. Born has made significant contributions to understanding the mechanisms underlying memory consolidation during sleep, the regulation of food intake, and the interactions between hormones and brain function. Together with colleagues at the University of Tübingen, Born is exploring the nuanced complexities of gender/sex-differences within the realm of neuroscience.
**Education and Career:**
Prof. Dr. Jan Born completed his degree in Psychology (Diploma) and also studied Mathematics at the University of Tübingen, Germany, from 1976 to 1980. He then pursued studies in Biological Psychology as a Research Fellow at SUNY at Stony Brook, NY, USA, from 1980 to 1981. In 1985, he earned his Doctorate in Psychology under the mentorship of Prof. Birbaumer at the University of Tübingen.
After completing his doctorate, Prof. Born worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Physiology at the University of Ulm, Germany, from 1985 to 1989, under the supervision of Prof. Pauschinger. He received his Habilitation in Physiology from the University of Ulm in 1989.
From 1989 to 1998, he served as a Professor of Biological Psychology at the University of Bamberg, Germany, and then as a Professor of Neuroendocrinology at the University of Lübeck, Germany, from 1999 to 2010, where he also chaired the department. Since 2010, he has been a Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience and Neuroendocrinology at the University of Tübingen.
**Engagement in the Research System:**
Prof. Born has been an active member of various prestigious scientific organizations and committees. Since 2010, he has been a member of the German Academy of Science – Leopoldina, and since 2006, a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. He has been a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg since 2009.
He has held significant editorial and advisory roles, including serving as Chairman of the Stiftung Leibniz Kolleg in Tübingen since 2012 and as a member of the European Editorial Committee for Physiological Reviews since 2015. He was the speaker of the “Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology” chapter of the German Psychological Society from 1998 to 2008 and has served as Deputy Editor of SLEEP (2010-2016) and Section Editor of Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (2012-2020).
Prof. Born has been an associate editor for the Journal of Sleep Research (2009-2015) and is a member of various editorial boards including Sleep Medicine Reviews, Trends in Neuroscience and Education, and Psychoneuroendocrinology. He regularly reviews for major scientific journals and funding organizations, such as the ERC, DFG, NIH, and high-impact journals like Science, Nature, and Cell.
**Supervision of Researchers in Early Career Phases:**
Prof. Born has mentored numerous students and researchers, guiding them through their diploma/master theses, PhDs, MDs, and Habilitations (postdocs). His members of his lab have received over 15 Young Scientist Awards and multiple former lab members have attained professorships.
**Scientific Results:**
Prof. Born has made significant contributions to neuroscience, particularly in the field of sleep and memory. Some of his recent notable publications include:
1. Contreras MP, Mendez M, Shan X, Fechner J, Sawangjit A, Born J, Inostroza M (2024). Context memory formed in medial prefrontal cortex during infancy enhances learning in adulthood. Nat Comm 15(1): 2475.
2. Brodt S, Inostroza M, Niethard N, Born J (2023) Sleep - a brain-state serving systems memory consolidation. Neuron 111:1050-75.
3. Sawangjit A, Harkotte M, Oyanedel CN, Niethard N, Born J, Inostroza M (2022) Two distinct ways to form long-term object recognition memory during sleep and wakefulness. PNAS 119(34):e2203165119.
4. Friedrich M, Mölle M, Friederici AD, Born J (2021) Sleep-dependent memory consolidation in infants protects new episodic memories from existing semantic memories. Nat Comm 11(1):1298.
**Major Scientific Contributions:**
Prof. Born’s groundbreaking experiments, starting in the early 2000s, demonstrated the causal role of EEG slow oscillations and hippocampal memory reactivations in memory consolidation during sleep. His development of the "active systems consolidation" theory of memory formation during sleep has become a highly influential concept, with key publications in this area receiving thousands of citations. His lab pioneered various methodological approaches, such as intranasal application of peptides, non-invasive brain stimulation to enhance sleep EEG rhythms, and advanced optogenetic and imaging techniques to study microcircuit activity during sleep.
**Academic Distinctions:**
Throughout his distinguished career, Prof. Dr. Jan Born has received numerous prestigious honors and awards for his exceptional contributions to science and academia:
- Since 2010: Member of the German Academy of Science – Leopoldina
- Since 2006: Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
- Since 2009: Corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg
- 2023: Prize of the Feldberg Foundation for Anglo-German Scientific Exchange
- 2017: Oswald Külpe Award of the University of Würzburg, Germany
- 2010: Leibniz Award of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- 1988: Marius Tausk-Award of the German Society for Endocrinology
**Coordinating Functions in Collaborative Grants:**
Prof. Dr. Jan Born has held several pivotal roles in research leadership funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). From 1992 to 1998, he headed the DFG-funded Clinical Research Unit on Neuroendocrinology (FOR161), followed by leadership of the Memory Formation in Sleep Research Unit (FOR457) from 2002 to 2005. He then served as Speaker of the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Center on Plasticity and Sleep (CRC 654) from 2005 to 2017. Currently, he leads the Research Unit (FOR 5434) exploring Information Abstraction During Sleep, since 2023. Additionally, he received an ERC Advanced Grant (GA:883098) in 2020 for his pioneering work on "Sleep Balancing Abstraction and Forgetting of Memory." These roles underscore his influential contributions to advancing sleep research and cognitive neuroscience.
**Keynotes and Plenary Talks:**
Prof. Born has delivered numerous keynote and plenary talks at prestigious conferences and meetings worldwide. Notable talks include:
- 2023: World Sleep Congress (Rio de Janeiro)
- 2023: RPU Science Day, University of Helsinki (Helsinki)
- 2021: Annual meeting of the Canadian Sleep Society (Vancouver)
- 2021: Sleep Grand Rounds, Harvard Medical School (Boston)
- 2020: FENS Forum (Glasgow)
- 2019: Swiss Society of Sleep Research, Sleep Medicine and Chronobiology (Fribourg)
- 2019: Gordon Research Conferences on “Cognitive Dysfunction and Brain Disease” (Hong Kong)
- 2017: Annual meeting of the Italian Association of Sleep Medicine (Bolzano)
- 2017: Annual meeting of the French Sleep Research Society (Marseille)
- 2016: Gordon Research Conferences on "Sleep Regulation and Function" (Galveston)
**External Links:**
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- [lab/group website]
- [LinkedIn]
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- [Google Scholar]
- [Research Gate]
- [curriculum vitae - [pdf/english]