Curriculum Vitae
1978-1981: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich
1981-1984: Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland
1984-1989: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
1989: PhD in physics (1990)
1989-1991: IBM Research Lab in Rueschlikon, Switzerland, postdoctoral fellow
1991-1999: Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ, independent research
1999-2011 (since 2011 acting director): Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg. Director. Head of the Department of Biomedical Optics
since 2002: Adjunct Professor of Physics, University of Heidelberg
since 2009: Senior Fellow, HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus
since 2011: Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology Martinsried, now Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence. Director. Head of the department Electrons - Photons - Neurons
Research Grant
2004-2007: Functional imaging of neural networks with non-linear optics, Human Frontier Science Program
Honors and Awards
- 1986 - 1989: IBM Graduate Research Fellowship
- 1998: Young Investigator Award der Biophysical Society
- 2000: Rank Prize für Opto-Electronics
- 2003: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize der DFG (German Research Council)
- 2005: Heller Lecture, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
- 2006: Alden Spencer Award, Columbia Universtity, New York
- 2006: Kavli Lecture, Society for Neuroscience
- 2008: Henri Sack Lecture, Cornell University, Ithaca
- 2012: Kavli Prize in Neuroscience, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
- 2013: Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Science (NAS), USA
- 2013: Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award
- 2014: Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
- 2015: Member of the National Academy of Science (Leopoldina)
- 2015: Brain Prize
- 2015: Zülch Prize
- 2016: Member of Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
- 2016: Honorary Professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich