Vanessa Stempel, Group Leader

Education and Positions

2021 –
Max Planck Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany
2015 – 2020                
Postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Tiago Branco at Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL and MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK
2015                              
Visiting scientist with Prof. István Katona at Momentum Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology, KOKI, Hungary
2015                
PhD in Neuroscience with Prof. Dietmar Schmitz at Free University of Berlin and Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
2009                
MSc in Biomedicine with Prof. Mark Farrant at UCL, UK
2008                
BSc in Biology, Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Germany and Jagiellonian University, Poland (2007 – 2008)

Awards and Grants

2025 – 2029 HorizonEurope: ERC Starting Grant

2023 – 2025 Behrens-Weise Foundation

2022 – 2024 Alfred Dollwet Foundation

2019  UCL Early Career Neuroscience Prize, Junior Scientist Category

2017 – 2020  Postdoctoral fellowship, German Research Foundation (DFG)

2007 – 2008  Undergraduate scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), ‘Go East’ Initiative