R. Anken studied zoology and neurobiology at the University of StuttgartHohenheim (Germany). His Ph. D. thesis focused on the effect of altered gravity on CNS nuclei in fish, He is currentiy working at the Department of Zoology, StuttgartHohenheim University, with his main concem being the neurobiological basis (brain and inner ear) of motion sickness and spaceflight-induced kinetotic behaviour,