Hans-joachim Pflüger
Neurobiology
Free University of Berlin
Germany
Biography
Hans-Joachim Pflüger (7 March 1949 in Ulm ) is a German neurobiologist . Pflüger grew up in Neu-Ulm and attended the Kepler-Gymnasium Ulm until his Abitur in 1968. Afterwards he studied chemistry and biology at the Universities of Stuttgart and Kaiserslautern , where he succeded in 1974. He completed postgraduate studies in Kaiserslautern and promoted in 1976. He received a postdoctoral scholarship from the DFG at the University of Cambridge . From 1977 to 1980 he was a scientific assistant at the University of Bielefeld with Professor Peter Görner , 1980 to 1987 at the University of Konstanz , where he was habilitated in 1985. Since 1987, Pflüger has been Professor of Neurobiology and Functional Neuroanatomy at Freie Universität Berlin . Since 1991 Pflüger Adjunct is Professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson , USA.
Research Interest
His research interest is in the field of neurobiology and neuroethology , his research interests are the development of sensomotor networks as well as the role of biogenic amines and the function of neuromodulatory cells in insects. In teaching he represents a wide range of subjects from zoology and animal physiology
