Christian Habeck originally trained as a Particle Physicist, and received his M.Sc degree from the University of Durham, UK, in 1994 and his D.Phil from the University of Sussex, UK, in 1998. He then did a Postdoctoral fellowship at the Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla, CA, performing large-scale computer simulations of biophysically realistic neural networks. Since 2000 he has been in the Cognitive Neuroscience Division of the Taub Institute, Department Of Neurology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, specializing in multivariate approaches to neuroimaging analysis for EEG, PET and MRI data.

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