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Lighting Up The Brain

Gero Miesenböck

Gero Miesenböck is Waynflete Professor of Physiology and founding Director of the Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour at the University of Oxford.

Before coming to Oxford in 2007, he held faculty appointments at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Yale University. Miesenböck has received many awards for the invention of optogenetics, including the Brain Prize, the Massry Prize, and the Shaw Prize.

He is a member of the Austrian and German Academies of Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society.