Martin Heisenberg#
| Membership Number: | 1806 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 1998 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008 - 2012 Hochschulrat, Technische Universität Ilmenau
- 2007 - 2010 Stiftungsrat, of Leibnitz-Institute for Neurobiology
- Since 2008 Professor emeritus
- 1986 - 1987 Cornelius Wiersma Visiting Professor of Neurobiology California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- 1975 - 2008 Professor of Genetics, Head of Department of Genetics, Institute of Genetics and Microbiology, Würzburg University
- 1968 - 1975 Assistent at Max Planck Institut für biologische Kybernetik, Tübingen (Abt. K.G. Götz)
Fields of Scholarship
- Investigation of brain and behaviour of Drosophila
- Visual pattern recognition
- Localization of memory traces
- Role of initiating activity in operant conditioning
- Selective attention
- Motivation
Honours and Awards
- 1976 European Molecular Biology Organization
- 1983 International Society of Neuroethology
- 1984 Gesellschaft für physikalische Biologie
- 1989 Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina
- 1998 Academia Europaea
- 1999 Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen
- 2001 Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
- 2006 Karl-Ritter-von-Frisch-Medal
- 2009 Dr. h.c. Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse
- 2007 - 2010 President, International Society of Neuroethology
