Director
| Personal data | |
| Name: | Wolf Singer |
| Date of birth: | March 9, 1943 |
| Place of birth: | Munich, Germany |
| Nationality: | German |
| 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 |
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Upcoming Lectures and Events
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18 May 2021
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Connecting Brains Lecture by Jee Hyun Kim (School of Medicine, IMPACT, the Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia)Title: A cross-species approach to understand adolescent vulnerability to mental disorder... [more] |
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19 May 2021
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Neuroscience Online Lecture by Sten Grillner (Nobel institute for neurophysiology Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska institute, Stockholm)Title: The computational logics of networks in motion - from evolutionarily conserved fore... [more] |
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26 May 2021
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Neuroscience Online Lecture by Nathalie Rochefort (Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh)Title: Neocortex saves energy by reducing coding precision during food scarcity [more] |
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08 June 2021
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Connecting Brains Lecture by Tomoki Fukai (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), Okinawa, Japan)Title: t.b.a. [more] |
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10 June 2021
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mpibr External Postdoctoral Seminar Concatenations by Silvana Valtcheva (NYU, New York))Title: Hypothalamic circuits for oxytocin release and maternal behavior [more] |
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