Gero Miesenböck#
| Membership Number: | 4514 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.cncb.ox.ac.uk |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011 Director, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour University of Oxford
- 2007 Waynflete Professor of Physiology, University of Oxford
- 2004 - 2007 Associate Professor of Cell Biology and of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University
- 1999 - 2004 Assistant Member and Head, Laboratory of Neural Systems, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- 1999 - 2004 Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Genetics and of Neuroscience, Cornell University
- 1992 - 1998 Postdoctoral Fellow, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- 1983 - 1991 University of Innsbruck Medical School
Fields of Scholarship
- Neuroscience
- Neural circuits
- Biophysics
- Cell biology
- Optogenetics
Honours and Awards
- 2008 Member, EMBO
- 2012 Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
- 2012 InBev-Baillet Latour International Health Prize
- 2013 The Brain Prize (with Ernst Bamberg, Edward Boyden, Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel)
- 2013 Gabbay Award (with Edward Boyden and Karl Deisseroth)
- 2014 Member, Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 2015 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 2015 Heinrich Wieland Prize
- 2015 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Biomedicine (with Edward Boyden and Karl Deisseroth)
- 2016 Member, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 2016 The Massry Prize (with Karl Deisseroth and Peter Hegemann)
- 2016 Wilhelm Exner Medal (with Emmanuelle Charpentier and Stefan Hell)
- 2020 Shaw Prize in Life Science & Medicine
