Gregor Schuhknecht, Group Leader

Personal Data

Nationality: German

Education and Positions

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

2019 – 2025
Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Florian Engert, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

2014 – 2019
PhD Student with Prof. Kevan A.C. Martin, Institute for Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland

2012 – 2014
MSc. in Biology (Neuroscience) at ETH Zurich, Switzerland

2009 – 2012
BSc. In Biosciences, Heidelberg University, Germany

Awards and Grants

2024 
Meselson Prize for the Most Beautiful Experiment of the Year, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
2023 
Aspirational Neuroscience Award
2021
Best Publication Award (Systems Neuroscience), Swiss Society for Neuroscience
Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoc.Mobility Fellowship 
2019 
Swiss National Science Foundation Early Postdoc.Mobility Fellowship 
2018 
Participation as a Young Scientist at the 68th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, Lindau, Germany