Gernot Riedel

Gernot currently holds a Chair in Systems Neuroscience at Aberdeen, UK. He was an undergraduate in Darmstadt and obtained a PhD in Mainz, before working as a post-doctoral research fellow in Magdeburg (Germany), York (England) and Edinburgh (Scotland). In 1998, he accepted a position in Aberdeen. In addition, he also is honorary Professor at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina - USA, and the Nencki Institute, Warsaw – Poland. Gernot is an active member of numerous editorial boards of journals publishing behavioural science, has edited a number of special issues on selective topics related to cognition and has contributed >100 scientific publications. He is ad hoc reviewer for grant funding bodies in many European countries and organiser of symposia at international meetings (see Measuring Behavior 2010).

To date, the central research focus concerns mechanisms for memory formation in animals (episodic, motor, habit), and how this knowledge can be translated to human disease. Consequently, the research group has established novel genetic and pharmacological models of major neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders with cognitive dysfunction (Alzheimer, Parkinson, schizophrenia, depression, autism, Rett, obsessive-compulsive) and these are investigated using behavioural, cellular, biochemical, physiological and imaging endpoints in vivo and in vitro. A recent addition to this portfolio is the development of innovative wireless EEG devices for mice and the examination of sleep and sleep anomalies as biomarkers for neurological diseases.