Principal Investigator
University of Freiburg
Department for Physiology
Institute of Physiology I
Hermann-Herder-Str. 7
79104 Freiburg
- +49 (0) 761 / 203-67312
- johannes.letzkus@physiologie.uni-freiburg.de
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- Heisenberg Professorship
Vita
| 2008 | Ph.D. in Medial Sciences at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia |
| 2007-2013 | Postdoctoral Fellow and Independent SNSF Ambizione Investigator at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland |
| 2013 | ERC Starting Grant, Pfizer Prize, Frutiger Foundation University Prize |
| 2013-2020 | Max-Planck Research Group Leader at the MPI for Brain Research, Frankfurt/Main |
| Since 2020 | DFG Heisenberg Professorship at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg |
Focus of research
- Neuronal Circuits underlying memory and attention
- Foundations of (mal)adaptive fear memory in neocortex
- The neocortical inhibitory system in rodents and humans
