Wolfgang Prinz#

Present and Previous Positions

• since 2010: Director emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
• since 2005: Honorary Professor for Psychology at the University of Leipzig, Germany
• since 2004: Director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
• 1997 - 2000: Head of the Humanities Section of the Max Planck Society
• 1990 - 2004: Director at the Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research Munich, Germany
• 1990 - 1998: Professor of Psychology and Philosophy (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)
• 1982 - 1989: Research Director at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
• 1976 - 1977: Dean of the Faculty of Pedagogy, Philosophy, and Psychology (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
• 1975 - 1990: Professor of Experimental Psychology (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
• 1974 - 1975: Interim Professor of Psychology of Learning (University of Essen, Germany)
• 1970 - 1974: Senior Researcher at the Department of Psychology (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)
• 1970: Ph.D. at the School of Philosophy, Pedagogy, and Psychology (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)

• Experimental psychology of perception
• Experimental psychology of action
• Experimental psychology of attention
• Experimental psychology of consciousness

• 1993 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
• 2011 Oswald-Külpe Prize of the University of Würzburg
• 2013 Fellow of the British Academy
• Memberships:
  • Member of the Academia Europaea
  • German Academy of Natural Scientist Leopoldina, Halle (Saale), Germany
  • Scientific Advisory Board of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), University of Bielefeld, Germany
  • Advisory Board of the Dean, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
  • Honorary Member of the European Society of Psychology (ESCoP)
  • Psychonomic Society
  • German Society of Psychology (DGPs)

Curriculum Vitae

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Publication list

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Highlights of my work and anecdotes

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