Hans-Joachim Pflüger

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Hans-Joachim Pflüger (born March 7, 1949 in Ulm ) is a German neurobiologist .

biography

Pflüger grew up in Neu-Ulm and attended the Kepler grammar school in Ulm until he graduated from high school in 1968. He then studied chemistry and biology at the universities of Stuttgart and Kaiserslautern , where he passed the state examination in 1974. He completed postgraduate studies in Kaiserslautern and received his doctorate in 1976. He was at the University of Cambridge via a postdoctoral fellowship from the DFG . From 1977 to 1980 he was a research assistant at the University of Bielefeld with Professor Peter Görner , from 1980 to 1987 at the University of Konstanz , where he received his habilitation in 1985. Since 1987, Pflüger has been Professor of Neurobiology and Functional Neuroanatomy at the Free University of Berlin .

Since 1991 Pflüger has been Adjunct Professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson , USA.

Research area

Pflüger heads an international working group. His research interests are in the entire neurobiology and neuroethology , his research focuses on the development of sensorimotor networks and the role of biogenic amines and the function of neuromodulatory cells in insects. In teaching, he represents a wide range of subjects from zoology and animal physiology .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Curriculum Vitae on the website of the FU Berlin - Neurobiology (English) ( Memento from May 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive )