Onur Güntürkün

Onur Güntürkün (born July 18, 1958 in Izmir , Turkey ) is Professor of Biopsychology at the Ruhr University in Bochum .

Life and accomplishments

At the age of four, he developed polio . He was sent to his uncle in Germany for therapy. The therapy was only partially successful: he has been in a wheelchair since then , but can use arms and hands.

Güntürkün studied psychology at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum from 1975 to 1980 , graduated with a diploma and obtained his doctorate in 1984. After completing his doctorate, he was a postgraduate at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris and at the University of California, San Diego busy. In 1988 he was at the University of Konstanz research assistant and remained so until 1993. He habilitated in 1992. 1993 reached him, as one of the youngest professors in Germany, the reputation of the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Bochum. In 2006 Onur Güntürkün became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

On November 27, 2013, Güntürkün was one of the representatives of Izmir at their nomination presentation for the Expo 2020 in Paris.

Awards

• 1993: Gerhard Hess Prize of the DFG
• 1995: Alfried Krupp sponsorship award for young university teachers
• 2000: Honorary doctorate from Istanbul University
• 2006: Wilhelm Wundt Medal
• 2007: Great special award from TÜBITAK
• 2008: Honorary doctorate from the Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi
• 2009: Great Merit Award from the Turkish Parliament
• 2011: Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
• 2013: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
• 2014: Communicator Prize of the DFG
• 2015: Member of the North Rhine-Westphalia Academy of Sciences and the Arts
• 2016: In the summer semester 2016 holder of the 17th Johannes Gutenberg Endowed Professorship at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz .

Publications

• Biological psychology . Hogrefe Verlag , Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8017-2123-7 .

See also

• Birds brain and cognition

Web links

• Onur Güntürkün on the website of the German Society for Psychology
• Biography on the website of the Ruhr University Bochum (English)
• Entry in the Bochum university bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Urs Willmann: How thinking arises. A researcher with two passports: At Christmas, the Bochum-based biopsychologist Onur Güntürkünden receives the special award from the Turkish Research Association ; In: Die Zeit Nr. 52 from December 19, 2007, p. 46. (accessed October 10, 2009).
2. ↑ Susanne Milde, Julia Weiler: Onur Güntürkün receives Leibniz Prize In: report psychologie. 38, No. 5, 2013, p. 217.
3. ↑ Bu muhteşem şehrin evladı olmaktan gurur duyuyorum. In: Hürriyet . November 27, 2013, accessed October 10, 2019 (Turkish). 
4. ↑ The Alfried Krupp Prize for Young University Lecturers >> Prize Winner 1995: Onur Güntürkün ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2007 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. , on the website of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation (accessed on February 12, 2009). 
5. ^ Dean info: Güntürkün awarded by the Turkish Parliament , accessed on August 9, 2009
6. ↑ see message in IDW-Online about the award of the medal
7. ↑ DFG: Prof. Dr. Onur Güntürkün - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize Winner 2013
8. ↑ "Onur Güntürkün is the holder of the Johannes Gutenberg Endowed Professorship 2016", press release from the University of December 1, 2015