Curriculum Vitae
Studies of Biology at the University of Konstanz, Germany
Diploma and PhD dissertation (1995) with Friedrich Bonhoeffer at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
Postdoc in the lab of William Harris at the University of California, San Diego, USA (1995-1998)
Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, Dept. of Physiology, USA (1998-2012)
Director at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, now Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence (since 2011)