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Daniel Mietchen

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Curriculum Vitae

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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?

  • Read more

    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.

  • 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.

  • 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>.

  • Read more

    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?

  • My Interview

    • 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>

  • My profile link:
    https://ias.im/u.1457

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