Prof. Dr. Kuno Kirschfeld
Main Focus
Kuno Kirschfeld was director of the department Comparative Neurobiology at the Max Planck Institute for
Biological Cybernetics from 1968 till his retirement in 2002. His main
research interests were the primary processes and photo transduction in
the photoreceptors of insects, physiological optics, visual pigments and
the ion regulation in the nervous system. He further compared the
processing of visual information in insects and vertebrates and the
influence of common anesthesia on the nervous system.
Comparative Neurobiology
Comparative Neurobiology
Curriculum Vitae
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Director emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Max Planck Ring 11, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany Tel. +49 7071 - 601 580 Email: kuno.kirschfeld@tuebingen.mpg.de |
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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
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| 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) |