Profile

Daniel Mietchen
Set up a <a href="http://ways.org/en/blogs/2010/jun/18/im_a_scientist_and_the_beryllium_fraud">Beryllium treasure hunt</a> open for students from all zones. Good luck!
Curriculum Vitae
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Education
Five schools across Germany between 1981 and 1994. Latest one: <a href="http://www.archenhold.de/">Archenhold-Oberschule, Berlin</a>. -
Qualifications
1991-2003: Maths, Biophysics, Medicine, Central Asian, Korean and Japanese studies in Berlin (<a href="http://www.hu-berlin.de/">HU</a> and <a href="http://www.fu-berlin.de/">FU</a>), <a href="http://www.tohoku.ac.jp/">Sendai</a>, <a href="http://www.ijm.fr/">Paris</a>, <a href="http://www.uni-duisburg.de/">Duisburg</a> and Sana’a. <a href="http://dbm.neuro.uni-jena.de/pdf-daniel/Mietchen_2001_Temperature_automated_electrorotation_Diplom.pdf">Diploma</a> (Biophysics) in 2001, <a href="http://dbm.neuro.uni-jena.de/pdf-daniel/Mietchen_2006_single-cell_MRI_fossils_cryo_PhD.pdf">PhD</a> (Physics) 2006. -
Work History
2001-2007: <a href="http://www.kbsi.re.kr/"> Korea Basic Science Institute</a> in Daejeon, Republic of Korea; <a href="http://www.ibmt.fraunhofer.de/">Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering</a> in St. Ingbert, Germany; <a href="http://www.cbs.mpg.de/">Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences</a> in Leipzig, Germany. -
Current Job
Postdoc in <a href="http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Brain_morphometry">brain morphometry</a>. -
Employer
Since 2007: University of Jena.
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Favourite thing to do in my job: The dialogues with <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHPQZQGKJ5M">nature</a> or its symbolic representations. Seeing it in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch#%21v=HIjMHFbqBrY">action</a>, considering <a href="http://axilone.com/legault/iss_atlantis_transit_2010.html">our place</a> in it, and the storm of endorphines you get when you understand why things worked out the way they did.
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My Work: I <a href="http://frontiersin.org/neuroinformatics/paper/10.3389/neuro.11/025.2009/">analyze brain scans</a> to detect structural changes over time or between groups, with a focus on schizophrenia and evolution: What is the relation between the <a href="http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Brain_size">size</a> and <a href="http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Gyrification">folding</a> of a brain?
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In general, much of my work as a scientist has been focused on applying methods from physics to the study of biological structures and processes from a comparative evolutionary perspective. For an example, read about the origins of my Twitter avatar.
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My Typical Day: I <a href="http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Skull_stripping">strip digital brains</a> of their skulls, <a href="http://vimeo.com/3294632">inflate</a> and <a href="http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Surface-based_morphometry">compare</a> them.
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What I'd do with the prize money: I would use it to stimulate <a href="http://researchblogging.org/">research blogging</a> on <a href="http://friendfeed.com/chordoma">neglected</a> <a href="http://friendfeed.com/science-in-the-long-run">topics</a>.
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My reply here caused an error for being too long, so I turned it into a reply to What would you spend the prize money on?
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My Interview
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How would you describe yourself in 3 words?
<a href="http://ways.org/en/blogs/2009/jun/29/what_would_science_look_like_if_it_were_invented_today">What would science</a>
What did you want to be after you left school?
A researcher in biophysics or a physician in a developing country.
Were you ever in trouble at school?
A number of teachers and class mates certainly thought so on occasion.
Who is your favourite singer or band?
I prefer music which does not require electricity to be performed. A good example is the throat-singing of the group <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBKb4HKSfoU">AltaiKai</a>.
What is the most fun thing you've done?
One of the most exciting moments was performing <a href="http://home.arcor.de/tschiltan/musik/tschiltan_mastimastum.mp3">traditional Central Asian music</a> with <a href="http://tschiltan.de/">my band</a> in the heart of Central Asia – on the <a href="http://wondergetaways.com/wp-content/thumbnails/556.jpg">Registan Square</a> in Samarqand, Usbekistan. You can get an idea about that from <a href="http://bit.ly/Tschiltan-video">this trailer</a>, with video graphics imitating the style of Uzbek TV.
If you had 3 wishes for yourself what would they be? - be honest!
(1) A life that is balanced between work, family, hobbies, health and environmental footprint, (2) a long-term research grant with no strings attached, (3) more occasions to actually use foreign languages.
Tell us a joke.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7DkeQ0roAM">Schrödinger’s cat walks into a bar … and doesn’t.</a>
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My profile link:
https://ias.im/u.1457
Comments
You are in space, have 40 minutes of oxygen left. how will you use your time?? (1 comments)
And the winner is... (1 comments)
why is it we no more about space than under the sea (2 comments)
if you castrate guinea pigs does it make a diffrance to the behaviour ? (1 comments)
And the second scientist to leave is... (1 comments)
is it hard being a scientist? (2 comments)
If I was to become a scientist what advice would you give me? (2 comments)
why is the sky and the sea blue ?? (1 comments)
what might happen to the world in a cuple of years or so? (4 comments)
i would like to ask why you are doing the investigation is it because you like it or are you doing it for personal or (1 comments)