Franz Mechsner

Franz Mechsner (born October 22, 1953 ) is a German human biologist and writer .

Life

After graduating from high school, Franz Mechsner studied biology , philosophy and ethnology at the University of Tübingen ; he graduated in 1984 with a diploma in biology. As a researcher u. a. in the fields of Gestalt theory and the psychology of tool use, he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research in Munich , at the Hanse Science College in Delmenhorst and at the Institute for Work Physiology at the University of Dortmund . He is the author of numerous, also popular scientific , articles for German and international magazines (including " Der Spiegel " and " Geo ") and of fiction texts. In 1998 he received his doctorate in human biology from the University of Munich . Mechsner was until mid-2012, associate professor in the Department of Psychology (School of Psychology and Sports Sciences) of Northumbria University in the UK Newcastle . There he held the position of Deputy Director of the Cognition and Communication Research Center .

Franz Mechsner won the publisher's grant at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt in 1981 , and in 1982 he received the Stuttgart City Literature Prize . The international society for Gestalt theory and its applications honored his research work "Gestalt Factors in Human Movement Coordination" in the Wolfgang Metzger Award competition 2002 with the second prize (full text see web links).

Forward backward or The uncanny total life , Munich 1981
A theory of the cerebellar function , Munich 1998
Gestalt Factors in Human Movement Coordination . Gestalt Theory 25 (4/2003), 225-245.
together with Katharina Brichetti: Heilsame Architektur: Experiencing, understanding and designing spatial qualities , Bielefeld: transcript 2019, ISBN 978-3-8376-4503-3 , (Architectures series; Volume 48).

personal data
SURNAME	Mechsner, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German human biologist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 22, 1953