Ernst Niebur is a professor of neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and a professor of psychological and brain sciences at the Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. His research examines neuronal function at the system level focusing particularly on a function known as selective attention, which is the capability of humans and higher animals to scan sensory input for the most important information and to discard other non-essential information.
Niebur received his bachelor’s and master’s from the University of Dortmund in West Germany and was awarded his PhD at Universite de Lausanne in Switzerland. He also received a certificate in artificial intelligence from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL). He has authored or co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and his work has been cited more than 25,000 times.