IMPRS-BI group leaders recruiting in 2023
Note: Application deadline has passed.

Herwig Baier
DirectorMPI-BI Martinsried
Development and function of neural circuits • Neuroethology of zebrafish and cichlids • Omics approaches to behavior • Zebrafish brain atlas

Maude Baldwin
Group leaderMPI-BI Seewiesen
Sensory systems • Evolution of vertebrate taste receptors • Convergent evolution • Evolution of digestive functions

Tobias Bonhoeffer
DirectorMPI-BI Martinsried
Mammalian neural circuits • Learning, memory and synaptic plasticity • Visual system • Learning under (semi-)natural conditions

Laura Busse
ProfessorLMU Munich
Neural circuits of cortico-thalamic feedback in the mouse visual system • Computational modelling of the mouse thalamocortical system • Natural stimuli for mice

Lisa Fenk
Group leaderMPI-BI Martinsried
Visual processing in Drosophila • Neuroethology of vision • Neuronal activity during active behavior • Eye movements and active vision

Manfred Gahr
Director
Julijana Gjorgjieva
ProfessorTUM
Computational modeling of neural circuits • Models of synaptic plasticity • Models of neural development and learning • Neural information processing

Nadine Gogolla
DirectorMPI of Psychiatry
Neuronal circuits for emotion in mice • Interoception and emotion • Insular cortex

Angelika Harbauer
Group leaderMPI-BI Martinsried
Neuronal mitochondrial biogenesis • Mitochondrial plasticity in neurodevelopment • Mitochondrial dysfunction in neurological disease

Michaela Hau
Group leaderMPI-BI Seewiesen
Evolutionary physiology • Effects of climate warming on wild birds • Metabolism, stress responses and life history decisions

David Keays
ProfessorLMU Munich
Molecules, Cells and Circuits in Magnetosensation • Microtubules and Neurodevelopmental Disease • Organoid models in monotremes and marsupials

Michael Kiebler
ProfessorLMU Munich
Dendritic RNA transport to synapses of mammalian neurons • Omics approaches to ribonucleoprotein assembly • Local protein synthesis at activated synapses • The role of Pum2 in epilepsy and GABA A receptor function in vivo

Rüdiger Klein
DirectorMPI-BI Martinsried
Re-designing brain circuits in mice • Multimodal mapping of cell types in mouse amygdala • Optogenetic manipulation of appetitive behavior

Jörgen Kornfeld
Group leaderMPI-BI Martinsried
Connectomics • Machine learning • Songbird neural circuits • Connectome decoding

Christian Mayer
Group leaderMPI-BI Martinsried
Omics approaches to brain development • Neural cell fate specification • Neurogenomics • Single-cell delineation of lineage and genetic identity

Richard Merrill
ProfessorLMU Munich
Ecological, genetic and developmental basis of sensory and behavioural variation • Speciation (especially evolution of behavioural isolation) • Tropical butterflies

Thomas Misgeld
ProfessorTUM
Development of neuromuscular synapses • Cell biological mechanisms of axon homeostasis and degeneration • The neuro-energetics of the CNS

Pablo Oteiza
Group leaderMPI-BI Seewiesen
Comparative Biomechanics • Development and Function of the Lateral Line System • Neural Basis of Flow Navigation

Daniela Vallentin
Group leaderMPI-BI Seewiesen
Neural circuits for vocal communication • Songbird neuroethology • Electrophysiology in interacting animals

Jochen Wolf
ProfessorLMU Munich
Evolutionary genetics • Genome-wide signatures of behaviour (e.g. mating behaviour, movement)