Memberships (past and present)

Editorial Boards (past, present)

European Journal of Neuroscience (founding and receiving editor)
Experimental Brain Research (receiving editor)
Behavioural Brain Research
Neuronal Networks
Current Opinion in Neurobiology
Concepts in Neuroscience
Cerebral Cortex
Trends in Neuroscience
Trends in Cognitive Neuroscience
Theory in Biosciences
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
Learning and Memory
Annual Review of Neuroscience
Human Brain Mapping
Physiological Reviews
Journal of Neurophysiology
Cognitive Brain Research
Gehirn und Geist

Societies

German Physiological Society
European Neuroscience Association
American Neuroscience Society
International Neuropsychology Symposium
International Society for Neuroethology
International Society for Developmental Neurobiology
International Brain Research Organisation
European Neuroscience Association (Presidency) and Founder of FENS
Federation of the European Neurosciences, Founding Member

Academies

Academia Europaea
Scientific Academy of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt
Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea
Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Founding Member of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Honorary Associate of the Neurosciences Research Program
Member of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Member of the Leopoldina, Halle
Member of Collegium Europaeum Jenense, Jena
Honorary Member of the World Innovation Foundation
Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Consultor of the Pontifical Council for Culture ad quincennium
Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
AAAS Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Member of EMBO excellence in life sciences
Fellow (Foreign Associate) of the National Academy of Sciences, USA
Member of the Council of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences

Scientific Commissions

Secretary European Brain and Behaviour Society
President European Neuroscience Association
Senatsausschuß für Sonderforschungsbereiche, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Evaluierungskommission des Wissenschaftsrates für Neue Bundesländer
Commission des Sciences Cognitives, C.N.R.S., France
Board of Fondation Fyssen
Board of European Science Foundation
Senatsausschuß der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft für Forschungsplanung
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Max Planck Society
Munich Center for Neurosciences - Brain and Mind (MCN LMU)
Sigmund-Freud-Institut (SFI), Frankfurt/Main
Interdisciplinary Center for Neuroscience Frankfurt (ICNF)
Scientific Committee Rhine-Main Neuroscience Network (rmn2)
Chairman of the Commission for Animal Rights Issues of the Max Planck Society
Global Excecutive Committee, The Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives (DABI)

Advisory Boards

"Hochschulrat" of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main
Gemeinnützige Hertie-Stiftung
Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
Volkswagenstiftung
German Primate Center
Advisory Board Member of Research Institutes in Germany, France, Japan
Advisory Board Member Lichtenbergkolleg, Göttingen University
Minerva-Weizmann Committee
RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan
DEC (Dept. d’Etudes Cognitives), ENS, Paris, France
Internal Advisory Board (IAB, Chair) Human Brain Project (HBP)
Advisory board of the SFB 936 "Multi-Site Communication in the Brain"
Ernst Strüngmann Institute, Board of Trustees
Aspen Brain Forum
Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, Board of Trustees
Münchner Kompetenzzentrum Ethik

Prize Committees

Doktor Robert Pfleger-Stiftung
Leibniz Prize, DFG
Familie Hansen-Stiftung
Fondation Fyssen
Gertrud Reemtsma-Stiftung (Zülch Preis)
Foundation IPSEN (chair)