Philipp Brand, Group Leader

Education and Positions

2025 – present
Max-Planck Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany

2019 – 2025
Postdoctoral Fellow with Vanessa Ruta, The Rockefeller University, New York, USA

2013 – 2019
PhD, in Population Biology, University of California, Davis, USA

2010 – 2013
M.Sc. in Genetics and Evolutionary Biology, Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf and Ruhr University, Bochum

2007 – 2010
B.Sc. in Biology, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany

2023 – 2025

K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award, National Institutes of Health, USA

Kavli Neuroscience Institute Postdoctoral Fellow

2022
Dobzhansky Prize, awarded by the Society for the Study of Evolution

2020 – 2023
Junior Fellow of the Simons Society of Fellows

2019
Allen G. Marr Prize for Superior Dissertation Work, UC Davis

Merton Love Award for Outstanding Dissertation in Ecology and Evolution, UC Davis

DeLill Nasser Award

2018
Genome Biology and Evolution Best Paper of the Year Award

2017
Loreto Godoy Memorial Fellowship

Bee Health Symposium Poster Award

Godfrey Hewitt Mobility Award

2014 – 2015
German Academic Exchange Service Annual Fellowship, DAAD