Nägerl U. Valentin

Biography

Valentin Nägerl is a full professor of neuroscience and bio-imaging at the University of Bordeaux and heads a research group at the Interdisciplinary Institute for NeuroScience of the CNRS / University of Bordeaux. He studied physics and medicine as an undergraduate at the University of Göttingen (1991-94) and at the University of California in Los Angeles (1994-95). He got a PhD in neuroscience from UCLA (1995-2000) in the lab of Istvan Mody. He then worked as a postdoc (2001-2004) and group leader (2005-2008) with Tobias Bonhoeffer at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Martinsried. In 2009 he received his habilitation in neuroscience from the Technical University of Munich (under Arthur Konnerth). In 2007 he worked with Stefan W. Hell (Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2014) at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, where he learned STED microscopy.

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