Our faculty members

Baier | Baldwin | Bonhoeffer | Borst | Brumm | Busse | Denk | Dingemanse | Enard | Lisa Fenk | Lorenz Fenk | Gahr | Gjorgjieva | Gogolla | Goetz | Griesbeck | Grothe | Harbauer | Hau | Hoffmann | Jacob | Keays | Kempenaers | Kiebler | Klein | Kornfeld | Küpper | Mayer | Merrill | Metzler | Misgeld | Mlynarski | Oteiza | Portugues | Rattenborg | Vallentin | von Bayern | Wolf

Herwig Baier

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

Maude Baldwin

Director
MPI-BI Seewiesen & Martinsried
Sensory systems • Evolution of vertebrate taste receptors • Convergent evolution • Evolution of digestive functions

Tobias Bonhoeffer

Tobias Bonhoeffer

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

Alexander Borst

Alexander Borst

Director
MPI-BI Martinsried
Fly motion vision • Neural computation • Modeling • Dendrite development • Visual behavior

Henrik Brumm

Henrik Brumm

Group leader
MPI-BI Seewiesen
Acoustic communication • Bioacoustics • Anthropogenic noise

Laura Busse

Laura Busse

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

Winfried Denk

Winfried Denk

Director
MPI-BI Martinsried
Connectomics • Serial block-face electron microscopy • Advanced imaging methods

Niels Dingemanse

Niels Dingemanse

Professor
LMU Munich
Personality and life-history • Indirect genetic effects, quantitative genetics, and social evolution • Mixed-effect modelling education and teaching

Wolfgang Enard

Wolfgang Enard

Professor
LMU Munich
Evolution of gene expression • Evolution of speech • RNA-seq • Primate induced pluripotent stem cells

Lisa Fenk

Lisa Fenk

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

Lorenz Fenk

Lorenz Fenk

Group leader
MPI-BI Martinsried
Neural circuit function and dynamics in reptiles • Sleep • Perception and memory • Evolution of vertebrate brains and behaviour

Manfred Gahr

Manfred Gahr

Director
MPI-BI Seewiesen
Sexual differentiation • Vocal communication • Brain and behavior

Julijana Gjorgjieva

Julijana Gjorgjieva

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

Nadine Gogolla

Nadine Gogolla

Director
MPI of Psychiatry
Neuronal circuits for emotion in mice • Interoception and emotion • Insular cortex

Magdalena Götz

Magdalena Götz

Professor
LMU Munich
Neurogenesis • Neural stem cells • Brain injury • Neuronal replacement • Direct reprogramming

Oliver Griesbeck

Oliver Griesbeck

Group leader
MPI-BI Martinsried
Bio-Imaging • Directed Evolution • Protein Engineering

Benedikt Grothe

Benedikt Grothe

Professor
LMU Munich
Structure and function of neuronal circuits in the mammalian auditory system • Representation of space in the auditory cortex • Ca++-imaging

Angelika Harbauer

Angelika Harbauer

Group leader
MPI-BI Martinsried
Neuronal mitochondrial biogenesis • Mitochondrial plasticity in neurodevelopment • Mitochondrial dysfunction in neurological disease

Michaela Hau

Michaela Hau

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

Susanne Hoffmann

Susanne Hoffmann

Group leader
MPI-BI Seewiesen
Neuroethology of vocal behavior in birds • Vocal communication in social contexts • Neurophysiology in natural environments

Simon Jacob

Simon Jacob

Professor
TUM
Cellular and circuit basis of higher cognition • Executive control and language • Rodent and human recordings • Brain-computer interfaces

David Keays

David Keays

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

Bart Kempenaers

Bart Kempenaers

Director
MPI-BI Seewiesen
Avian mating systems • Sexual selection • Field research • Shorebird behaviour

Michael Kiebler

Michael Kiebler

Professor
LMU 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

Rüdiger Klein

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

Jörgen Kornfeld

Jörgen Kornfeld

Group leader
MPI-BI Martinsried
Connectomics • Machine learning • Songbird neural circuits • Connectome decoding

Clemens Küpper

Clemens Küpper

Group leader
MPI-BI Seewiesen
Social behaviour • Evolution of intraspecific diversity • Behavioural genetics/genomics

Christian Mayer

Christian Mayer

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

Richard Merrill

Richard Merrill

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

Dirk Metzler

Dirk Metzler

Professor
LMU Munich
Probabilistic models in evolutionary and behavioural ecology • Development of model-based inference methods in population genetics • Models of DNA sequence evolution and methylation dynamics

Thomas Misgeld

Thomas Misgeld

Professor
TUM
Development of neuromuscular synapses • Cell biological mechanisms of axon homeostasis and degeneration • The neuro-energetics of the CNS

Wiktor Młynarski

Wiktor Młynarski

Professor
LMU
Theoretical neuroscience • Sensory coding • Perceptual inference • Neural computation

Pablo Oteiza

Pablo Oteiza

Group leader
MPI-BI Seewiesen
Comparative Biomechanics • Development and Function of the Lateral Line System • Neural Basis of Flow Navigation

Ruben Portugues

Ruben Portugues

Professor
TUM
Neural circuits in zebrafish • Decision-making • Spatial navigation • Action selection

Niels Rattenborg

Niels Rattenborg

Group leader
MPI-BI Seewiesen
Neuroethology of sleep in the wild • Behavioral ecology of sleep • Evolution of sleep

Daniela Vallentin

Daniela Vallentin

Group leader
MPI-BI Seewiesen
Neural circuits for vocal communication • Songbird neuroethology • Electrophysiology in interacting animals

Auguste von Bayern

Auguste von Bayern

Group leader
MPI-BI Seewiesen
Parrot cognition • Vocal imitation and learning • Vocal plasticity • Comparative cognition

Jochen Wolf

Jochen Wolf

Professor
LMU Munich
Evolutionary genetics • Genome-wide signatures of behaviour (e.g. mating behaviour, movement)
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