Life

Curriculum vitae - Dietrich Lothar Meyer german version

Dietrich Lothar Meyer was born on December 22nd 1947 in Lübeck. He was married to the dermatologist Dr. med. Sabine Meyer-Hamme. There are two daughters: Gesa, born in 1982, and Cora born in 1980.

Education:
1966-69 Medicine and physics in Göttingen.
1969-70 Neuroscience and oceanography in La Jolla/Calif. (UCSD -Scripps Institution of Oceanography).
1971-73 Medicine and zoology in Göttingen.

1973
Göttingen- PhD in medicine (Dissertation on „Perception of Metrics and Rhythm in Normals and Schizophrenics. A Polygraph Examination". (Thesis advisor: Prof. Dr. med. J. E Meyer).

1973-74
Research assistant in the Neurobiology Laboratory of the Psychiatric University Hospital in Göttingen (SFB 33; Prof. K.-P. Schaefer).

1974-76
Research fellowship awarded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - DFG) for post-doctoral work with Prof. T. H. Bullock, Department of Neuroscience, UCSD, La Jolla, Calif.

1976-83
Research Assistant/Chief Research Assistant with the Institute for Histology and Neuroanatomy (Zentrum Anatomie, Profs. Glees and Wolff) in Göttingen.

1978
Habilitation in 'Neurophysiology'.

1981
Appointed associate professor without tenure.

1983
Appointed full professor with tenure and director of the division 'Neuroanatomy' of the Center Anatomy of the University of Göttingen.

Honors:
1969 Fellowship (one year) of the University of Göttingen to study at the University of California.
1978 Appointed 'research associate', Dept. of Neuroscience, UCSD, La Jolla, Calif.
1978-1990 Coordinator of the DFG-SPP 'Ontogeny of Behavior'.
1983 Appointed 'adjunct professor' of the Catholic University, Ponce, Puerto Rico.
1992 Appointed 'research associate', Institute of Marine Sciences, Univ. of Alaska.

Research support:
DFG, BMBF, DAAD-Procope, DAAD-Vigoni

Referee for:
DFG, NIH, NSF, Ministry of Science Sachsen-Anhalt, J. Comp. Neurol., NeuroReport, Cell. Tissue Res., Neurosci. Lett., Brain Res., J. Brain Res..

Former collaborators with noticeable academic careers:
C.S. von Bartheld, (Dissertation + 3 Jahre wiss. Ass.), full professor, Dept. of Biophysics and Physiology, Univ. of Wash., Seattle; S. Bargava, (1 year postdoc), professor, Dept. of Zoology, Bophal, India; S.O.E. Ebbesson (1 year Humboldt fellow), Director of WAMI Programs (i.e., joint Washington, Idaho, Minn. and Alaska Program of medical schooling) + full professor, Dept. of Anatomy, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks; E. Fiebig, (doctoral thesis + 2 years research associate), full professor, Dept. of Pathology, UCSF, San Francisco; J. Fuchs, (doctoral thesis + 6 months research associate), associate professor , Dept. of Neurosciences, Univ. of Texas, Dallas; W. Graf, (3.5 years research associate), Directeur de Recherche, Laboratoire des Physiologie Sensorielle, CNRS, Paris; A.G. Jadhao, (1.5 years Humboldt fellow + 1.5 years research associate), professor, Dept. of Zoology, Nagpur, India; E. Knudsen, (doctoral thesis), full professor, Dept. of Neurobiology, Stanford University, Palo Alto; L. Veenman, (5 years research associate), research assistant professor, Dept. Anatomy and Neurobiology, Univ. Tennessee, Memphis; M. Wullimann, (3 years fellowship Swiss National Fund + 8 months research associate), acting chairman of zoology, University of Bremen