Bernhard Ronacher
Bernhard HC Ronacher (born April 9, 1949 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian biologist and university professor.
Life
Bernhard Ronacher studied biology in Innsbruck (Austria) and Freiburg. After receiving his doctorate in 1974 with Bernhard Hassenstein , he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Biology III at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg until 1979 . From 1979 until his habilitation in 1986 he was first assistant and then senior assistant at the University of Erlangen .
In 1993 he was visiting professor at the University of Zurich in the department of Rüdiger Wehner . Since 2003 he has been a professor at the Department of Behavioral Physiology at the Institute for Biology at the Humboldt University in Berlin . He is also a project manager at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin.
He has been a member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen since 2007 and a member ( matriculation number 7272 ) of the Leopoldina since 2009 . During and after his doctorate he dealt with visual pattern recognition in insects (especially honey bees ), and later also in humans. Later he researched, among other things, the evaluation of electrical object characteristics by weakly electrical fish , the neural processing of acoustic communication characteristics in field locusts , and the orientation of desert ants .
literature
- Bernhard Ronacher, Hansjörg Hemminger : Introduction to nerve and sensory physiology. 3rd edition 1987 (1st edition 1976), ISBN 3494008515 .
- Sandra Wohlgemuth, Bernhard Ronacher, Rüdiger Wehner: Ant odometry in the third dimension. Nature 411, 2001, pp. 795-798, doi : 10.1038 / 35081069 .
Web links
- Homepage of Bernhard Ronacher at the HU Berlin
- Interview with Bernhard Ronacher , DW-TV , March 22, 2009 (video, accessed August 4, 2012).
Individual evidence
- ^ BCCN: Members
- ^ Yearbook of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 2008, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-022160-2 .
- ↑ Leopoldina: Newly elected members 2009 ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF, with CV p. 76).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ronacher, Bernhard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ronacher, Bernhard HC |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian biologist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 9, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | innsbruck |