Curriculum Vitae

Education

1964: Physikum (Medicine): University of Tübingen, 1964
1967: State examination (Medicine): University of Munich, 1967
1968-1970: Internship (Medicine): University Hospital, Munich (Surgery, Internal Medicine and Gynaecology),

Positions held

1969-1970: Research Assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry Munich, Department of Neurophysiology (Prof. O.D. Creutzfeldt)
1971-1973: Britisch Council Fellow, Department of Biophysics, University College London (Prof B. Katz)
1974-1979: Research Assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry Göttingen, Department of Neurobiology (Prof. O.D. Creutzfeldt)
1979-1982: Research Associate of the Membrane Biology Group at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry Göttingen
1983: Member of the Max Planck Society, Head of the Membrane Biology Unit
1985: Head of the Department of Cell Physiology at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry Göttingen
1989-2008: Head of the Department of Cell Physiology at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research Heidelberg
2008 -: Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Martinsried

Academic Degrees

1974: Doctor of Medicine, Medical Faculty, University of Göttingen
1981: Privatdozent, Medical Faculty, University of Göttingen (Subject: Physiology and Neuropharmacology)
1987: Professor, Medical Faculty, University of Göttingen
1990: Professor, Medical Faculty, University of Heidelberg
1991: Professor, Biological Faculty, University of Heidelberg

Prizes and Awards

1977: Nernst Prize (Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft für physikalische Chemie)
1979: Feldberg Prize (Feldberg Foundation, London)
1981: Magnes Award (Magnes Foundation, Jerusalem)
1983: Spencer Prize (Columbia University, New York)
1984: Adolf Fick Prize (University of Würzburg)
1984: Zottermann Prize (Swedish Physiological Society)
1986: Gross-Horwitz Prize (Columbia University, New York)
1986: Leibniz Prize (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG)
1988: Louis Jeantet Prize (Louis Jeantet Foundation, Genf)
1989: Gairdner Prize (Gairdner Foundation, Toronto)
1990: Ernst Hellmut Vits Prize (University of Münster)
1991: Carus Medal (Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, Halle)
1991: Harvey Prize (Technion, Haifa)
1991: Gerard Prize (Society for Neuroscience, Washington)
1991: Landesforschungspreis (Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Baden-Württemberg)
1991: Nobel Prize (Nobel Foundation, Stockholm)

Endowed Lectureships

1982: Naham Lecture (Yale University, New Haven, Conneticut)
1986: Harold Lamport Lecture I (Washington University, Seattle, Washington)
1986: Peter Hemmerich Lecture (University of Konstanz)
1989: Feodor Lynen Lecture (University of Miami, Florida)
1990: Sherrington Lecture (University of Liverpool, Great Britain)
1990: Galvani Lecture (Georgetown University, Washington DC)
1991: John R. Murlin Lecture (Rochester University, Rochester, New York)
1991: Einar Hille Lecture (Washington University, Seattle, Washington)
1992: Lamson Lecture (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee)
1992: Dearden-Pindar-Stuart Lecture (University of California, Irvine, California)
1992: Feigan Lecture (Stanford University, Stanford, California)
1992: Erlanger-Gasser Lecture (Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri)
1993: Arthur Thompson Lecture (University of Birmingham, Great Britain)
1993: John M. Brookhart Lecture (Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, Oregon)
1995: Servier Lecture in Neurological Sciences (University of Montreal, Kanada)
1996: Aschoff Lecture (University of Freiburg)
1996: Sharpey-Schafer Lecture (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
1997: Beckmann Lecture (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
1997: Charles E. Smith Memorial Lecture (National Institute for Psychobiology, Tel Aviv)
1997: Sherrington Memorial Lecture (Royal Society of Medicine, London)
1998: Harold Lamport Lecture II (Washington University, Seattle, Washington)
1998: Dolan Boyd Pritchett Memorial Lecture (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)
1999: Dunham Lectures (Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts)
2001: Forbes Lecture (Grass Foundation, Braintree, Massachusetts)
2001: Mathieson Lecture (University of Melbourne, Australia)

Honorary Degrees

Dr. hc. of the University of Alicante, Spain
Dr. hc. of the University of Liverpool, Great Britain
Dr. hc. of the University of Bordeaux, France
Dr. hc. of the University of Munich
Dr. hc. of the University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado
Dr. hc. of the University College London, Great Britain
Dr. hc. of the Weizmann-Institute, Rehovot, Israel
Dr. hc. of the University of Melbourne, Australia
Dr. hc. of the Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Academies

Member of the Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, Halle
Member of the Münchner Akademie der Wissenschaften
Member of the Göttinger Akademie der Wissenschaften
Member of the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften
Member of the Orden Pour le Mérite
Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, USA
Foreign Member of the Royal Society, London, Great Britain