Thomas Oertner#
| Membership Number: | 4925 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://oertner.com |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-2312-7528 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011 - present Full Professor (W3), Director of the Institute for Synaptic Physiology, University of Hamburg, Germany
- 2009 - 2011 Senior Scientist (tenure) at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
- 2003 - 2009 Research group leader at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
- 2000 - 2003 Research Associate at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Optogenetics
- Hippocampus
- Long-term plasticity
- Synaptic physiology
- Electrophysiology
- Two-photon microscopy
Honours and Awards
- 2008 - 2011 Leader of an interdisciplinary project funded by the Gebert Rüf Foundation
- 2000 - 2001 Recipient of a fellowship by the Swartz Foundation for Computational Neuroscience
- 1997 - 2000 Member of the Graduiertenkolleg Neurobiologie Tübingen
