Professor at the University of Tübingen and University of Freiburg. After 1994 he was appointed Professor at the Specialization School in Scienze Motorie (Motoric Sciences) at the Rovereto branch of the University of Trento. From 1998 to 2001 he was president of the Laboratorio di Scienze Cognitive at the University of Trento in Rovereto. Braitenberg received an honorary doctorate from the University of Salzburg in 1995. Braitenberg was married to the painter Elisabeth Hanna. They had three children, Margareta, Carla, and Zeno. Works According to Maier (2012), Braitenberg's interest in understanding the brain began in 1948, when he looked for the first time at some human brain tissue under a microscope. He said that although the connections seemed unbelievably complex, Braitenberg eventually realised that computers could serve as a useful model for understanding the brain. She said that he made seminal contributions to understanding the neuroanatomy of the cerebellum, the wiring of the eye of the fly, and the organisation of the human cerebrum. Braitenberg published more than 180 scientific works during his lifetime, not including abstracts, reprints, translations into different languages, and different editions of some of his works. According to a search of Google Scholar in September 2014, Braitenberg's book, Vehicles: Experiments in synthetic psychology, had received at least 2622 citations. Books published by Braitenberg include: Information – der Geist in der Natur. Mit einem Geleitwort von Niels Birbaumer. Schattauer Verlag 2011 Das Bild der Welt im Kopf. Eine Naturgeschichte des Geistes. LIT Verlag 2004 Vehikel. Experimente mit künstlichen Wesen, LIT Verlag Münster 2004 Vehicles: Experiments in synthetic psychology. MIT Press Cambridge 1984 Ill oder Der Engel und die Philosophen. Roman. Haffmans Zürich 1999 Information Processing in the Cortex. Experiments and Theory (mit Ad Aertsen), Springer-Verlag 1992 Gescheit sein (und andere unwissenschaftliche Essays). Haffmans Zürich 1987 Evolution: Entwicklung und Organisation in der Natur, das Bozner Treffen 1993 (with I. Hosp), Rowohlt, 1994, Simulation: Computer zwischen Experiment und Theorie (editor with Inga Hosp), Rowohlt 1995 1490- Gehirngespinste: Neuroanatomie für kybernetisch Interessierte Springer, Berlin, Germany, 1973, On the Texture of Brains, An introduction to Neuroanatomy for the Cybernetically Minded Springer Verlag 1977, Anatomy of the Cortex, Statistics and Geometry (with Almut Schüz), Springer Verlag 1991 Atlas of the frog‘s brain (with M. Kemali), Springer, Berlin, Germany, (1969). Il Gusto Della Lingua Alfa & Beta, 1996, Honours and namesakes Awards named after Braitenberg Valentino Braitenberg Award for Computational Neuroscience—A biannual award