Alexander Borst

Director
Circuits - Computation - Models
+49 89 8578 3250
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Curriculum Vitae

Born 18th August 1957 in Bad Neustadt/S, Germany.

Studies of Biology, Universität Würzburg, Germany (1976-1981).

PhD with Martin Heisenberg, Universität Würzburg, Germany (1984).

Research Assistant, Max-Planck-Institute of Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen (1984-1993).

Junior Group Leader at the FML, Tübingen (1993-1999).

Professor at UC Berkeley (1999-2001).

Director, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried (since 2001).

Honors and awards

  • Otto-Hahn-Medal of the Max-Planck-Society, 1986
  • Dupont Lecturer, Tucson, 2001
  • Erasmus Lecturer, Rotterdam, 2003
  • Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Awardee, 2006
  • Director's Lecture, NIH, 2010
  • Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, 2011
  • Member of EMBO, 2011
  • Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, 2012
  • Adrian Lecturer, Cambridge, 2012
  • FENS Award, 2014
  • Valentino Braitenberg Award in Computational Neurobiology, 2014
  • Member of HHMI Scientific Advisory Board, 2018
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