{{short description|German physicist and neuro-informatic (born 1962)}} {{BLP sources|date=August 2023}} '''Thomas Martinetz''' (born 2 January 1962 in Nettesheim) is a German physicist and neuro-informatician.
== Life == Thomas Martinetz studied mathematics and physics at the Technical University of Munich, where he earned his doctorate in theoretical biophysics under Klaus Schulten in 1992 after several years as a guest at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.<ref>{{cite web |title=Thomas Martinetz |url=https://www.mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=239246 |website=Mathematics Genealogy Project |access-date=30 December 2022}}</ref> After working in the central research and development department of Siemens AG, in 1996 he moved to a professorship at the Institute for Neuroinformatics of the Ruhr University Bochum and took over the management of the Center for Neuroinformatics GmbH. In 1999 he accepted a call to the University of Lübeck as director of the Institute for Neuro- and Bioinformatics. From 2006 to 2008 he was Vice-Rector of the University of Lübeck, and from 2008 to 2011 Vice-President for Research and Technology Transfer. Since 2013 he is chairman of the Senate of the University of Lübeck.
His major contribution in the field of neuroinformatics is the so-called Neural gas, a variant of self-organizing maps.
He is co-founder of the software companies Consideo, the Pattern Recognition Company and gestigon.
== Awards == The Center for Neuroinformatics GmbH, whose management he took over in 1996, was awarded in the same year with the Innovation Award of the German economy. awarded him as a "courageous entrepreneur", and in 2011 he received the transfer award of the Innovation Foundation Schleswig-Holstein.
== Publications == * {{cite conference |title=A "neural gas" network learns topologies |book-title=Artificial Neural Networks |author=Thomas Martinetz and Klaus Schulten |publisher=Elsevier |year=1991 |pages=397–402 |url=http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Publications/Papers/PDF/MART91B/MART91B.pdf }} * {{cite journal | last1=Martinetz | first1=T.M. | last2=Berkovich | first2=S.G. | last3=Schulten | first3=K.J. | title='Neural-gas' network for vector quantization and its application to time-series prediction | journal=IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks | publisher=Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | volume=4 | issue=4 | year=1993 | issn=1045-9227 | doi=10.1109/72.238311 | pages=558–569| pmid=18267757 }} * {{cite journal | last1=Martinetz | first1=Thomas | last2=Schulten | first2=Klaus | title=Topology representing networks | journal=Neural Networks | publisher=Elsevier BV | volume=7 | issue=3 | year=1994 | issn=0893-6080 | doi=10.1016/0893-6080(94)90109-0 | pages=507–522}}
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