Wolfgang Prinz#
Membership Number: | 1716 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
Elected: | 1995 |
Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Homepage(s): | http://www.cbs.mpg.de/staff/prinz-10359 |
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)
Fields of Scholarship
- Experimental psychology of perception
- Experimental psychology of action
- Experimental psychology of attention
- Experimental psychology of consciousness
Honours and Awards
- 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)