Curriculum Vitae
- Wolf Singer
| Personal data | |
| Name: | Wolf Singer |
| Date of birth: | March 9, 1943 |
| Place of birth: | Munich, Germany |
| Nationality: | German |
| Education | |
| 1962 - 1964 | Study of Medicine at Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU), Munich |
| 1964 - 1965 | Medicine at Sorbonne, Troisième Cycle de Neurophysiologie, Faculté des Sciences, Paris |
| 1965 - 1968 | Continuation of medical studies at LMU, Munich |
| 1966 - 1968 | Thesis at the MPI for Psychiatry, Munich, Supervisor Prof. O. Creutzfeldt |
| 1968 | State Examination in Medicine and Defense of MD Thesis at LMU Munich: |
| "The role of telencephalic commissures in bilateral EEG-synchrony" | |
| 1969 - 1970 | Clinical stages at University Hospital LMU Munich to obtain approbation |
| 1970 | Approbation as General Physician, part time work as MD until 1980 |
| 1975 | Habilitation for Physiology at the Medical Faculty, Technical University, Munich |
| Professional Experience | |
| 1971 | Postdoc, Dept. Psychology, University of Sussex |
| 1972 - 1975 | Postdoc position at the MPI for Psychiatry with Prof. H.D. Lux |
| 1972 | Offer of the Chair for Human Neurobiology, University Bielefeld, Germany |
| 1972 - 1981 | Lecturer for Neurophysiology at the Technical University Munich, Dept. Informatics |
| Lecturer for Physiology at the Technical University Munich in the Curriculum „Medicine“ | |
| 1972 - 1981 | Member of the spezial research field SFB Kybernetik, funded by the German Research Society (DFG) |
| 1975 | Part time appointment as MD at the Neurology Ward, MPI for Psychiatry, Munich |
| 1975 - 1981 | Independent group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry, Munich |
| 1976 | Offer of chair at the Brain Research Institute at University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| 1980 | Professor for Physiology at Technical University, Munich |
| 1981 - 2011 | Director at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Dept. of Neurophysiology, Frankfurt, Germany |
| 2003 | Guest Professorship at the Collège de France, Paris, France |
| 2004 - pres. | Founding Director of the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), Frankfurt |
| 2004 - pres. | Founding Co-Director of the Brain Imaging Center (BIC), Frankfurt |
| 2006 - pres. | Founding Director of the Ernst Strüngmann Forum (former Dahlem Conference), Frankfurt |
| 2008 - pres. | Founding Director of the Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI), Frankfurt |
| 4/2011 - pres. | Emeritus Status at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research |
| 4/2011 - pres. | Senior Fellow at the Ernst Strüngmann Institute |
Upcoming Lectures and Events
29 May 2012
Special Lecture by Volker Busskamp (Harvard Medical Institute, Boston MA, USA)
Title: "Understanding, repairing and engineering the mammalian retina" [more]
30 May 2012
Neuroscience Lecture by Kristen Harris (Institute of Neuroscience, University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Title: "Ultrastructural synaptic plasticity and scaling during LTP" [more]
20 June 2012
Special Lecture by Claude Desplan (New York University, USA)
Title: “Neurogenesis of a complex brain structure: The optic lobe of Drosophila” [more]
