Randolf Menzel#
| Membership Number: | 1212 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 1992 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.bcp.fu-berlin.de/biologie/arbeitsgruppen/neurobiologie/ag_menzel/index.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2002 Guest Professor at the Center of Neuroscience at the University of Trondheim (Norway)
- 1992 - 1995 President of the International Society of Neuroethology
- 1988 - 1996 Elected referee in the field of Zoology for the “Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft”
- 1987 - 1996 Curator of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen
- 1977 - 1988 Regularly held the position of Administrative Director of the Institute for Animal Physiology and Applied Zoology, Department of Biology at the Free University of Berlin
- 1978 - 1980 Dean of the School of Biology, Free University of Berlin
- since 1976 Professor (C4) and Head of the Institute of Neurobiology at the Free University of Berlin
- 1973 - 1976 Spokesperson for the research group “Neural basis of behaviour” at the TH Darmstadt
- 1972 Appointed Assistant Professor (C2) with tenure at Zoologisches Institut, TH Darmstadt
- 1971 “Habilitation” (university teaching qualification) in Zoology, TH Darmstadt
- 1968 Appointed lecturer at the Technical University (TH) Darmstadt
Fields of Scholarship
- Neurobiology and the behavior of the honeybee
- Molecular, cellular, neural and behavioral mechanisms of learning & memor
- Behavioral mechanisms of navigation and communication in insects
- Neural basis of color vision and olfaction in insects
Honours and Awards
- 1991 Leibniz Award from the “Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft”
- 1991 Member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts, Mainz
- 1992 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 1993 Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
- 1996 Member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina
- 2000 Member of the Royal Norwegian Academy of Sciences
- 2000 Körber-Preis for European Science, Körber Foundation , Hamburg
- 2004 Karl Ritter von Frisch Prize of the German Zoology Society
- 2007 Honorary doctorate, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse/Frankreich
- 2008 International Prize of Cognitive Neuroscience, Foundation Fyssen/France
- 2014 Member of the EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organization)
