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63
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15928
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2455
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987

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

David J. Hofmann was affiliated with the University of Wyoming in the United States. Their research primarily focused on the field of Neuroscience, with a significant emphasis on subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Sociology and Political Science, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, and Biomedical Engineering.

Their research work covered a variety of topics, including:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Economic and Social Issues
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
  • Stochastic dynamics and bifurcation
  • Muscle activation and electromyography studies

David J. Hofmann contributed to academic literature through numerous publications. Some of their recent papers included:

  • Ultrafast population coding and axo-somatic compartmentalization, 2022, published in PLoS Computational Biology
  • Estimating muscle activation from EMG using deep learning-based dynamical systems models, 2022, Journal of Neural Engineering
  • Brain and body energy metabolism and potential for treatment of psychiatric disorders, 2025, Nature Mental Health
  • Upper-limit agricultural dietary exposure to streptomycin in the laboratory reduces learning and foraging in bumblebees, 2022, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Estimating muscle activation from EMG using deep learning-based dynamical systems models, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Their frequent co-authors included Ulrich Petschow, Lilianne R. Mujica-Parodi, Thomas Korbun, Sophia I. Thomopoulos, and Jonathan Ipser.

David J. Hofmann published extensively in several venues, notably:

  • Ökologisches Wirtschaften - Fachzeitschrift
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLoS Computational Biology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Neural Engineering

During their career, Hofmann received recognition as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2006.

Best Publications

  • Climate Forcing by Anthropogenic Aerosols

    R. J. Charlson;S. E. Schwartz;J. M. Hales;R. D. Cess

  • Ozone destruction through heterogeneous chemistry following the eruption of El Chichón

    David J. Hofmann;Susan Solomon

  • Thirty years of in situ stratospheric aerosol size distribution measurements from Laramie, Wyoming (41°N), using balloon-borne instruments

    T. Deshler;M. E. Hervig;D. J. Hofmann;J. M. Rosen

  • Increase in lower-stratospheric water vapour at a mid-latitude Northern Hemisphere site from 1981 to 1994

    S. J. Oltmans;D. J. Hofmann

  • The increase in stratospheric water vapor from balloonborne, frostpoint hygrometer measurements at Washington, D.C., and Boulder, Colorado

    Samuel J. Oltmans;Holger Vömel;David J. Hofmann;Karen H. Rosenlof

  • Increase in the stratospheric background sulfuric acid aerosol mass in the past 10 years.

    D. J. Hofmann

  • Pinatubo and pre-Pinatubo optical-depth spectra: Mauna Loa measurements, comparisons, inferred particle size distributions, radiative effects, and relationship to lidar data

    P. B. Russell;J. M. Livingston;E. G. Dutton;R. F. Pueschel

  • The role of carbon dioxide in climate forcing from 1979 to 2004: introduction of the Annual Greenhouse Gas Index

    D. J. Hofmann;J. H. Butler;E. J. Dlugokencky;J. W. Elkins

  • Balloonborne measurements of the Pinatubo aerosol size distribution and volatility at Laramie, Wyoming during the summer of 1991

    T. Deshler;D. J. Hofmann;B. J. Johnson;W. R. Rozier

  • Stratospheric sulfuric acid fraction and mass estimate for the 1982 volcanic eruption of El Chichon

    D. J. Hofmann;J. M. Rosen

  • Stratospheric Aerosol Measurements III: Optical Model Calculations

    R. G. Pinnick;J. M. Rosen;D. J. Hofmann

  • Balloon-borne observations of the development and vertical structure of the Antarctic ozone hole in 1986

    D. J. Hofmann;J. W. Harder;S. R. Rolf;J. M. Rosen

  • Increase in background stratospheric aerosol observed with lidar at Mauna Loa Observatory and Boulder, Colorado

    David Hofmann;David Hofmann;John Barnes;Michael O'Neill;Michael O'Neill;Michael Trudeau;Michael Trudeau

  • Stratospheric cloud observations during formation of the Antarctic ozone hole in 1989

    D. J. Hofmann;T. Deshler

  • Stratospheric aerosol measurements. I - Time variations at northern midlatitudes

    D. J. Hofmann;J. M. Rosen;T. J. Pepin;R. G. Pinnick

  • Midlatitude lidar backscatter to mass, area, and extinction conversion model based on in situ aerosol measurements from 1980 to 1987.

    Horst Jäger;David Hofmann

  • Ozone loss in the lower stratosphere over the United States in 1992-1993: Evidence for heterogeneous chemistry on the Pinatubo aerosol

    D. J. Hofmann;S. J. Oltmans;W. D. Komhyr;J. M. Harris

  • Four decades of ozonesonde measurements over Antarctica

    Susan Solomon;Robert W. Portmann;Toru Sasaki;David J. Hofmann

  • Trends in stratospheric and free tropospheric ozone

    N. R. P. Harris;G. Ancellet;L. Bishop;D. J. Hofmann

  • The evolution of the dehydration in the Antarctic stratospheric vortex

    H. Vömel;S. J. Oltmans;D. J. Hofmann;T. Deshler

  • Ten years of ozonesonde measurements at the south pole: Implications for recovery of springtime Antarctic ozone

    D. J. Hofmann;S. J. Oltmans;J. M. Harris;B. J. Johnson

Frequent Co-Authors

Terry Deshler
Terry Deshler University of Wyoming
M. P. McCormick
M. P. McCormick Langley Research Center
Frank Arnold
Frank Arnold Max Planck Society
Richard McKenzie
Richard McKenzie National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Ellsworth G. Dutton
Ellsworth G. Dutton Earth System Research Laboratory
David W. Fahey
David W. Fahey National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
James B. Pollack
James B. Pollack Ames Research Center
Owen B. Toon
Owen B. Toon University of Colorado Boulder
Yasunobu Iwasaka
Yasunobu Iwasaka University of Shiga Prefecture

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