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 coordination1998–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.