Curriculum Vitae

  • Surname: Kremers
  • Fore Names: Joannes Jozef Marie (Jan)
  • Adress: Department of Experimental Ophthalmology
  • University of Tübingen Eye Hospital
  • Röntgenweg 11
  • 72076 Tübingen
  • Germany
  • Tel: +49-7071-2985031
  • Fax: +49-7071-295777



    • Education:


    Date Place
    1971 - 1977 High School at the Albert Schweitzer Scholengemeenschap Geleen (the Netherlands).
    1977-1984 Study Biology at the Agricultural University of Wageningen (NL).
    1984 Themes of Master degree: 6 Months Research at the Department of Experimental Animal Morphology and Cellbiologie of the Agricultural University.
    6 Months Research at the Department Animal Physiology of the Agricultural University.
    6 Months Research at the Lab for Experimental Orthopedics of the University of Nijmegen (NL).
    3 Months Course Mathematics at the Department of Mathematics of the Agricultural University.


    Appointments:


    Date Place Field of Research
    Sept. 1984 - Jan. 1985 Catholic University Nijmegen (NL) employed at the section of Biomechanics at the Laboratory of Experimental Orthopaedics.Theme of investigations: "A description of the position of a hipjoint prothesis in the human femur".
    Jan. 1985 - Jan. 1989 TNO Institute for Perception Soesterberg (NL) Doctorate study at the dept. "Visuologie" financed by the Durch Organization for the Advancement of Pure Research through the Foundation of Biophysics. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. D. van Norren. Titel of the thesis: "Photochemical damage of the retina".
    June 1989 - July 1992 Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry Göttingen (D) Scientific employée (Post-doc) at the Neurobiology Department, financed by the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, between July 1991 and July 1992 by the "Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft" (DFG, German Research Council). Supervisor: Prof. B.B. Lee; Head of the Department: Prof. Dr. O.D. Creutzfeldt. Theme of investigations: Electrophysiological properties of macaque retinal ganglion cells and the correlation between ganglion cell activity and human visual Perception.
    July 1992 - University of Tübingen Eye Hospital Employed as scientific research fellow at the Department of Experimental Ophthalmology through the "klinische Forschergruppe Neuro-Ophthalmologie" financed by the DFG and as a Heisenberg fellow of the DFG. Theme of investigation: Visual activity of cells in the marmoset lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) and psychophysical measurements of human thresholds to visual stimuli. ERG studies in the human retina. Start of anatomical studies on marmoset retina and LGN.
    December 1997 Habilitation at the medical faculty of the University of Tübingen. Theme of the habilitation-thesis: "Visual responses of single neurons in the lateral geniculate nucleus of marmosets (Callithrix jacchus); Visuelle Antworten von Einzelzellen im Corpus geniculatum laterale von Marmosetten (Callithrix jacchus)."
    March 1998 Approval of a Heisenberg stipend from the German Research Council (DFG). This stipend is given to young and talented scientists as a help for successful application on professorships. Start of the stipend (which lasts at least three years) was January 1st 1999


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