since 2024:  W3 Professor of Animal Physiology, Department of Biology, University of Kaiserslautern

2023-2024:  W3 Professor for Physiology, MSH Medical School Hamburg

2019-2024:  Group Leader, Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, LMU Munich

2017-2019: Lecturer and Group Leader, Biomedical Center, LMU Munich, with Prof. Magdalena Götz

2016-2017:  W2 Professor of Physical and Synthetic Biology (interim), LMU Munich

2016:  Habilitation (vena legendi) for Neurobiology, LMU Munich

2009: Career Development Award, Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP)

2007-2017:  Project-Leader, MPI of Neurobiology Martinsried with Prof. Tobias Bonhoeffer

2002-2006:  Postdoctoral fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York / Janelia Research Campus, HHMI, Ashburn, Virginia, USA with Prof. Karel Svoboda

2000-2002:  Postdoctoral fellow at MPI for Biophysical Chemistry Göttingen with Prof. Erwin Neher

1997-2000:  PhD in Biophysics at the University of Göttingen / MPI for Biophysical Chemistry with Prof. Erwin Neher

1996-1997: MSc in Engineering and Physical Science in Medicine, Imperial College, University of London, Great Britain

1995-1996: BSc in Applied Physics with Microelectronics and Computing, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, Great Britain

1992-1995:  Diploma Studies in Physics (Vordiplom), University of Bremen

Our group studies how synaptic physiology translates into higher brain function - from molecules via synapses, neurons and neuronal circuits up to systemic brain function - and how risk alleles of risk genes for neuropsychiatric diseases lead to cognitive impairments.

Detailed description

Simon Weiler, Drago Guggiana Nilo, Tobias Bonhoeffer, Mark Hübener, Tobias Rose, Volker Scheuss (2022) Orientation and direction tuning align with dendritic morphology and spatial connectivity in mouse visual cortex. Current Biology32: 1743-53; doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.02.048

Weiler S, Nilo DG, Bonhoeffer T, Hübener M, Rose T, Scheuss V (2022) Functional and structural features of L2/3 pyramidal cells continuously covary with pial depth in mouse visual cortex. Cerebral Cortex bhac303; doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhac303

Dorota Badowska, Magdalena M. Brzozka, Nirmal Kannaiyan, Carolina Thomas, Payam Dibaj, A. Chowdhury, H. Steffens, Christoph W. Turck, Peter Falkai, Andrea Schmitt, Sergi Papiol, VolkerScheuss, Katrin Willig, D. Martins-de-Souza, Jeong-Seop Rhee, Dörthe Malzahn, Moritz Rossner (2020) Modulation of Cognition and Neuronal Plasticity in gain- and loss-of-function mouse models of the schizophrenia risk gene Tcf4. Translational Psychiatry, 10:343

Simon Weiler, Joel Bauer, Mark Hübener, Tobias Bonhoeffer, Tobias Rose, VolkerScheuss (2018) High-yield in vitro recordings from neurons functionally characterized in vivo. Nature Protocols, 13(6):1275-1293

Onur Gökce, Tobias Bonhoeffer, VolkerScheuss (2016) Clusters of synaptic input on dendrites of layer 5 pyramidal cells in mouse visual cortex. eLife, 5:e09222

Daniel Meyer, Tobias Bonhoeffer, Volker Scheuss (2014) Balance and stability of synaptic structures during synaptic plasticity. Neuron, 82(2):430-443