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Curriculum vitae Prof. Karl Gegenfurtner, Ph.D.

  • Education

    1998 Habilitation: Medizinischer Psychologie und Verhaltens‐Neurobiologie, University Tübingen, Prof. Niels Birbaumer
    1986 - 1990 Dissertation: Experimental Psychology, New York University, 1990, Advisors Prof. George Sperling, Prof. Tony Movshon, Prof. John Krauskopf
    1981 - 1986 Studies in Psychology, University Regensburg (10/1981 – 9/1986), Diploma in Psychology, Advisor Prof. Jan Drösler

  • Academic and professional career

    2001 - present Professor of Psychology at the Justus Liebig University Giessen
    2000 - 2001 Professor (C3) of Biological Psychology at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
    1993 - 2000 Senior Scientist at the Max-Planck-Institut für biologische Kybernetik in Tübingen, Department Prof. Heinrich Bülthoff
    1991 - 1993 PostDoctoral Fellow at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Center for Neural Science with Prof. J. Anthony Movshon

  • Institutional responsibilities

    2001 - present Head of the Department of Experimental Psychology

  • Commissions of trust

    2016 - present Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, member of the Fellowship selection committee
    2012 - 2013 President, Vision Science Society
    2004 - 2016 Organizer, Summer school ‘Visual neuroscience: From spikes to awareness’
    2004, 2014 Organizer, Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), Gießen
    1998 - 2003 Founder and Organizer, Tübinger Wahrnehmungskonferenz
    Editorial Boards Journal of Physiology (2002-2009), Vision Research (since 2007), Visual Neuroscience (2007-2013), Perception (since 2009), Journal of Vision (since 2009), Psychological Research (2010-2014), Psychological Review (since 2015)

  • Fellowships, awards and third party funding

    2020-2025 ERC Advanced Grant, Color 3.0: An object-oriented approach to color
    2016 Wilhelm-Wundt-medal of the German Psychological Association
    2015 - present Member, National Academy of Science (Leopoldina)
    2014 Rank Prize Funds Lecture, European Conference on Visual Perception
    2014 - 2021 Collaborative Research Center SFB/TRR 131 Cardinal mechanisms of perception (DFG), Speaker
    2013 - 2017 International Research Training Group IRTG 1901 The brain in action (DFG)
    2013 - 2016 BMBF‐NSF Computational Neuroscience Program “Circuit models of form processing in primate V4”
    2012 - 2016 Perceptual representation of shape, illumination and material (EU) Partner Marie-Curie Initial Training Network
    2009 - 2016 Reinhart Koselleck-Projekt Perception of material properties (DFG)
    2008 - 2012 Co-ordination for optimal decisions in dynamic environments (EU) Partner Marie-Curie Initial Training Network
    2004 - 2011 Research group Perception and Action (DFG) Speaker
    1998 Heisenberg-Fellowship, DFG
    1995 Attempto‐Preis for excellence in neurobiology of Universität Tübingen
    1995 Habilitation-Fellowship, DFG

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