Arthur Konnerth#
| Membership Number: | 2269 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2004 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.professoren.tum.de/en/konnerth-arthur |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2005 Holder of the Friedrich-Schiedel Professorship and Director of the Institute of Neuroscience at TUM
- Full professor and director of the Institute of Physiology at the University of Saarland
Fields of Scholarship
- Basic processes underlying brain function
- Synaptic interactions in neuronal circuits
- Elucidation of the neuronal defects associated with Alzheimer’s disease
Honours and Awards
- 2015 The Brain Prize
- 2006 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Medaille der TUM
- 2001 Max Planck-Forschungspreis
- 2001 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis der DFG
- 1999 Adolf Fick-Preis der Physikalisch-Medizinischen Gesellschaft Würzburg
- 1997 Feldberg-Preis der Foundation for Anglo-German Scientific Exchange
- Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
- Honorary doctorate by the Medical University Timisoara/Romania
- Carl-von-Linde Senior Fellow of TUM-IAS
