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University Education & Degrees
- 1954 - 1960 Universities of Tuebingen, Kiel and Innsbruck
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Philosophy - 1957 Philosophical examination certificate (Philosophikum)
- 1960 PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) University of Tuebingen
- 1961 Research stay, Rockefeller University, New York City
Host: Professor Haldan Keffer Hartline (Nobel Prize 1967)
Teaching, Research Appointments and Honors
- 1960 - 1968 Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Biology Tuebingen, Department Reichardt
- 1968 Scientific Member and Director of the Max Planck Society
Foundation of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Founding Directors: Werner Reichardt, Valentin Braitenberg, Karl Georg Götz, Kuno Kirschfeld - 1972 Research and teaching stay, Institute of Advanced Studies Australian National University, Dept. Applied Mathematics, Canberra, at the invitation of Prof. A. Snyder
- 1974 Honorary Professor at the University of Tuebingen
- 1989 Member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (National Academy of Germany)
- 1998 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 1999 Co-founder of the Graduate School of Neural and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Tuebingen
- 2002 Emeritus Professor
Administrative Positions
- 1977 - 1980 / 1986 - 1989 / 1994 - 1997 Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen
- 1994 - 2002 Chairman of the Commission of the Max Planck Society for questions concerning animal experiments in research
- Since 1999 Member of the Animal Welfare Commission Baden-Wuerttemberg (Landesbeirat fuer den Tierschutz)
