| Professional Experience |
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| 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 |
