[1] He is Head of the Institute of Medical Psychology and the Behavioral Neurobiology department at the University of Tübingen.
[3] In 2017, he received the Oswald-Külpe Award, with the award citation emphasizing that in his "very innovative studies, he was able to prove that it is not REM sleep, but deep sleep that is crucial for the transmission of information to the long-term memory of the brain and thus for memory formation.
He was a research fellow from 1980 to 1981 in the Department of Biological Psychology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
As a graduate student, Born investigated the use of potential-related events in studying brain function in humans.
[8] Born's work has been supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.