TU Braunschweig
Zoological Institute
Cellular Neurobiology
Biocenter
Spielmannstr. 7
38106 Braunschweig
Germany
Tel.: +49 (0)531 391 3220
Email: m.korte [at] tu-braunschweig.de
1985 - 1990
Study of Biology (Diplom) in Münster and Tübingen
1990 - 1991
Diploma-Thesis at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda (Maryland), USA Topic:
"Intermodale kompensatorische Plastizität bei frühblinden Katzen" in the research group of Prof. Dr. Joseph Rauschecker
1992
Research assistant at the NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
1992 - 1995
PhD Thesis: Retrograde Signaling Systems at hippocampal synapses" (summa cum laude) at the MPI for Brain Reseach, Frankfurt, and at the MPI of Psychiatrie, Munich
1995
Dr. rer. nat. (Neurobiology), Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology (Prof. Dr. T. Bonhoeffer), Munich-Martinsried, Germany
1995 - 1996
Postdoc, MPI for Neurobiology (Prof. Dr. T. Bonhoeffer)
1996 - 1998
Research Group leader at the pharmaceutical company Janssen-Cilag
1998 - 2004
Research Group leader at the MPI for Neurobiology, Martinsried
2001
Habilitation a the LMU München
2004 - 2007
Professor for Animal Physiology (W2) at the Technische Universität Braunschweig
since 2007
Professor for Cellular Neurobiology (W3) at the Technische Universität Braunschweig
since 2007
Director of the Zoological Institute, Technische Universität Braunschweig
2003 - 2004
Heisenberg-Stipend of the DFG
2005 - 2010
Academic dean for student affairs (Studiendekan Biologie)
2008 - 2012
Head of the Strategic Committee of the TU Braunschweig
2010 - 2012
Vice President of the TU Braunschweig for Strategic development
2010 - 2015
Coordinator of the Graduate School "grad.life" at the TU Braunschweig
since 2015
Head of the Graduate School "Grad.TUBS" at the TU Braunschweig
1984
Winckler-prize of the city Rheine for excellent school performance
1985 - 1991
Stipend of the "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes"
1996
Karl-Heinz Beckurts-prize for special commitments in teaching, didactics and encouragement of pupils to their own scientific work
2000
Founding member of "The Young Academy" (Berlin - Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Leopoldina zu Halle)
10/2002
Heisenberg-Stipend of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).
since 2013
Elected member to the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW)
since 2014
Member of Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft
2014
4th Regional Education Award of the Alliance for the region
2015
Ars legendi Faculty Award in the category Biology