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
DirectorMPI-BI Martinsried
Development and function of neural circuits • Neuroethology of zebrafish and cichlids • Omics approaches to behavior • Zebrafish brain atlas
Maude Baldwin
DirectorMPI-BI Seewiesen & Martinsried
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
Lorenz Fenk
Group leaderMPI-BI Martinsried
Neural circuit function and dynamics in reptiles • Sleep • Perception and memory • Evolution of vertebrate brains and behaviour
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
Oliver Griesbeck
Group leader
Angelika Harbauer
Group leaderMPI-BI Martinsried
Neuronal mitochondrial biogenesis • Mitochondrial plasticity in neurodevelopment • Mitochondrial dysfunction in neurological disease
Susanne Hoffmann
Group leaderMPI-BI Seewiesen
Neuroethology of vocal behavior in birds • Vocal communication in social contexts • Neurophysiology in natural environments
David Keays
ProfessorLMU Munich
Molecules, Cells and Circuits in Magnetosensation • Microtubules and Neurodevelopmental Disease • Organoid models in monotremes and marsupials
Christian Mayer
Group leaderMPI-BI Martinsried
Omics approaches to brain development • Neural cell fate specification • Neurogenomics • Single-cell delineation of lineage and genetic identity
Thomas Misgeld
ProfessorTUM
Development of neuromuscular synapses • Cell biological mechanisms of axon homeostasis and degeneration • The neuro-energetics of the CNS
Wiktor Młynarski
ProfessorLMU
Theoretical neuroscience • Sensory coding • Perceptual inference • Neural computation
Pablo Oteiza
Group leaderMPI-BI Seewiesen
Comparative Biomechanics • Development and Function of the Lateral Line System • Neural Basis of Flow Navigation