Wolf-Dieter Heiss

Who is Wolf-Dieter Heiss?

Wolf-Dieter Heiss is an Austrian neuroscientist, Director of the Department of Neurology, University of Cologne and of Department of General Neurology at the Max-Planck-Institute for Neurlogical Research, Cologne.

Wolf-Dieter Heiss was born in Zell am See, Austria. He was educated in Vienna and received his medical degree there in 1965. After training and initial work at the Department of Neurology of the University of Vienna followed several research appointments in the United States and in Sweden:

⁕October 1 – December 31, 1965: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

⁕July 17 – August 30, 1966: Physiological Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

⁕October 1, 1968 – September 30, 1969: Research Assistant Professor, Neurosensory Laboratory, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA

⁕July 1 – October 10, 1974: Research Associate, Department of Neurology, University of Minnesota, Minnesota, USA

He was habilitated into academic career in 1970 and in 1976 was appointed as associated Professor for Neurology at the University of Vienna, where, until 1978, was Head of the Department of Neuro-Nuclear-Medicine.