Rüdiger Wehner#
| Membership Number: | 661 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008 - 2010 Guest Professor (Alexander von Humboldt Awardee) at the Biocenter of the University of Würzburg, Germany
- 2005 - 2008 Emeritus Research Professor, University of Zürich, Switzerland
- 1991 - 2008 Non‐Resident Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg), Berlin, Germany
- 1987 - 1993 Andrew Dickson White Professor (at Large), Cornell University, USA
- 1976 - 1980, 1986‐2005 Director of the Institute of Zoology, University of Zürich
- 1974 - 2005 Full Professor, University of Zürich
- 1973 - 1974 Visiting Professor at the Department of Biology, Yale University, USA
- 1972 Associate Professor
- 1970 Assistant Professor, University of Zürich
- 1967 - 1970 Senior Assistant at the Institute of Zoology, University of Zürich
- 1969 Habilitation at the Science Faculty of the University of Zürich
- 1967 PhD at the University of Frankfurt (Main), Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Neurobiology of invertebrates
- Neurophysiology and behavioural analysis of insect vision
Honours and Awards
- 2012 Fellow of the International Society for Neuroethology
- 2010 Associate of the Neurosciences Research Program (NRP), USA
- 2009 University Silver Medal, University of Tübingen, Germany
- 2008 King Faisal International Prize for Science
- 2007 Alexander von Humboldt Research Award
- 2006 Honorary Member of the German Zoological Society
- 2005 Honorary Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat. h.c.) awarded by the Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
- 2005 Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2003 Honorary Doctorate (Dr. sci. nat. h.c.) awarded by the University of Lund, Sweden
- 2002 Marcel Benoist Preis
- 2002 Honorary Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat. h.c.) awarded by the Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, Germany
- 2000 Member of the Royal Swedish Physiographic Society
- 1998 Corresponding Member (foreign countries) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 1996 Distinguished Scientist Award of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
- 1996 Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences at Göttingen
- 1995 Member of the Berlin‐Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
- 1994 Karl Ritter von Frisch Medal and Science Prize of the German Zoological Society
- 1993 Carus Medal of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and Carus Prize of the City of Schweinfurt, Germany
- 1993 Honorary Foreign Member of the American Philosophical Society
- 1989 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 1987 Corresponding Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
- 1985 Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 1977 Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature at Mainz
- 1967 Annual PhD Award of the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe University of Frankfurt (Main), Germany
- 1960 - 1967 Member of the German National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
