BIRTH DATE:

May 11, 1945

BIRTH PLACE:

Ottau, Czechoslovakia

HOME ADDRESS:

Brunnenstr. 23

D-72116 Mössingen

HOME PHONE:

07473 - 21593

German

POSITION:

Full Professor of Behavioral Neurobiology and Medical Psychology (C4 Ordinarius)

LANGUAGES:

English, Italian (both fluent)

Education

1963-1969

University of Vienna, Psychology

1969

Ph.D., University of Vienna, (Psychology)

1975

University docent (Privatdozent), University of Munich, (venia legendi in Physiological Psychology)

Internships

1965-1967

Institute of Psychiatry, Vienna

1969

Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, Munich

1970

Middlesex Hospital, London, Department of Psychiatry

1967-1969

Forschungsassistent (research assistant), Department of Psychology, University of Vienna (Austria)

1969-1970

Research Associate, Department of Psychology, University of Vienna (Austria)

1970-1975

Wissenschaftlicher Angestellter (assistant professor), Institute of Psychology, University of Munich, Dept. of Clinical Psychology

1975-1993

Professor (C4), Department of Clinical and Physiological Psychology, University of Tübingen, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Science

1978-1979

Prodekan (Vice Dean) of the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Science of the University of Tübingen

1979-1980

Invited Visiting Professor at the University of Madison, 9/1981-1/1982 Wisconsin, Institute of Psychology

8/1981

Offer from the University of Hamburg for a C4 (Full) Professorship in Clinical Psychology

3/1986-6/1986

Invited Visiting Professor of Physiological Psychology at the University of Padova, Department of Psychology, Italy

1986-1988

Full Professor of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Psychology, USA

1993-present

Professor (C4) and Director, Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Faculty of Medicine. Director of the Magnetoencephalography (MEG)-Center

1986-1988

Faculty Member, The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, The Pennsylvania State University, Dept. of Behavioral Sciences, USA

1986-present

Adjunct Full Professor of Psychology, Dept. Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

Spring semester 1989

Invited Visiting Full Professor of Behavioral Neuro­science and Psychology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA

1989-2001

Professor of Clinical Psychophysiology at the University of Padova, Italy (Professore straniero)

1995

Offer of a Full Professorship (C4) at the Charité-Clinic of the Humboldt-University Berlin

2001-2006

Professor of Neuroscience at the Faculty of Physics, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Trento, Italy

2003

Offer for Davimos Eminent Scholar Chair in Brain Sciences, University of Florida, USA

2005-2007

Visiting Professor at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), NINDS, Cortical Physiology Unit, Bethesda, MD, USA

since 2008

Conseliere, IRCCS Ospedale San Camillo, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico, Venezia-Lido, Italien

9/2008-4/2009

Invited Visiting Professor, Complutense University, Madrid and Universitat delle Baleares, Mallorca, Department of Psychology, Spain

1988-1996

Elected main area reviewer (Fachgutachter)for physiological psychology and general psychology of the German Research Society (DFG)

1984-1985

President of the European Association for Behavior Therapy (EABT)

1984-1985

President of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Verhaltensmedizin und Verhaltensmodifikation (DGVM)

1985

Roemer Award for outstanding scientific achievements in Psychosomatic Medicine (DKPM)

1986-present

Fellow, The Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research

1986-present

Fellow, The Society of Behavioral Medicine

1992-present

Fellow, APA, Divison 6: Comparative and Physiolocial Psychology

1987-1990 

Board member, Experimental Division, Biofeedback Society of America, Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback (AAPB)

1987-1990 1995-1998

Board of directors, Society for Psychophysiological

1995-1998

Research (SPR)

2004-2005

President of the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR)

1984

Chair (Sprecher) of a national research program (Schwerpunktprogramm) of the German Research Society (DFG) "Interoception and Behavior Control"

1984-1999

Member of the board of a special interdisciplinary research program (Sonderforschungsbereich) of the German Research Society (DFG) "Neurobiology of Behavior and its Pathology"

1992-1996

Fachausschußvorsitzender der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) für Psychologie (Main area reviewer of Psychology of the German Research Society DFG)

1992 and 1999

Award of the Deutsche Gesellschaft zum Studium des Schmerzes for Research on the Treatment of Chronic Pain (together with H. Flor) and Experiments on Neural Pain Mechanisms

Since 1992

Christian Dornier-Stiftung für Klinische Psychologie (Scientific Board, Board of Directors)

1993-present

Full Member (Ordentliches Mitglied) of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz

1994

Nordmark Neuropharmaka Award for Behavioral Research in Parkinson's disease

1995

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

1995

Psychologie-Preis (Psychology Award) of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGfP) and the Christoph-Dornier-Stiftung

1996

Distinguished Scientist Award of the American Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback

1999

Honorary Citizen of Dolcé, Peri, Volargne (Verona, Italy)

2000

Forschungspreis 2000 für Neuromuskuläre Erkrankungen (Award for Research in Neuromuscular Diseases) of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Muskelkranke e.V.

2000

Sertürner Preis, Mundipharma, for research on pain treatment with opiates

2000

Wilhelm-Wundt-Medal of the German Society of Psychology (DGfP, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie)

since 2000

Member of the Scientific Board of the Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen

2001

Albert-Einstein-World-Award of Science of the World Cultural Council

2003-2006

Member of the Board (Cognitive Neuroscience): Neurowissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (Society for Neurosciences, Germany)

1993-present

Board Member of the NIMH Center for the Study of Emotion and Attention, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, USA

2004-2005

President of the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR)

2003-present

Full Member (Ordentliches Mitglied) of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, National Academy of Science

2008-2016

Main Area Reviewer for " Fachkollegium Neurowissenschaft" of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

2009-present

Advisory Board, Sphinx Organisation for African-American Classical Music,  Detroit, USA

2009

Distinguished Scientist Award for the Society of Psychophysiological Research (SPR)

2009

Fellow, Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

2010

Fellow, Association for Psychological Science (APS)

2010

Honorary doctorship (Dr. h.c), University of Jena

2010

Helmholtz-Award of the Berlin Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften

2012

Honorary doctorship (Dr.h.c.), Universidad Complutense, Madrid

1970-1975

Grant from Stiftung Volkswagenwerk (VW) for "Psychophysiological Methods for the Treatment of Anxiety"

1972-1983

Grants from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Society, DFG) for "Behavior Modification and the Psychophysiological Basis of Anxiety"

1977-1984

Grants from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) for "Treatment of Psychosomatic Disorders"

1980-1984

Grants from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) for Behavioral Treatment of Scoliosis

1980-present

Grants from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Society, DFG) for Slow Cortical Potentials of the Brain and Behavior

1989-1993

Grant from Ministry of Research and Technology (BMFT) for Treatment of Chronic Pain

Several grants for travel and professorships from Stiftung VW ("Akademiejahr 1989"), DFG, NATO and US-Universities and Humboldt-Society

Several grants from industrial organizations for research in psychopharmacology

1992-1995

Grant from Bosch-Stiftung Behavioral Treatment of Parkinson's Disease

1992-1999

Research Group of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG): The Clinical Psychophysiology of Pain (Forschergruppe der DFG Klinische Psychophysiologie des Schmerzes)

1994­present

Grant from the DFG (German Research Society) for "Neuropsychological Treatment of Epilepsy"

1995-present

Grant from the DFG (German Research Society) for "Neuronal basis of classical conditioning"

2001

Grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) for acquisition of a 3 T high-field functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (together with the Clinic of Radiology and Neurology)

1996-2001

Grant from Stiftung Volkswagenwerk "Nachwuchsgruppe Cortical Reorganization and Learning"

1999-2004

Grant from Ministry of Research and Technology (BMFT): "Effects of preventive anaesthesia on phantom pain and cortical reorganization"

1999-2002

Grant from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Society (DFG)): "Cortical reorganization in phantom pain"

2002-2007

Grant from the Ministry of Research and Technology (BMFT): "Neuropathic Pain"

2000-2003

Grant from the Ministry of Research and Technology (BMFT): "Direct Brain Communication in the Paralyzed"

2002-2007

Grant from NIH (National Institute of Health, USA): "A General Purpose Brain-Computer-Interface System" (together with J. Wolpaw, Wadsworth Center, Albany, N.Y., USA)

2001-present

Grants from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) in the Sonderforschungsbereich 550 and 437 (Special Research Groups lasting 10-12 years:" Recognition and Behavior", "War and Behavior in War")

2005

Grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and Government of Baden-Wuerttemberg for Acqusition of a fetal Magnetoencephalograph (fMEG)

2005-present

Several grants from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) on "Oscillatory Brain Activity and Memory", "Cortical Reorganization in Musicians", "Effects of brain stimulation on behavior"

2009-2012

European Research Council (ERC) grant for Brain-Computer-Interface (together with Rosenstiel) Research in the Paralyzed

2009-2013

Bernstein Center Freiburg-Tübingen of Computational Neuroscience "Hybrid Brain", Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) 01GQ0831

2009-2012

European Community, Marie Curie Grant Coordinator, ITN-LAN Initial Training Network: Lateralized Attention Network

2009-2011

EU Humour Grant, Human behavioral modeling for enhancing learning by optimizing human-robot interaction, Grant-Nr. 231724

2010-2013

EU Better Grant, BETTER-BNCI-driven Robotic Physical Therapies in Stroke Rehabilitation of Gait Disorders, Grant Nr. 247935

1969-present

Extensive teaching in all areas of Behavioral Neuroscience, Physiological Psychology, General Psychology, Neuroimaging, Clinical and Medical Psychology, Behavior Modification, Psychopathology, Behavioral Medicine.

Invited keynote speaker at many conferences, universities, and medical institutions in Europe and the United States and Asia

Supervision of numerous dissertations, habilitations and masters' theses

1975-present

Supervisor of the German Society of Behavior Modification

1970-1975

Therapist of the Ambulance of the Department of Clinical Psychology of the University of Munich (40 patients per year; all kinds of psychological and medical disorders)

1975-1992

Director of clinical program for behavior modification of psychosomatic disorders at the Clinical-Psychological Department of the University of Tübingen

1975-1992

Chief of the Ambulance of the Department of Clinical and Physiological Psychology at the University Tübingen (60 patients per year, mainly medical disorders)

1981

Member of the board of directors of the clinical program for the Psychological Treatment of Scoliosis (together with Prof. N.E. Miller and Prof. B. Dworkin, Rockefeller University, New York)

1992-present

Director of the Ambulance and Pain Clinic of the Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology

2001-present

Director of the Christoph-Dornier-Center of Clinical Psychology, Tübingen

1979-1980

Clinical Supervisor at the Fear Clinic, University of Madison, Department of Psychology

1986-1988

Supervisor of Clinical Training, Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University

1990

Licence of German Medical Insurance Society (Kassenärztliche Vereinigung) as supervisor in behavior therapy (Kassenanerkennung)

1999

Licenced as "Psychologischer Psychotherapeut" by the Government of Baden-Württemberg

since 2006

Member of "Psychotherapeutenkammer Baden-Württemberg"

1973-1985

Progress in Clinical Psychology (Fortschritte der Klinischen Psychologie. Germ.), Editor

1981-1995

Biofeedback and Self-Regulation, Associate Editor

until 1982

Psychologische Rundschau, Editorial Board

1977-1991

Archives of Psychiatry and Neurological Sciences, Co-Editor

1977-1982

Behavioural Analysis and Modification, Editorial Board Psychophysiology, (European Edition) Editorial Board (one issue)

1976-1999

Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie, Editorial Board

since 1990

Enzyklopädie der Psychologie (Encyclopedia of Psychology), Editor

1988-present

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Associate

1994-2010

International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, Editorial Board

since 1999

Encyclopedia for the Scientific Study of Subjectivity, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Advisory Board

since 1999

Cognitive Processing, International Quarterly of Cognitive Science, Scientific Board

2003

Guest editor, special issues on Brain-Computer-Interfaces: IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation Engineering

since 2004

Associate Editor for Rehabilitation Technology of the Journal Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair (NNR)

since 2008

Studia Psychologica, Editorial Board

since 2008

Frontiers in Neuroprosthetics, Editor-in-Chief

since 2009

Editor-in-Chief: Fronties in Neuroprosthetics (together with Eilon Vaadia)

since 2012

NeuroImage: Clinical, Editorial Board