Curriculum Vitae
Born 18th August 1957 in Bad Neustadt an der Saale, Germany.
Studies of Biology, Universität Würzburg, Germany (1976-1981).
PhD with Martin Heisenberg, Universität Würzburg, Germany (1984).
Research Assistant, Max Planck Institute of Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen (1984-1993).
Junior Group Leader at the FML, Tübingen (1993-1999).
Professor at UC Berkeley (1999-2001).
Director, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried (since 2001), now Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence.
Honors and awards
- Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Gesellschaft, 1986
- Dupont Lecturer, Tucson, 2001
- Erasmus Lecturer, Rotterdam, 2003
- Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Awardee, 2006
- Director's Lecture, NIH, 2010
- Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, 2011
- Member of EMBO, 2011
- Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, 2012
- Adrian Lecturer, Cambridge, 2012
- FENS Award, 2014
- Valentino Braitenberg Award in Computational Neurobiology, 2014
- Member of HHMI Scientific Advisory Board, 2018