Academic positions

• Since 2019 Principal Investigator, Erwin L. Hahn Institute for Magnetic Resonance Imaging, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
• Since 2017 Spokesperson of the CRC 1280 “Extinction Learning”
• Since 2017 Spokesperson of THINK (Zentrum für Theoretische und Integrative Neuro- und Kognitionswissenschaft)
• 2017 Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies
• 2016 Johannes Gutenberg Endowed Professorship
• 2014/2015 Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies of Berlin, Germany
• 2011 Visiting scientists at the Bio-Imaging Lab of the University of Antwerp, Belgium
• 2006 Visiting scientists at Brain Dynamics Institute, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmiz, Turkey
• 1998 Visiting scientists at the Vision, Touch, and Hearing Research Centre, Brisbane, Australia
• 1997 Full Professor for Biopsychology at the Ruhr University Bochum
• 1993 Associated Professor for Biopsychology at the Ruhr University Bochum
• 1992 Senior Research Fellow at the University of Konstanz, Germany
• 1988-1992 Research Assistant, Human Information Processing Lab, University of Konstanz, Germany
• 1987 Guest Fellow at Institute des Neurosciences, CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
• 1987-1988 Postdoc at UC San Diego, School of Medicine, USA
• 1984-1987 Research Assistant at the Animal Psychology Laboratory, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

Further activities

• Awards: 2021 ERC Advanced Grant; 2014 Communicator Award; 2013 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award; 2011 Medal of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia; 2009 Superior Achievement Award of the Turkish Parliament; 2008 Honorary Doctorate of the Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Turkey; 2007 TÜBITAK Special Award of the Turkish Republic, 2006 Wilhelm-Wundt-Medal of German Psychological Society, 2000 Honorary Doctor of the University of Istanbul, 1995 Alfried Krup Award, 1993 Gerhard Hess Award
• Memberships: 2010 Member of Wilhelm-Wundt Gesellschaft; 2008 Member of the German Academy of Sciences; 2006 Honorary member of the German Psychological Society; 2006 Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (since 2008 German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina); 2010 Member of the Wilhelm-Wundt Society; 2015 Member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Arts; 2019 Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.