Tobias Bonhoeffer - Curriculum vitae#

Address

Max-Planck-Institute of Neurobiology
Am Klopferspitz 18
82152 Munich-Martinsried
Germany
ph.: +49 (89) 8578 3750
fax: +49 (89) 89950 050

Birthdate: 9-Jan-1960
Birthplace: Berkeley, California

School Education

• 1963-69 Waldorfkindergarten and primary school in Tübingen/Germany
• 1970-78 Higher school education at the Uhlandgymnasium in Tübingen
• 1971 Uintah Elementary School in Salt-Lake-City/Utah
• May 1978 “Abitur” (final school exam) at the Uhlandgymnasium Tübingen

Degrees

• 1978-84 Physics degree at the Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen
• 1980 Vordiplom (intermediate exam) in physics
• 1982/1983 Institute for Information Processing at the University of Tübingen
• 1983/84 Diploma Thesis at the Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen under the supervision of Dr. Valentino Braitenberg and Dr. Günther Palm: “A Network of Parallel Processors for the Implementation of an Associative Memory”
• 1984 Final exam (Diplom) in physics
• 1986-1988 PhD thesis in Biology at the Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen under the supervision of Dr. Valentino Braitenberg and Dr. Ad Aertsen: “Synaptic Plasticity in Hippocampal Slice Cultures. Investigations Utilizing Optical Recording and Voltage Sensitive Dyes.”
• January 1995 “Habilitation” at the Technical University of Darmstadt
• July 1995 “Habilitation” at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Civil Service

November 1984 Civil service as electronic engineer at the Neurological Hospital, University of Tübingen, Medical School (Director Prof. Dr. Johannes Dichgans).

Positions

• 1989/1990 Post-doc at the Rockefeller University/New York in the department of Dr. Torsten Wiesel and the laboratory of Dr. Amiram Grinvald. Investigation of the functional architecture of cat area 17 and 18 utilizing Intrinsic Signal Optical Imaging
• 1991-April 1993 Research assistant at the Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research/Frankfurt in the lab of Dr. Wolf Singer. Extension of the Intrinsic Imaging technique to the developing visual cortex
• 1993-April 1998 Head of an independent research group (comparable to an Associate Professor) at the Max-Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich. In vivo and in vitro analysis of synaptic plasticity and the development of cortical maps
• April 1998 Election as Scientific Member of the Max-Planck-Society
• April 1998-present Director at the Max-Planck-Institute of Neurobiology
• June 2008 Offer to become first President of the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (declined)

Teaching

• 1988 Instructor at the practical and lecture course “The Development of the Nervous System” at the Max-Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen.
• 1990 Instructor at the EMBO-course “Development, Regeneration and Plasticity of the Nervous System.”
• 1991,1992,1996 Instructor at the Cold Spring Harbor Course “Imaging Structure & Function in the Nervous System.”
• 1993,1995, Director of the Cold Spring Harbor Course:
• 1997,1999 “Structure, Function and Development of the Visual System.”
• 1991-1994 Lecturer at the Technical University Darmstadt/Germany.
• 1994-2002 Lecturer at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich.
• 2002-present Professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich.
• Boards 2000 Scientific Advisory Board Institute of Neuroinformatics (Directors: Rodney Douglas/Kevan Martin) ETH/University of Zürich
• 2000-2006 Scientific Advisory Board, Institute of Neuroscience (Director: Mu-ming Poo) Chinese Academy of Sciences
• 2001-present Scientific Advisory Board Swiss National Science Foundation, NCCR
• 2001-2004 Member of the Governing Board, German Neuroscience Society
• 2002 Scientific Advisory Board, Biology department, ETH Zürich
• 2004-present Member, Board of Directors and International Scientific Council, EBRI Foundation, Italy
• 2004-2005 Chairperson, Minerva Fellowship Committee, Minerva Foundation
• 2005-present Scientific Advisory Board, ZMNH, Hamburg
• 2005-2007 Chairperson, Perspektivenkommission , Biomedical Section of the Max-Planck-Society
• 2006-2008 Stellvertretender Sektionsvorsitzender (Deputy Chairperson), Biomedical Section of the Max-Planck-Society
• 2007-2012 Member of McKnight Foundation Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Awards, USA
• 2007-2008 Scientific Board and Chair of Search Committee “Brain and Computer”, I.S.T. Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria
• 2008 - 2011 Sektionsvorsitzender (Chairperson) Biomedical Section of the Max-Planck-Society Societies
• 1997-present Member German Neuroscience Society
• 1993-present Member Society of Neuroscience (U.S.A.)
• Editor 2000-present Current Opinion in Neurobiology (with Marc Tessier-Lavigne)

Editorial Boards

• 1995-1998 NeuroImage
• 1996-1998 Journal of Neurobiology
• 1999-2008 European Journal of Neuroscience
• 2000-present Neuron
• 2000-2007 Progress in Neurobiology
• 2001-2002 Current Biology
• 2003-present Hippocampus
• 2004-2008 Neuroscience Letters
• 2006-present Neural Development

Special Lectures

• May 2000 Distinguished Scientist Annual Lecture, University of Pittsburgh
• November 2000 Directors Lecture, NIH, Washington
• June 2001 Plenary Lecture, German Neuroscience Meeting, Göttingen, Germany
• January 2003 Decade of the Brain Lecture, Swiss Neuroscience Meeting, Fribourg, Switzerland
• July 2006 Plenary Lecture, Japanese Neuroscience Meeting, Kyoto, Japan
• October 2006 Plenary Lecture, Society for Neuroscience, Atlanta, GA, USA
• September 2009 Plenary Lecture, Austrian Neuroscience Association, Salzburg, Austria
• September 2009 Plenary Lecture, Spanish Society of Neuroscience, Tarragona, Spain
• July 2010 Plenary Lecture, FENS Forum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Organization of Scientific Meetings
• 2000 „Synapse 2000“ , Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Feldberg Foundation
• 2000 Co-chair CSH Meeting “Axonal guidance and Developmental Plasticity” (with Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Larry Zipursky)
• 2001 Co-chair Gordon conference “Neural Plasticity”
• 2001 Chair of the 5th Schloessmann Seminar of the Max Planck Gesellschaft
• 2002 Co-chair CSH Meeting “Axonal guidance and Developmental Plasticity” (with Cori Bargman and Larry Zipursky)
• 2003 Chair Gordon conference “Neural Plasticity”
• 2007 Organizing committee 9th International Neuroscience Winter Conference
• 2007 Co-chair Fondation des Treilles “Plasticité morphologique neuronale: mechanismes et function”

Honors and Awards

• 1990 “Attempto-Prize” for young neuroscientists from the University of Tübingen
• 2002-present Member of Faculty of 1000
• 2003-present Member Academia Europaea
• 2003-2011 Associate, Neuroscience Research Program The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, USA
• 2004 Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine, Ernst Jung Foundation, Hamburg
• 2006-present Member of EMBO
• 2009-2012 Member of Kavli Prize Committee in Neuroscience, Oslo, Norway
• 2009-present Awarding Committee member, Boehringer Ingelheim FENS Research Award