Univ.-Prof. Manuel Zimmer, Ph.D.
Professur für Neurobiology an der Fakultät für Lebenswissenschaften
Curriculum Vitae:
born 1971 in Osnabrück, Germany
1993-1998 Studies of Biochemistry at Freie Universität Berlin
1998 Diploma thesis work at Skirball Institue, New York University
1998-2003 PhD thesis at EMBL-Heidelberg und Max-Planck-Institute of Neurobiology, Munich
2004-2010 Postdoc at University of California, San Francisco and Rockefeller University, New York
2004 Fellow: Human Frontiers Science Program
2007 Fellow: The Robert Leet and Clara Guthrie Patterson Trust Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in Brain Circuitry
2010-2018 Research Group Leader at Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna
2012 Principal Investigator: ERC Starting Grant
2014 & 2017 Principal Investigator: The Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain
2017 HHMI / Wellcome Trust International Research Scholar
2018 Elected EMBO Member
since October 2018 Professor of Neurobiology, Department for Neurobiology, University of Vienna
Research Areas:
* Model organism Caenorhabditis elegans
* Quantitative ethology
* Neuronal circuit dynamics
* Computational neuroscience
* Neurogenetics