Dr. Alexander Gerhard Unzicker

1965 Born on march 23rd in Munich as son of

Freia and Wolfgang Unzicker

1971 elementary school Munich

1975 Highschool Wittelsbacher-Gymnasium Munich

1984 High school degree

military

1985 Studying physics and law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich

1989 Studies at the Università degli studi di Bologna (I) with a DAAD - fellowship

(German Academic Exchange Association)

1st law examination

1993 Diploma in physics with thesis Initialization of meso-scale mountain barrier flows (dvi)

with Prof. Dr. Schmidt at the Institute of Meteorology of the University of Munich

2nd (final) law examination (ability of beeing a judge)

since 1994

working at the Institute for Medical Psychology

University of Munich, Germany

2000 teacher's exam (math/physics)

teacher at the Pestalozzi-Gymnasium München

2001 Doctoral thesis `Psychophysik und formale Beschreibung visueller

Klassifikationsleistungen´ (summa cum laude)

(psychophysics and formal description of visual classification learning)

Congresses, meetings, schools

DPG - school "neural nets" in Bad Honnef (Ger), 1991

Chaos and Complexity, Blois (Fr), 1993

European Quantum Electronics Conference EQEC, Firenze (I), 1993

School "Advances in Quantum Mechanics" of the Ettore Majorana Center in Erice (I), 1994

School "complex systems between atoms and solid bodies " of the KFA Jülich, 1994

Workshop Visualization in physics, Bielefeld, Feb 1996

School Topics on Finite Elasticity, Udine (I), 6/2000

Papers, talks and posters

"On Meso-Scale Normal Mode Initialization by Updating Basic States: An Over-Ridge flow situation" (Contr.Atmosph.Phys., May 1995, p.99-111)

ECVP 1995 in Tübingen (Poster)

Talk at the 26. EMPG-Meeting Regensburg 1995

Talk at the ECVP 1996 in Strasbourg (F), abstract, abstracts as coauthor (1), (2)

Talk at the 27. EMPG-Meeting Padua (I) 1996

Paper `Modeling the dynamics of visual classification learning',

to appear in Mathematical Social Sciences, 1999

Paper `Similarity-based models of human visual recognition',

Vision Research 38 (1998) 2289-2305

Paper (with I. Rentschler and M. Jüttner) `Nature and nurture in human visual aesthetics',

to appear in Current Biology

Poster at the 26. Göttingen Neurobiology conference 1998(zipped postscript)

Talk at the Münchner Volkshochschule 2007

see also research page,

Other fields of interest

Solar and other alternative energies

Dynamics of complex systems

neuronal nets, modeling the brain

Fundamental constants and their physical meaning

Applications of differential geometry