Hans-Peter Lipp#
Photo: Institute of Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zurich
| Membership Number: | 6531 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Affiliated section(s): | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://iem.uzh.ch |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-0682-1585 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2016 Emeritus, Associate Researcher at the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zürich
- 2013 - 2016 Fractionate Professorship at Kwazulu-Natal University, School of Laboratory Medicine & Health Sciences, Durban, South Africa
- 2007 - 2012 Full professor of Human Anatomy, University of Zurich, Switzerland, Emeritus since July 2012
- 2001 - 2012 Head of a neurobehavioral core facility (("Neural Plasticity and Repair"), University of Zurich, Switzerland
- 1995 Associate Professor of Anatomy (Medical Faculty University of Zürich, Switzerland)
- 1984 - 1995 Research group leader at the Institute of Anatomy of the University of Zürich.
- 1982 - 1984 Visiting scientist at the Department of Psychology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston (USA)
- 1977 - 1982 Postdoctoral fellow and senior researcher at the Institute of Anatomy, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- 1975 - 1976 Postdoctoral research fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
- 1971 - 1975 Assistant /Doctorand at the Institute of Physiology of the University of Zürich
Fields of Scholarship
- Neuroecology
- Brain stimulation in marmoset monkeys and rats
- Neuroanatomy of barrel field and hippocampal mossy fibers
- Behavioral genetics in normal and transgenic mice
- Comparative adult neurogenesis in rodents, bats and pigeons
- Automated behavioral testing of rodents
- Spatial cognition
- EEG recording in freely moving animals
Honours and Awards
- 2009 Distinguished scientist award by the International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society
- 1983 Career award grant from the Swiss National Foundation for Scientific Research
- 1981 Hans-Nachtsheim-Award from the German Society of Human Genetics for contributions to the heritability of learning. (With H. Schwegler and W. Buselmaier)
