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

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