Curriculum Vitae
Personal
Place of birth: Münsterberg/Silesia
Date of birth: 11. April 1938
2 children
Education
1958-1959 University of Würzburg (Philosophy)
1959-1962 University of Münster (Psychology, Genetics)
1962-1964 University of Freiburg (Physiology)
1964 Ph.D.
1978 Habilitation
Academic Positions
1964 - 1966 Research Associate
Department of Psychology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts
1966 - 1970 Research Associate
Department of Retina Research
Retina Foundation
Boston, Massachusetts
1967 - 1971 Clinical Assistant
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
1971 - 1994 Head, Psychophysical Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Neurological Clinic
University of Freiburg
1994 - 1998 Docent
Brain Research Unit
Dept. of Biophysics & Radiation Biology
University of Freiburg
1998 - 2005 Professor
Brain Research Unit
Department of Anatomy
University of Freiburg
1999 Visiting Professor
Université Louis Pasteur
Strasbourg
2006 Visiting Professor
Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Science University of California, Davis
Sacramento, CA
2009 - 2012 Visiting Professor
Graduate Institute for Neural and Cognitive Sciences
China Medical University
Taichung, Taiwan
2012 Harris Distinguished Visiting Professor
Department of Psychology and Brain Sciences
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755
USA
2013 Teaching Exchange Fellow
Department of Psychology
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
2013/2015 Visiting Professor
The Laboratory of Visual Perceptual Mechanisms
Institute of Neuroscience
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai
China
2015 - 2017 Visiting Professor
Department of Psychology
National Taiwan University
Taipei, Taiwan
Picture Gallery:
Travelogue Taiwan:
„OYSTER OMELET AND
MEATBALL ARE THE RECIPE
FOR LOVE“
Flyer and Order Form:
„Laws of Seeing“ by Wolfgang
Metzger, translated
by Lothar Spillmann
Metzger Class:
Students‘ protocols with figures
Wikipedia: