Heinz Breer

Heinz Breer (born July 8, 1946 in Wieste ) is a German biologist and neurophysiologist. He has been a professor at the University of Hohenheim since 1987 and retired in 2018. In the same year he was appointed first senior professor at the University of Hohenheim.

Life

Breer graduated from high school in 1967. He then studied biology and chemistry at the University of Münster from 1967 to 1972, and in 1974 received his doctorate in biology from the University of Hohenheim

From 1975 to 1977 he was a post-doc at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen and from 1977 to 1987 scientific assistant and academic adviser at the University of Osnabrück , where he completed his habilitation in 1982. In 1981 he spent a research stay at Albert Einstein College in New York. In 1987 he accepted a professorship for physiology from the University of Hohenheim. There he was Vice President of the University from 1998 to 2000 and also Vice Dean and Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences. He published a total of 290 papers, mainly in the field of neurosensory technology . In 2003 he was reprimanded for scientific misconduct by the German Research Foundation for manipulating an image. However, the change in the figure did not affect the statement of the work.

Prizes and awards

• Leibniz Prize 1998
• Senior Professor at the University of Hohenheim (2018)

Web links

• Page about Breer at the University of Hohenheim
• For outstanding achievements: University of Hohenheim honors Prof. Dr. Breer as the first senior professor
• Entry via Breer in the DFG's Gepris system (funded projects)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Reprimand for Heinz Breer and Johannes Noé, DFG press release October 2003 accessed March 24, 2020
2. ↑ Mediziner defends itself against allegations - Article of the Tagesspiegel about the conflict over the data change, 2003 accessed March 24, 2020