Director
Education | |
1962 - 1964 | Study of Medicine at Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU), Munich |
1964 - 1965 | Medicine at Sorbonne, Troisième Cycle de Neurophysiologie, Faculté des Sciences, Paris |
1965 - 1968 | Continuation of medical studies at LMU, Munich |
1966 - 1968 | Thesis at the MPI for Psychiatry, Munich, Supervisor Prof. O. Creutzfeldt |
1968 | State Examination in Medicine and Defense of MD Thesis at LMU Munich: |
"The role of telencephalic commissures in bilateral EEG-synchrony" | |
1969 - 1970 | Clinical stages at University Hospital LMU Munich to obtain approbation |
1970 | Approbation as General Physician, part time work as MD until 1980 |
1975 | Habilitation for Physiology at the Medical Faculty, Technical University, Munich |
Professional Experience | |
1971 | Postdoc, Dept. Psychology, University of Sussex |
1972 - 1975 | Postdoc position at the MPI for Psychiatry with Prof. H.D. Lux |
1972 | Offer of the Chair for Human Neurobiology, University Bielefeld, Germany |
1972 - 1981 | Lecturer for Neurophysiology at the Technical University Munich, Dept. Informatics |
Lecturer for Physiology at the Technical University Munich in the Curriculum „Medicine“ | |
1972 - 1981 | Member of the special research field SFB Cybernetics, funded by the German Research Society (DFG) |
1975 | Part time appointment as MD at the Neurology Ward, MPI for Psychiatry, Munich |
1975 - 1981 | Independent group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry, Munich |
1976 | Offer of chair at the Brain Research Institute at University of Zurich, Switzerland |
1980 | Professor for Physiology at Technical University, Munich |
1981 - 2011 | Director at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Dept. of Neurophysiology, Frankfurt, Germany |
2003 | Guest Professorship at the Collège de France, Paris, France |
2004 - pres. | Founding Director of the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), Frankfurt |
2004 - pres. | Founding Co-Director of the Brain Imaging Center (BIC), Frankfurt |
2006 - pres. | Founding Director of the Ernst Strüngmann Forum (former Dahlem Conference), Frankfurt |
2008 - pres. | Founding Director of the Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, Frankfurt |
4/2011 - pres. | Emeritus Status at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research |
4/2011 - pres. | Senior Fellow at the Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society |
Interactive
Upcoming Lectures and Events
04 March 2021
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mpibr External Postdoctoral Seminar Concatenations by Heike Blockus (Columbia University (New York)Title: Synaptogenic activity of the axon guidance molecule Robo2 is critical for hippocamp... [more] |
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10 March 2021
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Neuroscience Online Lecture by Ilaria Testa (Advanced Optical Bio-Imaging Laboratory Science for Life Laboratory, KTH Karolinska Institutet Science Park, Stockholm)Title: A new look in the interior of cells with 3D MoNaLISA nanoscopy [more] |
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30 March 2021
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Connecting Brains Lecture by André Fenton (New York University, New York, USA)Title: Learning to Learn, across biological scales [more] |
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31 March 2021
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Neuroscience Lecture by Emily Osterweil (Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences University of Edinburgh)Title: The long and short of altered translation in Fragile X [more] |
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07 April 2021
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Neuroscience Online Lecture by Naoshige Uchida (Center for Brain Science, Harvard University Cambridge, USA)Title: Diversity of dopamine neurons: multiple axes and vector prediction errors [more] |
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