Vita

born June 20, 1948, Ansbach, Germany.
Studies in philosophy and theology (Mag. Theol. 1973), as well as in psychology and statistics (Dipl.-Psych. 1974).
PhD work on the structure of semantic fields in human memory and their development (Dr. phil. 1977, University of Munich).
Assistant prof. at the University of Munich (1977-1983), research in experimental psychology (auditory perception, associative memory).
Habilitation 1983, with a monograph on strategic processes in word association and free recall, including a computer simulation (G. Strube, Assoziation: Der Prozeß des Erinnerns und die Struktur des Gedächtnisses. Berlin: Springer, 1984).
1983-1987 Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research, Munich (research on cognitive development and autobiographical memory).
1987-1991 full professor of psychology ("Human information processing") at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. Research projects on human language processing (esp. parsing), and memory for events.
Since 1991, director of the Center for Cognitive Science, a section of the IIG (Institut für Informatik und Gesellschaft) at the University of Freiburg, Germany.
1996 Offer from the University of Zurich, Switzerland (declined).
1999-2001 Dean of the phil. Dpt., U. Freiburg.
2002-2010 Lehrbeauftragter (guest lecturer) at the University of Basel, Switzerland.
Since 2007, co-director of the HPCL (Hermann Paul Center for Linguistics), U. Freiburg.
Since 2009, vice dean of the Dpt. of Economics and Behavioral Sciences, U. Freiburg
Retirement due Sept. 30, 2013.
Gerhard Strube is married and has five children.