Professor Manfred Fahle

Professor of Ophthalmology

Manfred Fahle 

(020) 7040 0193
m.fahle@city.ac.uk

 

 
Link to Human Neurobiology, Bremen University

Academic and professional qualifications / memberships

1975Diploma in Biology
1977‘Staatsexamen’ in Medicine
1981Medical Thesis

Brief outline of career history

2000-Director, Institute for Brain Research, Bremen University
1999-Chair Human Neurobiology, Bremen University
1999-2001Visiting Professor, University College, London
1998-Head of Department, Dept. Optometry & Visual Science, City University London (continued as Professor on part-time basis)
1996-1998Board of Directors, Centre for Drug Research, Tübingen
1996Wiersma-Professor, Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology
1994-1998Professor of Ophthalmology; Head of Section ‘Visual Science’
1992-1998Head, German Research Council Group Neuro-Ophthalmology
1989-1990Visiting Scientist, Centre for Biological Information Processing, MIT
1988-1994‘Heisenberg’-Professorship (German Research Council Stipend)
1981-1988Head of Electrophysiological Laboratory, University Eye-Hospital, Tübingen; tenured position
1984Visiting Scientist, Dept. Anatomy & Physiology, UC Berkeley
1977-1981Doctorate Student – since 1980 PostDoc, Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen

Administrative responsibilities

  • Co-ordinator of fMRI–Research
  • Co-ordinator for international collaborations

Professional activities outside the University

  • Editorial Board of Public Library of Science (PloS) Biology
  • Professor of Anthropology, Bremen University
  • Director, Centre for Cognitive Science, Bremen (ZKW)

Research interests

  • Visual Psychophysics
  • Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)
  • Sum Potential Recordings
  • Visual Neuroscience

Selected publications

  • Herzog, M.H. & Fahle, M.: Effects of grouping in contextual modulation. Nature 415, 433-436 (2002)
  • Franz, V.H.; Bülthoff, H.H & Fahle, M.: Grasp effects of the Ebbinghaus illusion: Obstacle-avoidance is not the explanation. Experimental Brain Research 149, 470-477 (2003)
  • Fahle, M.: Perceptual learning: specificity versus generalization. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 15, 154-160 (2005)