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__University Education & Degrees__
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*1954 - 1960 Universities of Tuebingen, Kiel and Innsbruck\\Subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Philosophy
*1957 Philosophical examination certificate (Philosophikum)
*1960 PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) University of Tuebingen
*1961 Research stay, Rockefeller University, New York City\\Host: Professor Haldan Keffer Hartline (Nobel Prize 1967)
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__Teaching, Research Appointments and Honors__
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*1960 - 1968 Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Biology Tuebingen, Department Reichardt
*1968 Scientific Member and Director of the Max Planck Society\\Foundation of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics\\Founding Directors: Werner Reichardt, Valentin Braitenberg, Karl Georg Götz, Kuno Kirschfeld
*1972	Research and teaching stay, Institute of Advanced Studies Australian National University, Dept. Applied Mathematics, Canberra, at the invitation of Prof. A. Snyder
*1974	Honorary Professor at the University of Tuebingen
*1989	Member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (National Academy of Germany)
*1998	Member of the Academia Europaea 
*1999	 Co-founder of the Graduate School of Neural and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Tuebingen
*2002 	Emeritus Professor
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__Administrative Positions__
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*1977 - 1980 / 1986 - 1989 / 1994 - 1997 Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen
*1994 - 2002 Chairman of the Commission of the Max Planck Society for questions concerning animal experiments in research
*Since 1999 Member of the Animal Welfare Commission Baden-Wuerttemberg (Landesbeirat fuer den Tierschutz)