.: Hoffmann, Klaus-Peter

Curriculum Vitae

Professional and academic career

1963-1969

Studies in Biology, Physics, Zoology and Chemistry in Tübingen and Munic

1967-1969

Ph.D. Student with Prof. O. D. Creutzfeldt, Dept. for Experimentelle Neuropyhsiology, MPI for Psychiatry, Munich

1970

Ph.D. in Zoology, University of Munich

1970-1972

Postdoctoral fellow with Prof. P.O. Bishop, Dept. of Physiology, Australian National University, Canberra

1972-1973

Research Project in the DFG Group Grant Cybernetics in Munich

1973-1976

Head of the neurophysiology lab at the Institute for Zoology, University of Mainz

1974

Habilitation in Zoology, University of Munich

1976

Professor for Zoology at the University of Ulm

1976-1987

Leader of the neurophysiology group at the Dept. for Comparative Neurobiology, University of Ulm

1979 and 1983

Research stays at the Dept. of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, at the Dept. of Physiology, New York and at the Dept. of Anatomy, University of New South Wales, Sydney und Dept. Of Zoology, Monash University, Melbourne

since 1987

Professor and Chair for Zoology and Neurobiologie at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

1996

Chairs offered. Department of Zoology, University of Hannover and Director of German Primate Center Göttingen (declined)

Functions

Dean of the Faculty of Biology

Chairman of the Graduate School "Kognition, Gehirn und Neuronale Netze" (KOGNET) 1995-2004

Member of the DFG-Reviewing Board Neuroscience

Member of the German Science Foundation Study Section for Neuroscience

Speaker of the International Graduate School for Neuroscience NRW in Bochum, 2001-2005

Organizing activities

President of the German Neuroscience Societies 2005-2007

Chairman Review Committee Brain of the Human Frontier Science Program

Chairman Council of Scientists HFSP

Chairman of the Biofuture Jury of the German Ministery of Science and Technology

Honours and awards

Merckle Prize, Ulm