Hans-Ulrich Schnitzler

Hans-Ulrich Schnitzler (born March 6, 1939 ) is a German bat researcher, neurobiologist and professor at the University of Tübingen .

Life

Hans-Ulrich Schnitzler studied biology at the University of Tübingen , where he received his doctorate in 1968. After a stay at Rockefeller University in New York (1968/69), he completed his habilitation in 1973 in Tübingen. He held professorships in Frankfurt and Marburg before he was given the chair for animal physiology at the University of Tübingen in 1980 . Since 2008 he has been the university's first senior professor and is active u. a. in the Cluster of Excellence integrative neurosciences .

research

Schnitzler is an animal physiologist, behavioral scientist , neurobiologist and has published in all these areas. His clear research focus, however, is on bats , and there especially on their echolocation behavior . He discovered Doppler effect compensation in rhinolophids early on . He has described and analyzed bats and their echolocation behavior worldwide, and found and categorized functional explanations. Important results include the fact that bats and echolocation dolphins adapt their location sounds to the conditions of the current task. The modern division of the guild structure of bats was created under his leadership.

Memberships and functions

Schnitzler was a member of various scientific societies, including the German Neuroscientific Society , of which he was section spokesman. He was a specialist reviewer for many specialist journals and reviewer for the DFG and other national and international research funding institutions. He co-founded a neurobiological special research area in Tübingen and was the founder of one of the first graduate colleges of the DFG, and thus intensively involved in the development of the Tübingen neurobiological research landscape, from which the Cluster of Excellence integrative neurosciences was ultimately founded.

Awards

2000–2001: Daimler / Chrysler Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin
2011: A newly discovered horseshoe bat is named Rhinolophus schnitzleri for Schnitzler's contribution to echolocation

Individual evidence

↑ Hans-Ulrich Schnitzler: The ultrasonic locating sounds of the horseshoe bats (Chiroptera-Rhinolophidae) in different orientation situations. In: Journal of Comparative Physiology. Volume 57, 1968, pp. 376-408, doi: 10.1007 / BF00303062 .
↑ Björn M. Siemers, Hans-Ulrich Schnitzler: Echolocation signals reflect niche differentiation in five sympatric congeneric bat species. In: Nature . Volume 429, 2004, pp. 657-661.
↑ Ursula K. Verfuß, Lee A. Miller, Peter KD Pilz, Hans-Ulrich Schnitzler: Echolocation by two foraging harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena). In: Journal of Experimental Biology. Volume 212, 2009, pp. 823-834, doi: 10.1242 / jeb.022137 .
↑ Hans-Ulrich Schnitzler, Elisabeth KV Kalko: Echolocation by Insect-Eating Bats: We define four distinct functional groups of bats and find differences in signal structure that correlate with the typical echolocation tasks faced by each group. In: BioScience. Volume 51, 2001, pp. 557-569.
^ Annette Denzinger, Hans-Ulrich Schnitzler: Bat guilds, a concept to classify the highly diverse foraging and echolocation behaviors of microchiropteran bats. In: Front. Physiol. 2013, doi: 10.3389 / fphys.2013.00164 .
^ Norbert Elsner and Hans-Ulrich Schnitzler (eds.): Göttingen Neurobiology Report 1996. Proceedings of the 24th Göttingen Neurobiology Conference 1996. Thieme Verlag.
↑ DFG personal page Hans-Ulrich Schnitzler http://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/person/6344
↑ Carola Eschenbach, Cynthia F. Moss, Hans-Ulrich Schnitzler: Spatial cognition in vertebrates: concepts and critical experiments. In: Wolf Lepenies (ed.): Wissenschaftskolleg: Jahrbuch 2000/2001. Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Berlin 2002, pp. 284–286.
^ Y. Wu and VD Thong: A new species of Rhinolophus (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae) from China. In: Zoological Science. Volume 28, No. 3, 2011, pp. 235-241.

personal data
SURNAME	Schnitzler, Hans-Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German bat researcher, neurobiologist and professor at the University of Tübingen
DATE OF BIRTH	March 6, 1939

[1] Hans-Ulrich Schnitzler: The ultrasonic locating sounds of the horseshoe bats (Chiroptera-Rhinolophidae) in different orientation situations. In: Journal of Comparative Physiology. Volume 57, 1968, pp. 376-408, doi: 10.1007 / BF00303062 .

[2] Björn M. Siemers, Hans-Ulrich Schnitzler: Echolocation signals reflect niche differentiation in five sympatric congeneric bat species. In: Nature . Volume 429, 2004, pp. 657-661.

[3] Ursula K. Verfuß, Lee A. Miller, Peter KD Pilz, Hans-Ulrich Schnitzler: Echolocation by two foraging harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena). In: Journal of Experimental Biology. Volume 212, 2009, pp. 823-834, doi: 10.1242 / jeb.022137 .

[4] Hans-Ulrich Schnitzler, Elisabeth KV Kalko: Echolocation by Insect-Eating Bats: We define four distinct functional groups of bats and find differences in signal structure that correlate with the typical echolocation tasks faced by each group. In: BioScience. Volume 51, 2001, pp. 557-569.

[5] Annette Denzinger, Hans-Ulrich Schnitzler: Bat guilds, a concept to classify the highly diverse foraging and echolocation behaviors of microchiropteran bats. In: Front. Physiol. 2013, doi: 10.3389 / fphys.2013.00164 .

[6] Norbert Elsner and Hans-Ulrich Schnitzler (eds.): Göttingen Neurobiology Report 1996. Proceedings of the 24th Göttingen Neurobiology Conference 1996. Thieme Verlag.

[7] DFG personal page Hans-Ulrich Schnitzler http://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/person/6344

[8] Carola Eschenbach, Cynthia F. Moss, Hans-Ulrich Schnitzler: Spatial cognition in vertebrates: concepts and critical experiments. In: Wolf Lepenies (ed.): Wissenschaftskolleg: Jahrbuch 2000/2001. Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Berlin 2002, pp. 284–286.

[9] Y. Wu and VD Thong: A new species of Rhinolophus (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae) from China. In: Zoological Science. Volume 28, No. 3, 2011, pp. 235-241.