Simon Danner

Simon Danner, PhD

Associate Professor


Department: Neurobiology & Anatomy

Education

  • Doctorate in Engineering Sciences - Vienna University of Technology (2013)
  • MSocEcSc in Computer Science Management - Vienna University of Technology (2011)
  • MSc in Medicine and Computer Science - Vienna University of Technology (2010)
  • BSc in Medicine and Computer Science - Vienna University of Technology (2008)

Awards & Honors

  • Goldberger/Murray/Boyne/Levine Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Drexel University College of Medicine (2021)
  • Reviewer of the year, Journal of Neural Engineering, IOP Publishing, Bristol, U.K. (2019)
  • Visiting scholarship (selected by competition), National Center for Simulation in Rehabilitation Research (NCSRR), Stanford University, Stanford, California, July 16–August 15, 2018
  • Best poster award (1st prize), travel award, and Drexel International Travel Award for the 14th Karniel Computational Motor Control Workshop, Beersheba, Israel (Mar. 13–15, 2018)
  • Researcher of the Month, Medical University of Vienna (March 2016)
  • Young Investigator Award, Austrian Society for Biomedical Engineering (2015)
  • Best poster award (1st prize) and travel award, 2nd Annual Minnesota Neuromodulation Symposium (2014)
  • First prize, student competition, Biomedizinische Technik (2013)
  • Travel award, 22nd Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (2013)
  • Graduate student travel award, Cellular and Network Functions in the Spinal Cord (2012)
  • Advancement award, best master thesis presentation, Austrian Society for Biomedical Engineering at the Medizinische Physik (2011)

Memberships / Professional Affiliations

  • TU-BIOMED
  • International Society for Restorative Neurology
  • Society for Neuroscience
  • Organization for Computational Neuroscience
  • Austrian Society for Biomedical Engineering
  • IEEE

Simon M. Danner, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy at Drexel University College of Medicine.

Research Overview

Research Interests

Computational modeling of neural control of locomotion

Publications

Preprints

Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals

Books/Chapters

Presentations

Invited Lectures

Recent Conference Abstracts


Contact Information


Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy
2900 W. Queen Lane
Philadelphia, PA 19129
Phone: 215.991.8507
Fax: 215.843.9082