Rektoratsbeauftragter für die Forschungsvernetzung der Medizinischen Fakultät OWL und Core Facilities
AG Neurobiologie
ORCID ID 0000-0002-9336-4270
University Education
1975-1980 | Undergraduate - Universität Tübingen (Germany) |
1979-1980 | Diploma-Thesis, ´Coupled neuronal oscillators in the snail Lymnaea stagnalis: endogenous cellular properties and network interactions´(University of Sussex, Brighton, UK) |
1981-1985 | Doctoral-Thesis; ´On the neuronal basis of figure-ground discrimination by relative motion in the nervous system of the fly´, Max-Planck-Institut für biologische Kybernetik (Tübingen, Germany) |
1989 | Habilitation´ in ´Animal Physiology´, University of Tübingen, Germany. |
Professional Career
1985-1993 | Principal Investigator, Max-Planck-Institut für biologische Kybernetik, (Tübingen, Germany) |
1994-1995 | Fellow (tenured), Visual Sciences Group, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University (Canberra, Australia) |
since 1995 | Professor, Head of Department of Neurobiology, Bielefeld University |
1999-2006 | Speaker of the interdisciplinary DFG Graduate Research Programme “Strategies and Optimisation of Behaviour” |
2001-2004 | Coordinator of the BMBF Network MONIST ‘Simulations about Brains’ |
2002-2004 | Dean of the Faculty of Biology, Bielefeld University |
2006-2021 | Vice-Rector for Research, Bielefeld University |
since 2007 | Principal Investigator at the Center of 'Cognitive Interaction Technology' (CITEC), Bielefeld University) |
2009-2021 | Member of the Board of Directors of the Centre for Intersiciplinary Studies (ZiF) at Bielefeld University |
since 2021 | Representative of the Rectorate for Research Networking in Medicine |
1976–1981 | Fellowship of the `Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes', (German National Merit Foundation) |
1985 | Otto-Hahn Prize of the Max-Planck-Society |
since 2005 | External member of the ‚Centre of Excellence in Vision Science’ of the Australian Research Council (ARC) |
1981 | Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft (Germany) |
1985 | International Society for Neuroethology |
1989 | European Neuroscience Association |
1989 | International Brain Research Organization |
1990 | Society for Neuroscience (USA) |
1993 | Neurowissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (Germany) |
Research Interests
• Neuronal mechanisms underlying visually guided behaviour in insects
• Spatial learning and navigation
• Information processing by nerve cells and neuronal networks
• Population coding of natural sensory information
• Virtual reality techniques to analyse neuronal coding of natural visual information
• Active vision strategies in the context of spatial learning and navigation
• Neuromodelling and bio-inspired robotics