Hans Scherberger received his Master in Mathematics (1993) and his Medical Doctor (1996) from Freiburg University, Germany. He currently heads the Neurobiology Lab at the German Primate Center and is Professor for Primate Neurobiology at Göttingen University (since 2008). He was trained in systems electrophysiology at the University of Zurich (1995-1998) and the California Institute of Technology (1998-2003) before leading a research group at the Institute of Neuroinformatics at Zurich University and ETH (2004-2009). His research focuses on neural coding and decoding of hand movements and their interactions with sensory systems.