Wolf Singer
| Wolf Singer | |
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| Born |
March 9, 1943 Munich, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Fields | neuroscience, cognitive science, neurophysiology, neurobiology |
| Institutions | Max Planck Institute for Brain Research |
| Alma mater | Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Technical University Munich |
| Thesis | The role of telencephalic commissures in bilateral EEG-synchrony (1968) |
| Doctoral advisor | Otto Detlev Creutzfeldt |
| Notable awards | Ernst Jung Prize (1994) Körber European Science Prize (2000) |
Wolf Joachim Singer (* 9 March 1943) is a German neurophysiologist.
Singer was born in Munich and studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU Munich) from 1965 onwards (as a scholarship holder of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation ) and 1965/66 two semesters at the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1968, he received his PhD from Ludwig Maximilians University with his doctoral thesis on „The role of telencephalic commissures in bilateral EEG-synchrony“. His doctoral supervisor was Otto Detlev Creutzfeldt of the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry. During his advanced training in neurophysiology, he spent a year at the University of Sussex in England. In 1970 he received his medical licence as a physician while working as a doctor at the University Hospital Munich.
In 1975, he habilitated in Physiology at the Medical Faculty of the Technical University of Munich. In 1981, he was appointed a member of the Max Planck Society and Director of the Department of Neurophysiology at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt am Main. Here, together with Walter Greiner and Horst Stöcker, he founded the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) as well as the Brain Imaging Center (BIC) in 2004 and the Ernst Strüngmann Science Forum and the Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI). He is an honorary professor of physiology at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Since 2011 he has the status of an emeritus and as such continues to operate the "Singer-Emeritus-Department" at MPI Frankfurt.
Wolf Singer is the father of brain researcher and cognitive scientist Tania Singer.
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