Rainer Friedrich#
| Membership Number: | 3744 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.fmi.ch/friedrich.r |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2007 Senior Group Leader (tenured), Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
- 2001 Research Group Leader (C3), Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany
- 1998 Postdoc, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- 1998 Postdoc, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
- 1995 PhD student, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Neuronal computation
- Olfaction
- Neurophysiology
- High resolution imaging
- Optogenetics
- Zebrafish neurogenetics
- Neuronal circuits
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Academia Europaea Member
- 2014 EMBO member
- 2013 Bonus of excellence of Swiss National Science Foundation
- 2012 Delwart Foundation Research Prize
- 2011 Adjunct Professorship, University of Basel
- 2003 James Heinemann Research Award
- 1998 Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society
- 1998 Attempto Award of the University of Tübingen
- 1995 Fellowship of Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds
- 1993 Member/fellow, German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
