Professor Martin Giese receives a "Synergy Grant" from the European Research Council (ERC). Together with colleagues at the KU Leuven and the University of Maastricht, he will investigate how our brain analyzes body language for non-verbal communication in the project "How body relevant drives brain organization" (RELEVANCE). "We hope that a better understanding of brain processes will contribute to improved systems for the simulation and analysis of body signals in the field of artificial intelligence and virtual reality," Giese explains. At the HIH he heads the Section for Computational Sensomotorics, which combines theoretical neuroscience with applications in biomedical technology. The ERC is funding the project for a period of five years with a total of eight million euros, of which around 2.7 million euros are earmarked for the work of the Tübingen team. The “Synergy Grants” are considered the most competitive applications in the prestigious funding program of the ERC. It was only last year that a HIH research team obtained a "Synergy Grant".
