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Professor Zoology and Neurobiology - - - Director Zukunftskolleg
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Universität Konstanz Tel: +49-7531-88-2238 room: M 1103 |
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Curriculum vitae
Born in Rome (Italy), schools in Rome.
Undergraduate university studies (Mathematics and Biology) at the Freie Universität Berlin 1986-1989 (Germany).
Ph.D. in Zoology at the University of Cambridge (U.K.) 1990-1993.
Postdoc at the Max-Planck Institute for Developmental Biology (with Chr. Müller) in Tübingen 1993-1995 (Germany).
Postdoc at the Freie Universität in Berlin (with Randolf Menzel) 1995-2002.
Research Group Leader (Nachwuchsgruppe Volkswagenstiftung) at the Freie Universität Berlin 1999-2005.
Habilitation 2002 (Zoology) at the FU Berlin.
Associate Professor for Entomology and Entomologist at the Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside (USA) 2003-2005.
Professor for Zoology and Neurobiology at the Universität Konstanz since 2005.
Director of the Zukunftskolleg at the University of Konstanz since 2009.
Coordinator Priority Research Program "Integrative Analysis of Olfaction" funded by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) (2009-2017)
Guest Scientist, Department of Electronic Engineering, Università Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy (10/2012-9/2013).
Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin (2019/20).
2022-2027: Permanent Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin.
2022-present: Member of the scientific council for the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Université de Luxembourg.
2021-present: Nominated into the Kuratorium of the "Akademie Schloss Solitude", Stuttgart.
2021-present: Elected member of the UBIAS steering committee (University based Institutes for Advanced Study)
2020-present: Member in the Kuratorium of the "Manfred Ulmer Stiftung", Konstanz
2020-2021: Mentor of Thematic Focus "Mutations" at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
2019-present: Beratergremium des "Hegau Bodensee Seminar", Konstanz
2009-present: Vertrauensdozent of the DFG at the University of Konstanz
2000-2005: Founding member of "Die Junge Akademie", where I was in the executive committee, in the group "Wissenschaftspolitik", and particularly involved in the group "Heureka - Evidenzkriterien in der Wissenschaft".
2005: Elected mentor of the year in the honors program of the
2007: Visiting Professor Università di Cagliari, Italy.
2009-present: Foreign Member of The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and
1992-present: Fellow of the
Memberships: Society for Neuroscience (SFN), Neurowissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (NWG), Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft (DZG), European Chemoreception Research Organization (ECRO), Deutscher Hochschulverband, Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz (BUND), Verein der Ehemaligen der Universität Konstanz (VEUK). Support Amnesty International.