Hermann Wagner#
| Membership Number: | 2128 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Section: | ORGANISMIC & EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2001 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 1995 Professor of Zoology/Animal physiology, RWTH Aachen
- 1994-1995 Heisenberg Fellow at the Technical University Munich, Germany
- 1992 Habilitation, University Tübingen, Germany
- 1987-1994 Senior Researcher at the Max-Planck-Institut for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
- 1985-1987 Postdoctoral fellow, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
- 1986 Dr. rer. nat., University of Tübingen, 1986
Fields of Scholarship
- Neural, behavioral, and theoretical basis of spatial hearing and application to robots
- Neural representation of simple mathematical algorithms
- Mechanisms underlying the silent flight of owls
- Depth vision by stereo, accommodation and motion parallax
- Interfacing of neurons and neural circuits with chips
Honours and Awards
- 2011 - 2012 President of the German Zoological Society
- 2012 German Ornithologists Award
- 2010 Member of the German Academy of Science Leopoldina
- 2001 Member of Academia Europaea
