Wolfram Schultz

Wolfram Schultz (born August 27, 1944 in Meißen ) is a German - British neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge .

Schultz discovered the biological basis for essential assumptions in psychological learning theory for reward . He used knowledge from learning and economic decision theory to find reward and risk signals in cells of the dopaminergic system and other parts of the reward system ( striatum , frontal lobe , amygdala ). He works with behavioral , neurophysiological and imaging processes of the brain .

Schultz studied medicine, mathematics and philosophy in Hamburg and Heidelberg. He completed his medical studies in 1972. As a postdoctoral fellow he worked with Otto Creutzfeldt at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, with John Carew Eccles at the University at Buffalo and with Urban Ungerstedt at the Karolinska Institute near Stockholm. From 1977 to 2001 Schultz was at the University of Friborg (Switzerland) , where he qualified as a professor for physiology in 1981 and was most recently professor of neurophysiology. Since 2001 he has been at the University of Cambridge , where he holds a professorship in neuroscience.

Wolfram Schultz is married and has three children.

Awards (selection)

• 2002 Golden Brain Award from the Minerva Foundation
• 2005 Neuronal Plasticity Prize of the Fondation Ipsen (together with Ann Graybiel and Trevor Robbins )
• 2009 member of the Royal Society
• 2013 Zülch Prize of the Max Planck Society (together with Raymond Dolan )
• 2014 member of the European Molecular Biology Organization
• 2017 Brain Prize of the Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation
• 2018 Gruber Prize for Neuroscience

Web links

• Professor Wolfram Schultz and curriculum vitae (PDF, 84 kB) at Cambridge University (cam.ac.uk)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Base de données sur les Élites suisses au XXe siècle. In: www2.unil.ch. Retrieved November 17, 2017 . 
2. ↑ 2002: Schultz - The Golden Brains. In: minervaberkeley.org. Retrieved November 17, 2017 . 
3. ^ Neurosciences. (No longer available online.) In: fondation-ipsen.org. April 22, 2016, archived from the original on July 21, 2017 ; accessed on November 17, 2017 (English). 
4. ↑ Wolfram Schultz. In: royalsociety.org. Retrieved November 17, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Zülch price. In: mpg.de. Retrieved November 17, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Wolfram Schultz. In: people.embo.org. Retrieved November 17, 2017 . 
7. ^ Biography Wolfram Schultz. In: thebrainprize.org. Retrieved November 17, 2017 . 
8. ^ Gruber Prize in Neuroscience 2018