Recruiting IMPRS-BI faculty

List of IMPRS-BI faculty recruiting in the application round 2024/25

Our application round is now closed. The next application will start in autumn 2025.

Herwig Baier

Director

MPI-BI Martinsried

Development and function of neural circuits • Neuroethology of zebrafish and cichlids • Omics approaches to behavior • Zebrafish brain atlas

Maude Baldwin

Director

Baldwin department

MPI-BI Seewiesen & Martinsried

Sensory systems • Evolution of vertebrate taste receptors • Convergent evolution • Evolution of digestive functions

Tobias Bonhoeffer

Director

Bonhoeffer department

MPI-BI Martinsried

Mammalian neural circuits • Learning, memory and synaptic plasticity • Visual system • Learning under (semi-)natural conditions

Laura Busse

Professor

Busse group

LMU Munich

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

Lorenz Fenk

Group leader

Lorenz Fenk group

MPI-BI Martinsried

Neural circuit function and dynamics in reptiles • Sleep • Perception and memory • Evolution of vertebrate brains and behaviour

Julijana Gjorgjieva

Professor

Gjorgjieva group

TUM

Computational modeling of neural circuits • Models of synaptic plasticity • Models of neural development and learning • Neural information processing

Nadine Gogolla

Director

Gogolla department

MPI of Psychiatry

Neuronal circuits for emotion in mice • Interoception and emotion • Insular cortex

Oliver Griesbeck

Group leader

Griesbeck group

MPI-BI Martinsried

Bio-Imaging • Directed Evolution • Protein Engineering

Angelika Harbauer

Group leader

Harbauer group

MPI-BI Martinsried

Neuronal mitochondrial biogenesis • Mitochondrial plasticity in neurodevelopment • Mitochondrial dysfunction in neurological disease

Susanne Hoffmann

Group leader

Hoffmann group

MPI-BI Seewiesen

Neuroethology of vocal behavior in birds • Vocal communication in social contexts • Neurophysiology in natural environments

David Keays

Professor

Keays group

LMU Munich

Molecules, Cells and Circuits in Magnetosensation • Microtubules and Neurodevelopmental Disease • Organoid models in monotremes and marsupials

Wiktor Młynarski

Professor

Mlynarski group

LMU

Theoretical neuroscience • Sensory coding • Perceptual inference • Neural computation

Pablo Oteiza

Group leader

Oteiza group

MPI-BI Seewiesen

Comparative Biomechanics • Development and Function of the Lateral Line System • Neural Basis of Flow Navigation