Researchers and Clinicians united

to restore vision.

Alexander (Axel) Borst, Ph.D.

  • Director, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried (since 2001)
  • 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)
  • Otto-Hahn-Medal of the Max-Planck-Society, 1986
  • Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Awardee, 2006
  • Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, 2011
  • Member of EMBO, 2011
  • Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, 2012
  • FENS Award, 2014
  • Valentino Braitenberg Award in Computational Neurobiology, 2014

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