Main Focus

  • Interdisciplinary gerontology
  • Neuroscience
  • Editorial projects
  • Scientific coordination

Project

Berlin Aging Studies (BASE Project head)

Curriculum Vitae

Education

1993    Dr. med. (MD), Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität Frankfurt/Main

1992    "Approbation" (Medical license), Hamburg

1992–1993    Postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt/Main (Wolf Singer)

1989–1992    Predoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt/Main (Wolf Singer)

1988    Drittes Staatsexamen (final medical exam), Universität Hamburg

1984–1988    Medical School, Universität Hamburg

1982–1984    Medical School, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

Professional Positions

1998–present    Research scientist position at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development: Editing and coordination

1998–present    Berlin Aging Study (BASE): Project head

2010–present    International Max Planck Research School on the Life Course (LIFE), Newsletter editor

2010–2012    Coordination of IMPRS LIFE

2001–2005    Coordination of IMPRS LIFE

1998–2001    Editorial coordination of the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences; Eds.-in-Chief: Neil J. Smelser & Paul B. Baltes, 2001 (1st ed., 26 vols., Elsevier)

1998–2000    Coordination of German-American Frontiers of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (GAFOSS) symposia held in March 1999 (Dölln) and March 2000 (Stone Mountain, Georgia, USA); Senior Advisor: Karl Ulrich Mayer

1993–1998    Scientific editor, Berlin Aging Study (BASE) at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (funded by Berlin Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft und Forschung, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften)

Selected Publications

  • Delius, J. D., & Delius, J. A. M. (2019). Systematic analysis of pigeons’ discrimination of pixelated stimuli: A hierarchical pattern recognition system is not identifiable. Scientific Reports, 9, 13929. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-50212-1
  • Müller, V., Delius, J. A. M., & Lindenberger, U. (2019). Hyper-frequency network topology changes during choral singing. Frontiers in Physiology, 10: 207. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2019.00207
  • Delius, J. D., Delius, J. A. M., & Lee, J. M. (2017). Symmetry recognition by pigeons: Generalized or not? PLoS ONE, 12(11): e0187541. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0187541
  • Delius, J. A. M., Düzel, S., Gerstorf, D., & Lindenberger, U. (2017). Berlin Aging Studies (BASE and BASE-II). In N. A. Pachana (Ed.), Encyclopedia of geropsychology (pp. 386–395). New York: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-082-7_44
  • Delius, J. D., & Delius, J. A. M. (2012). Intelligences and brains: An evolutionary bird’s eye view. In T. R. Zentall & E. A. Wasserman (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of comparative cognition (pp. 693–717). New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Smith, J., & Delius, J. A. M. (2010). Längsschnittliche Datenerhebungen der Berliner Altersstudie (BASE): Studiendesign, Stichproben und Forschungsthemen 1990–2009. In U. Lindenberger, J. Smith, K. U. Mayer, & P. B. Baltes (Eds.), Die Berliner Altersstudie (3. erw. Aufl., S. 113–131). Berlin: Akademie Verlag.

Editorial Coordination

  • Lindenberger, U., Smith, J., Mayer, K. U., & Baltes, P. B. (Eds.). (2010). Die Berliner Altersstudie (3rd ed.). Berlin: Akademie Verlag.
  • Lindenberger, U., Nehmer, J., Steinhagen-Thiessen, E., Delius, J. A. M., & Schellenbach, M. (Eds.). (2011). Altern und Technik (Altern in Deutschland Bd. 6, Nova Acta Leopoldina NF, 104(368)). Halle (Saale): Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina.
  • Nehmer, J., Lindenberger, U., & Steinhagen-Thiessen, E. (Eds.). (2010). Aging and technology [Special issue]. GeroPsych, 23(2).
  • Brandtstädter, J., & Lindenberger, U. (Eds.). (2007). Entwicklungspsychologie der Lebensspanne: Ein Lehrbuch. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.
  • Baltes, P. B., Reuter-Lorenz, P. A., & Rösler, F. (Eds.). (2006). Lifespan development and the brain: The perspective of biocultural co-constructivism. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Baltes, P. B. (Ed.). (2005). Theoretical approaches to lifespan development: Interdisciplinary perspectives [Special issue]. Research in Human Development, 2(1/2).
  • Smelser, N. J., & Baltes, P. B. (Eds.-in-Chief). (2001). International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences (1st ed., 26 vols.). Oxford: Elsevier.
  • Baltes, P. B., & Mayer, K. U. (Eds.). (1999/2001). The Berlin Aging Study: Aging from 70 to 100. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Mayer, K. U., & Baltes, P. B. (Eds.). (1996/1999). Die Berliner Altersstudie. Berlin: Akademie Verlag.
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