Richard Kempter - Curriculum Vitae

Present Occupation

• Full professor at the Department of Biology, Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Education

• Diploma in Physics 1993, TU Munich
• Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) in Physics 1997, TU Munich, Physics Department, Theoretical Physics, Theoretical Biophysics Lab of Prof. J. Leo van Hemmen

Working Experience

• 08/1997-08/1999, Research Assistant, TU Munich, Physics Department, Forschergruppe "Hearing Objects"
• 09/1999-12/2901, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California at San Francisco, Keck Center for Integrative Neurosciences, lab of Prof. Michael M. Merzenich
• 01/2002-12/2002, Postdoctoral Fellow, HU Berlin, Institute for Theoretical Biology, Computational Neuroscience Lab of Prof. Andreas V. M. Herz
• 01/2003-09/2008, Junior Research Group Leader, HU Berlin, Institute for Theoretical Biology, Theoretical Neuroscience Lab
• 10/2008-03/2010, Guest Professor, HU Berlin, Department of Biology

Awards and Honors

• 03/1994-12/1995 Scholarship of the State of Bavaria
• 09/1999-08/2001 Emmy Noether Fellowship Part I, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
• 01/2003-09/2008 Emmy Noether Fellowship Part II
• 10/2008-03/2010 Guest Professor, HU Berlin, Department of Biology