Martin Heisenberg#
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Present and Previous Positions
- 2008-2012 Hochschulrat, Technische Universität Ilmenau
- 2007-2010 Stiftungsrat , of Leibnitz-Institute for Neurobiology
- 2008 Visiting Professor, Janelia Farm Research Campus, HHMI
- 2008-1-10 Prof. emeritus
- 1997 Ida Beam Visiting Professor, University of Iowa
- 1986-87 Cornelius Wiersma Visiting Professor of Neurobiology California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- 1975- Professor of Genetics, Head of Department (Lehrstuhl) of Genetics, Institute of Genetics and Microbiology, Würzburg University, (since 1992: Biozentrum; Theodor-Boveri-Institut für Biowissenschaften; Lehrstuhl für Genetik; since 2000: Lehrstuhl für Genetik und Neurobiologie)
- 1975 Visiting Research Fellow, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
- 1968-75 Assistent at Max Planck Institut für biologische Kybernetik, Tübingen (Abt. K.G. Götz)
Fields of Scholarship
- investigation of brain and behaviour of Drosophila
- visual pattern recognition
- localization of memory traces
- role of initiating activity in operant conditioning
- selective attention
- motivation
Honours and Awards
- 1976- European Molecular Biology Organization
- 1983 International Society of Neuroethology
- 1984 Gesellschaft für physikalische Biologie
- 1989- Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina
- 1998 Academia Europaea
- 1999 Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen
- 2001 Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
- 2006 Karl-Ritter-von-Frisch-Medal
- 2009 Dr. h.c. Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse
- 2007-2010 President, International Society of Neuroethology
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