Moritz Helmstaedter was elected Director at the MPI for Brain Research

Great acknowledgement for the young neurobiologist

Moritz Helmstaedter, head of the Research Group Structure of Cortical Circuits has been elected Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt. "We are thrilled that Moritz will follow this call, which is an acknowledgement of his achievement so far, and we are happy that we could retain him as a colleague in the Max Planck Society", sums up Herwig Baier, the Managing Director of the Institute, how the message was received by the Institute's staff.

Moritz Helmstaedter came to the Max Planck Society in 2001, when he started his PhD thesis in the lab of the Nobel laureate Bert Sakmann at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for medical Research in Heidelberg. Starting in 2006, he worked as a postdoc in the department of Winfried Denk at the MPI for medical Research before he became head of his own Research Group at the MPI of Neurobiology in 2011. He received the Otto-Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society in 2009 for his outstanding achievements. With the call as Director at the MPI for Brain Research, the Max Planck Society is able to keep this outstanding scientist and esteemed colleague among its members.