Dennis Nestvogel
Short Bio
Dennis Nestvogel is a group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry. He received his bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Bremen. For his graduate studies, he joined the laboratories of Nils Brose and JeongSeop Rhee at the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine, where he studied the cell biological mechanisms of short-term plasticity and their relevance for bipolar disorder. Following his graduate studies, he worked as a postdoctoral research scholar in the group of David McCormick at the University of Oregon. During his postdoctoral studies, he investigated the synaptic and circuit mechanisms that underlie arousal- and movement-related neural dynamics in the visual pathway. The overarching goal of his current research is to understand how our ability to accurately interpret sensory input depends on our behavioral state, and how this process is disrupted in psychiatric disorders.
Education and Employment
Since 2023 Max Planck Research Group Leader
Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
2017 – 2022 Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, USA
Laboratory of David McCormick
2013 – 2017 Dr. rer. nat. in Neuroscience
International Max-Planck Research School for Neuroscience
Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany
Advisors: JeongSeop Rhee and Nils Brose
2011 – 2013 M.Sc. in Neuroscience
International Max-Planck Research School for Neuroscience
Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany
Advisors: JeongSeop Rhee and Nils Brose
2008 – 2011 B.Sc. in Biology, University of Bremen, Germany
Advisor: Sørge Kelm
Fellowships and Awards
2018 Otto-Creutzfeldt PhD Prize
Awarded biennially by the International Max-Plack Research School for Neuroscience for
excellent achievements during the PhD
2014 – 2016 Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD Fellowship