office address
Institut für Medizinische Psychologie
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Goethestr. 31
80336 München
Tel. (office) + 49 89 2180 75 635
Mobile: +49 172 8808 777
Ernst.Poeppel@med.uni-muenchen.de
place of birth
date of birth
Schwessin, Pomerania (now Poland)
April 29th, 1940
1976
Professor of Medical Psychology (Ordinarius) (Emeritus 2008)
1976
Habilitation in Psychology (Dr. phil. habil.)
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Leopold-Franzens-Universität,
Innsbruck, Austria
1974
Habilitation in Sensory Physiology (Dr. med. habil.)
Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
1968
Ph.D. in Psychology (Dr. phil.), Innsbruck, Austria
1962 - 1968
Academic Education in Psychology and Biology
Universities at Freiburg/Breisgau, Munich (Germany) and Innsbruck (Austria)
1960 - 1961
Military Service (German Navy)
1959
Abitur (Graduation from High School), Kepler-Gymnasium,
Freiburg/Breisgau, Germany
since 2009
Founder and Director of the “Parmenides Center for Art and Science”, Munich
and Pullach im Isartal
since 2007
Member of the International Sounding Board of the "Knowledge and Human Development Authorities" (KHDA), Dubai, UAE
2006 – 2010
Board Member of the “Festo Program of Applied Knowing”,
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
since 2002
Guest Professor of Peking University, Department of Psychology, Beijing,China
since 2001
Co-Director of the “Parmenides Center for the Study of Thinking”
Capoliveri/Elba – Italy, and Munich – Germany
2000 - 2014
Founder and Director of the “Generation Research Program” (GRP) , Bad Tölz, Germany
since 1997
Co-Founder and Chairman of the Human Science Center,
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
1992 – 1997
Member of the Board of Directors, Research Center Jülich, Germany
Responsibilities: Life Sciences (Brain Research and Biotechnology),
Environmental Research, Mathematical Modeling
1977 – 2008
Founder and Chairman of the Institute of Medical Psychology
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
1976 – 2008
Professor of Medical Psychology (Ordinarius)
1973 – 1976
Research Associate and Group Leader
Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
1972 – 1973
Staff Scientist, Neuroscience Research Program (NRP)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge/USA
1971 – 1973
Research Associate
Department of Psychology and Brain Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge/USA
1969 – 1970
Postdoctoral Fellow of the Volkswagen Foundation
Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Neurophysiology,
Munich, Germany
1966 – 1968
Fellowship of the Max-Planck-Society
Max-Planck-Institute of Behavioral Physiology,
Andechs and Seewiesen, Germany
1965 – 1966
NASA Fellowship
Max-Planck-Institute of Behavioral Physiology,
Andechs and Seewiesen, Germany
2015
2013
2012
2011
2008
2007
2005
2004
2002
1995
1993
1991
1991
1988
1984
1983
1975
1959
Member of the Academia Europaea (London) (MAE)
Visiting Professorship for Senior International Scientists, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jean Henley Memorial Lecture, HAI-Congress Berlin
Overseas Renowned Scholar Lecture Program of Peking University
Honorary Lecturer of the European Society of Radiology, Vienna
Golden Medal of the Peutinger Collegium, Bavaria
Bayerische Verfassungsmedaille in Silber (Bavarian Constitutional Medal in Silver)
Dean of Science of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
Humboldt Professor of the University of Ulm
Exhibit in “Deutsches Museum Bonn”
Member of the National Academy of Science ("Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina") (ML)
and thereafter: Guest Professor in Jena /Germany, Nijmwegen /Netherlands, Madrid /Spain, Edinburgh /UK, Helsinki /Finland, Beijing/China
Offer as Chairman of the National Research Center KFA, Jülich/Germany
J. E. Purkinje Medal of the Czech Medical Societies
Levinson Award of the American Poetry Association
Award of the Association of German Medical Journalists
Offer of Professorship (Chair) of Medical Psycholoy
RWTH Aachen, Germany; rejected
Scheffel-Preis (best student in German in high school)
Psychonomic Society
International Brain Research Organisation (IBRO)
European Brain and Behaviour Society (EBBS)
European Neuroscience Association (ENA)
Society for Neuroscience
Neurowissenschaftliche Gesellschaft
Deutsche Physiologische Gesellschaft
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medizinische Psychologie (past president)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Naturforscher und Ärzte
Deutscher Hochschulverband
since 1968
Lectures, Seminars and Courses in
Medical Psychology, Neuropsychology, Psychophysics, Sensory Physiology and Special Topics of Philosophy at the
Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich
Faculty of Science, Leopold-Franzens-University, Innsbruck, Austria
Department of Psychology, Peking University, Beijing, China
Academic supervision:
Habilitation of some 30 scientists from the Institute of Medical Psychology
Approximately 250 doctoral dissertations (Ph.D. and M.D.) and diploma theses of candidates from the Institute of Medical Psychology, Munich (Germany) and the Institute of Psychology, Innsbruck
(Austria)
European Research Council (ERC)
European Union (EU)
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (AvH-Stiftung)
Bundesminister für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
Bayerische Forschungsstiftung
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG)
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin
Bosch-Stiftung
Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
EXPO 2000, Hannover
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung
Cusanus-Werk
Carl Friedrich von Siemens-Stiftung
National Science Foundation (NSF), USA
National Institute of Health (NIH), USA
The Rockefeller University, New York, USA
Neurosciences Research Program (NRP), Boston, USA
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
RIKEN – Institute, Tokyo / Japan
Kyoto University, Japan
The Wellcome Trust, London, UK
Visual Perception
Structure of the Visual Field
Construction of Spatio-Temporal Maps
Attentional Control in the Visual Field
Perception of Brightness and Colour
Neurophysiological Studies in the Visual Pathway
Neuropsychology
Residual vision (“blindsight”)
Restitution of function after brain injury
Plasticity and rigidity of neural representations
Time and Timing
Experimental description of the “subjective present”
Experimental description of “system states” of the human brain
Development of a hierarchical model of temporal perception
Visual Perception
Structure of the Visual Field
Construction of Spatio-Temporal Maps
Attentional Control in the Visual Field
Perception of Brightness and Colour
Neurophysiological Studies in the Visual Pathway
Neuropsychology
Description of residual vision ("blindsight")
Restitution of function after brain injury
Plasticity and rigidity of neural representations
Neuro-Anaesthesiology
Development of a new method to monitor the depth of anaesthesia
Chronobiology
Circadian rhythms in humans; desynchronization of functions
24-hour-rhythm of physiological and psychological functions
Theory
Development of a taxonomy (classification) of psychological functions
Description of modes of knowledge and their unifying principles
Statistics
Development of a mathematical algorithm for the analysis time series
Art and Science
Biological aspects of the arts
Neuroscientific foundation of esthetics
More than 300 publications in internationally reviewed journals and invited contributions
Approximately 30 books and monographs as author or editor (for the scientific community and for the general
public)
More than 1000 presentations worldwide (many for the general public)
Interviews for print media, radio or television and scientific advisor for the international TV series “The Magic Universe of the Brain”
Peking-University, Department of Psychology; Beijing / China
Chinese Academy of Science; Beijing / China
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama / Japan
Honda Research and Development, Tochigi / Japan
Korea University, Seoul, Korea
Sassoon Hospital, Psychiatric Department, Puna / India
DSO National Laboratories, Singapore
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Psychology and Brain Science, and the Neuroscience Research Program / USA
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) / Mexico-City
Nencki-Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw / Poland
Czech Academy of Science, Prague / Czech Republic
University of Innsbruck, Department of Psychology / Austria
Russian Academy of Science, Pawlow-Institute, St. Petersburg / Russia
Center for Speech Pathology and Neurorehabilitation, Moscow / Russia
Russian State University of the Humanities, Moscow / Russia
Lomonosov University, Moscow / Russia
University of Zurich, Zurich / Switzerland