Alexander Borst

Alexander Borst studied Biology at the University of Wuerzburg. His PhD work in Martin Heisenberg’s lab demonstrated that the mushroom bodies of Drosophila are indispensable for olfactory learning. He did a postdoc with Karl Goetz at the Max-PlanckInstitute for biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, where he started to work on fly motion vision, a field which he never left since. In 1993, he became a Junior Group Leader at the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max-Planck Society, again in Tübingen. From 1999–2001, he was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, before becoming a director at the Max-Planck-Institute of Neurobiology in Martinsried, Munich.