• Introduction to scientific computing and statistics (4201) 
• Practical course on animal physiology
• Practical course "Grosspraktikum" of the neurobiology master's programme
• Excurison to Slovenia
• Models of neural systems

Education & Positions
1991 - 1997 Diploma in Physics, University of Oldenburg, Germany.
1998 - 2002 Ph.D. Biophysics (Dr. rer. nat.), Humboldt University Berlin, Germany.
2002 - 2004 PostDoc, University of Ottawa, Canada.
2004 - 2008 PostDoc, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany.
2006 Guest Scientist, University of Ottawa, Canada.
2008 - 2013 Junior Research Group Leader, LMU Munich, Germany.
2012 - Professor for Neuroethology, University of Tubingen, Germany.

Awards
2008 Bernstein Award Computational Neuroscience, 1 250 000e (BMBF).

Administrative Functions
2016 - DFG Fachkollegium 206
2016 - Editor in Chief Springer Bookseries \Bernstein Series Computational Neuroscience"

• Jörg Henninger, Rüdiger Krahe, Frank Kirschbaum, Jan Grewe, Jan Benda (2018)
  Statistics of natural communication signals observed in the wild identify important yet neglected stimulus regimes in weakly electric fish. J. Neurosci. url
   
• Grewe J, Kruscha A, Lindner B, Benda J (2017) Synchronous spikes are necessary but not sucient for a synchrony code in populations of spiking neurons. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 114: E1977-E1985.
   
• Presern J, Skorjanc A, Rodic T, Benda J (2016) A single mechanism driving both inactivation and adaptation in rapidly adapting currents of DRG neurons? Biol. Cybern. 110: 393-401.
   
• Hildebrandt KJ, Ronacher B, Hennig RM, Benda J (2015) A neural mechanism for time-window separation resolves ambiguity of adaptive coding. PLoS Biol. 13: e1002096.
   
• Stöckl A, Sinz F, Benda J, Grewe J (2014) Encoding of social signals in all three electrosensory pathways of Eigenmannia virescens. J. Neurophysiol. 112: 2076-2091.
   
• Walz H, Grewe J, Benda J (2014) Static frequency tuning accounts for changes in neural synchrony evoked by transient communication signals. J. Neurophysiol. 112: 752-765.
   
• Fisch K, Schwalger T, Lindner B, Herz AVM, Benda J (2012) Channel noise from both slow adaptation currents and fast currents is required to explain spike-response variability in a sensory neuron. J. Neurosci. 32: 17332-17344.
   
• Hildebrandt KJ, Benda J, Hennig RM (2011) Multiple arithmetic operations in a single neuron: the recruitment of adaptation processes in the cricket auditory pathway depends on sensory context. J. Neurosci. 31: 14142-14150.
   
• Benda J, Maler L, Longtin A (2010) Linear versus nonlinear signal transmission in neuron models with adaptation-currents or dynamic thresholds. J. Neurophysiol. 104: 2806-2820.
   
• Hildebrandt KJ, Benda J, Hennig RM (2009) The origin of adaptation in the auditory pathway of locusts is speci c to cell type and function. J. Neurosci. 29: 2626-2636.
   
• Benda J, Longtin A, Maler L (2005) Spike-frequency adaptation separates transient communication signals from background oscillations. J. Neurosci. 25: 2312-2321.
   
• Benda J, Herz AVM (2003) A universal model for spike-frequency adaptation. Neural Comput. 15: 2523-2564.