Heinrich Bülthoff is a Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society and Emeritus Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen. He holds a Ph.D. degree in the natural sciences from the Eberhard Karls Universität in Tübingen. From 1980 to 1988 he worked as a Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was Assistant, Associate and Full Professor of Cognitive Science at Brown University in Providence from 1988-1993 before becoming a director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics. He is Honorary Professor at the Eberhard Karls Universität in Tübingen, and was an Adjunct Professor with Korea University, Seoul, South Korea. Heinrich Bülthoff was editor of several international journals and is involved in many international collaborations as well as being a member of many national and international University boards. He was initiator of the European Projects CyberWalk and myCopter and member of several European research networks.