Dr. Ulf T. EyseL
Senior (emeritus) Professor
Department of Neurophysiology
Ruhr University Bochum
44780 Bochum, Germany
Email: eysel@rub.de
list of selected publications
Curriculum vitae
- 1951-1964
- Visit of elementary and high school in Kassel (Hessen), high school diploma from Wilhelmschule in Kassel,
- 1965
- Medical student at Free University Berlin,
- 1966-1972
- Fellow of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes,
- 1968/69
- Medical student, University of Miami, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Florida, U.S.A.,
- 1971, 5 March
- final examination in Medicine, Berlin,
- 1971, 26 November
- Medical thesis accepted with honorary degree,
- 1972, 2 May
- state approval as Medical Doctor,
- 1972-1974
- Research Fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Institute of Physiology, Free University of Berlin (Prof. O.-J. Grüsser),
- 1974-1976
- Fellowship for Habilitation of the German Science Foundation (DFG),
- 1975
- Habilitation in "Physiology", Free University Berlin
- 1976
- Professor of Physiology at the Institute of Physiology, University of Essen,
- 1981/82
- Visiting professor at the University of Chicago, U.S.A., Department of Physiological and Pharmacological Sciences,
- 1986
- International Chibret-Award (Franz Grehn and U. Eysel)
- 1986
- Appointment to the Chair of Neurophysiology at the Ruhr-University Bochum,
- 1987
- Head of the Department of Neurophysiology, Faculty of Medicine, Ruhr-University Bochum,
- 1989
- Director of the Institute of Physiology, Ruhr-University Bochum
- 1994
- Leibniz-Award of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- 1997/98
- President of the German Society for Neuroscience
- 1997-1999
- Dean of the Medical Faculty, Ruhr-University Bochum
- 1999
- - Advisory Board, Max-Planck Institute of Brain Reserach, Frankfurt
- - Advisory Board, HGF Institute of Neurobiologie (IfN), Magdeburg,
- - Wissenschaftlich-Technischer Ausschuss des Aufsichtsrats (WTA), HGF Research Center Jülich (FZJ), Jülich
- 2001-2010
- Dean for Research, Medical Faculty, Ruhr-University Bochum
- 2003
- Foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- 2004
- - Co-Director, Computing Center, Ruhr-University Bochum
- - Member and vice chairman of the DFG review board 206 "Neurosciences"
- 2005
- Vice-Speaker of International Graduate School of Neuroscience (IGSN)
- 2007
- Chairman Section "Systems Neurobiology" of the German Society for Neuroscience
- 2008
- - Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the Federal Republic of Germany (Leopoldina)
- - Vice-President for Research of the Ruhr-University Bochum
- 2010
- Head of the Department of Experimental Neurophysiology, Faculty of Medicine, Ruhr-University Bochum
- 2013
- Senior (emeritus) Professor of Neurophysiology
- 2014
- Advisory Board, ARC Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function, Monash University, Australia
- 2015
- Speaker of the International Graduate School of Neuroscience (IGSN), Ruhr University Bochum
- 2016
- Deputy Senator of the National Academy of Sciences of the Federal Republic of Germany (Leopoldina)
- 2018
- Co-Editor NAL-live, Journal of the National Academy of Sciences of the Federal Republic of Germany (Leopoldina)
- 2019
- Kortum Medal of the Medical Faculty, Ruhr University Bochum
- 2020
- Selection committee for awards and prizes of the National Academy of Sciences of the Federal Republic of Germany (Leopoldina)
- 2021
- - International scientific advisory board, Medical
faculty, Johannes Kepler University. Linz, Austria
- Member Standing Commitee Science in the Health Care System of the National Academy of Sciences of the Federal Republic of Germany (Leopoldina) - 2023
- Senator of the National Academy of Sciences of the Federal Republic of Germany (Leopoldina)
Functions and memberships
- Member International advisory board Medical Faculty,
Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
- Member International advisory board of the ARC Centre of Excellence for integrative Brain Function (CIBF), Australia
- Chairman scientific program advisory board "Neuroscience Research" Research Center Jülich
- Chairman scientific advisory board of the Institute of Neurobiology, Magdeburg
- Member Advisory Board Bernstein Center of Computational Neuroscience, Munich
- Member Scientific Advisory Council, Otto Creutzfeldt Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience, Universitat Munster
- Member of the "Universitarer Forschungsausschuss", University Göttingen
- Member Selection Committee of the "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes"
- Member Senate commission for Experimental Animal Research of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- Member Senate committee for the "Sonderforschungsbereiche der DFG" (until 1995)
- Chairman, Review Commitee for Research Grants (Brain Functions) Human Frontier Science Program Organization (1995, 1996)
- Speaker of the DFG Collaborative Research Center "Neuronal mechanisms of vision - NEUROVISION" (1996-2007)
- Member Scientific Advisory Board, Max-Planck Institute of Brain Research, Frankfurt (1999-2011)
- Rapporteur for research field evaluations of the Max-Planck Society 2009-2012
- Editorial Board, Experimental Brain Research (Section Editor)
- Editorial Board, Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience (Section Editor)
- Editorial Board, Journal of Physiology (Paris) (Section Editor)
- Receiving Editor, Neuroscience Research, Japan
- Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS)
- Society for Neuroscience (USA)
- International Brain Research Organisation (IBRO)
- International Neuropsychological Symposium (INS)
- German Society for Neuroscience
- German Physiological Society
Publications
- 215 original papers in peer reviewed international journals
- 6 invited commentaries (Nature, Science, Neuroreport)
- 29 scientific book chapters
- 13 chapters in german physiology textbooks
- 12 popular scientific papers
list of publications
Fields of interest
Visual system, neurophysiology, structure-function relationships, lesion induced effects: functional disturbance, recovery, plasticity