Short CV

Dr. Matthias Wittlinger

Scientific career and positions

• 2009 - 2016  
  Research fellow at Ulm University, Institute of Neurobiology, Prof. Dr. Harald Wolf
     - Research group leader
     - Neurophysiological and neuroethological research topics
     - Supervision of Bachelor theses, Master theses, Zulassungsarbeit zum Staatsexamen Lehramt and PhD projects
   
• 2007 - 2009   
  Postdoc, Department of Bioengineering, CALTECH, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena USA, Prof. Dr. Michael Dickinson (Ocelli mediated flight control in Drosophila melanogaster)
   
• 2006  
  Doctoral degree, Dr. rer. nat., (Neurobiology), Ulm University, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Wolf, co-supervisor Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Wehner, University of Zürich, Switzerland (Thesis Topic: Mechanisms of three dimensional path integration in the desert ant Cataglyphis fortis – odometry and slope detection)
   
• 2003 - 2006   
  External PhD student in the lab of Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Wehner, Institute of Neurobiology, University of Zürich, Switzerland
   
• 2003  
  Diploma degree (Neurobiology), Ulm University Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Wolf (Thesis Topic: Electrophysiological study on velocity sensitive interneurons in the lobula of the honeybee brain)