Harald Wolf (biologist)

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Harald Wolf (born March 7, 1955 in Berlin ) is a German neurobiologist and university professor.

Life

Harald Wolf studied biology and chemistry at the Technical University of Darmstadt . From 1975 to 1984 he was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation and received his doctorate in 1984 at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg on the subject of "Investigation of acoustic interneurons on freely moving locusts of the species Chorthippus biguttulus " .

1985 to 1987 he was a research assistant at the University of Alberta in Edmonton ( Canada ) with Keir G. Pearson. From 1987 to 1991 he worked at the biological faculty of the University of Konstanz in Werner Rathmayer's group and completed his habilitation in 1990 on the subject of "Locomotor control in insects: neuronal bases of flight and walking" .

From 1991 to 1997 he was a DFG scholarship holder in the Heisenberg program .

In 1996 he was visiting professor at the University of Zurich in Rüdiger Wehner's group .

Since 1997 he has been a full professor and head of the Institute for Neurobiology at Ulm University .

In 2009/2010 he was a “Fellow” at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin .

Research priorities

His research focuses primarily on sensorimotor processes in the locomotion , navigation and orientation of articulated animals (e.g. desert ants ). Among other things, Harald Wolf was also involved in a number of DFG projects that focused on the application of these research results to the development of walking robots .

Prices

Fonts (selection)

  • Siegfried Bolek, Matthias Wittlinger, Harald Wolf: What counts for ants? How return behavior and food search of Cataglyphis ants are modified by variations in food quantity and experience. Journal of Experimental Biology 215, 2012, pp. 3218-3222, PMID 22915712 .
  • Harald Wolf: Odometry and insect navigation. Journal of Experimental Biology 214, 2011, pp. 1629-1641, PMID 21525309 .
  • Matthias Wittlinger, Rüdiger Wehner, Harald Wolf: The desert ant odometer: A stride integrator that accounts for stride length and walking speed. Journal of Experimental Biology 210, 2007, pp. 198-207, PMID 17210957 .
  • Matthias Wittlinger, Rüdiger Wehner, Harald Wolf: The Ant Odometer: Stepping on Stilts and Stumps. Science 312 (5782), 2006, pp. 1965-1967, doi : 10.1126 / science.1126912 .
  • Harald Wolf, Otto von Helversen : 'Switching-off' of an auditory interneuron during stridulation in the acridid ​​grasshopper Chorthippus biguttulus L. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 158 (6), 1986, pp. 861-871, doi : 10.1007 / BF01324827 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Profile at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.wiko-berlin.de
  2. ↑ Harald Wolf: Curriculum vitae , accessed on March 2, 2019.
  3. ↑ Harald Wolf: Curriculum vitae , accessed on March 2, 2019.
  4. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Yearbook 2009/2010 , Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (PDF, accessed on June 26, 2012; 3.72 MB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.wiko-berlin.de
  5. ↑ Harald Wolf: Research Areas ( Memento from May 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ Dossier Neurosciences ( Memento from January 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on bio-pro.de - the biotechnology and life sciences portal Baden-Württemberg (accessed on June 25, 2012)
  7. ↑ It starts with the ant. ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2015 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. Article on bio-pro.de from February 26, 2007 (accessed June 25, 2012) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bio-pro.de
  8. ↑ Biology Prize Winner of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences
  9. ↑ Desert ants remember good feeding spots , Focus Online , August 23, 2012 (accessed September 6, 2012).
  10. ↑ Desert ants on stilts , FAZ from April 3, 2007 (accessed June 25, 2012)
  11. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: press release , Volkswagen Foundation , July 10, 2006 (PDF, accessed June 25, 2012; 22 kB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.volkswagenstiftung.de
personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neurobiologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin