Education and professional activities

1955-1959: Basic school

1959-1967: "Gymnasium“ („High School“)

1967-1970: Army service

1970-1974: Study of psychology and biology, University of Konstanz

1974: Diploma in psychology

1975: Three-month stay at the Dept. of Exptl. Psychol. of Oxford University (Scholarship of the Europ. Training Progr. in Brain and Behaviour Res.)

1974-1977: Advanced graduate study program at the University of Konstanz

1977: Doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat.)

1977: Six months scholarship at the Neurophysiological Institute of the University of Copenhagen (DAAD-Scholarship)

1977: Research Assistant, University of Konstanz

1977-1981: Assistant Professor, University of Konstanz

1980: Habilitation; Venia legendi for Psychology

1981-1985: Associate Professor for Physiolog. Psychology, Univ. Konstanz

1985-1989: Heisenberg-Scholarship

1986: Substitute for Professorship in General ad Physiological Psychology at the University of Koblenz-Landau

1986: Offer of C3 Professorship for General ad Physiological Psychology at the University of Koblenz-Landau (rejected)

1986: Extra-ordinate Professorship, University of Konstanz

1989-1991: C3 Professorship for Biopsychology at the Ruhr-University Bochum

1991-      : Chair (C4) for Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld

1993: Offer of Chair position for psychology at the University of Tasmania (Australia) (rejected)

1993: Offer of Chair position for psychology at the University of New England (Australia) (rejected)

1993-1994: Six-months research stay at the Rotman Research Institute in Toronto with Prof. Dr. Endel Tulving and at the Center of Neuroscience in Davis with Prof. Dr. Michael Gazzaniga.

1995: Two-months research stay at the Rotman Research Institute in Toronto with Prof. Dr. Endel Tulving.

1998: One-months research stay at the Rotman Research Institute in Toronto with Prof. Dr. Endel Tulving

1999: Offer of Chair position at the University of Alberta (Canada) and as Director of the Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience Programme (rejected)

2001-2009: Directorship at the Center for Interdisziplinary Research (ZiF) of the University of Bielefeld

2002: One-months research stay at the Rotman Res. Inst. with Prof. E. Tulving

2006/07: Fellowship at the Hanse Institute of Advanced Study in Bremen-Delmenhorst

2009/10: Fellowship at the Alfried-Krupp Institute of Advanced Study in Greifwald

2012/13: Fellowship at the Hanse Institute of Advanced Study in Bremen-Delmenhorst

2013-2018: Scholarship at the Neurological University Clinic of the University of Santa Catarina in Florianopolis, Brazilia

2018: Docent at the OPEN MIND Institute of Bukarest University

2019-present: Docent for Psychology at the Applied University for Economy and Management in Hamburg and Stuttgart