Tobias Bonhoeffer#
| Membership Number: | 2210 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2003 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.neuro.mpg.de/46496/cv |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 1998 Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society and Director at the Max-Planck Institute of Neurobiology
- 1993-1998 Research Group Leader, Max-Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich
- 1991-1993 Research Associate, Max-Planck Institute of Brain Research, Frankfurt
- 1989-1990 Postdoc, Rockefeller University New York
- 1988 PhD Biology, Max-Planck Institute of biol. Cybernetics/University of Tübingen
Fields of Scholarship
- Visual system
- Cerebral cortex
- Hippocampus
- Neuronal plasticity
- Dendritic spines
- Optical methods in neurobiology
Honours and Awards
- 2003-2011 Associate, Neuroscience Research Program, The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, USA
- 2004 Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine, Ernst Jung Foundation, Hamburg
- Since 2006 Member of EMBO
- 2008-2011 Chairman of the Biomedical Section of the Max Planck Society
- 2009-2012 Member of Kavli Prize Committee in Neuroscience, Oslo, Norway
