Curriculum Vitae
| Degree: | Ph.D. 1990 |
| 1978 - 1981 | Studies in Physics, Ludwigs-Maximilians Universität, Munich |
| 1981 - 1984 | Studies in Physics, Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland |
| 1984 | Diploma in Physics |
| 1984 - 1989 | Graduate Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA |
| 1989 | PhD in physics (1990) PhD thesis: "Biophysical studies on saccular hair cells" in the Laboratory of Prof. Watt W. Webb |
| 1989 - 1991 | Postodctoral Research, IBM Research Lab in Rueschlikon, Switzerland |
| 1991 - 1999 | Independent Research, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ Member of the Technical Staff, Biological Computation Research Department |
| since 1999 | Director of the department for Biomedical Optics at the Max-Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg |
| since 2002 | Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Physics, University of Heidelberg |
| Awards: | |
| 1986-1989 | IBM Graduate Research Fellowship |
| 1998 | Young Investigator Award of the Biophysical Society |
| 2000 | Rank Prize for Opto-Electronics |
| 2003 | Leibniz Prize of the DFG (German Research Council) |
| 2006 | Alden Spencer Award |
| 2006 | Kavli Lecture (Society for Neuroscience) |
Research InterestsNeuroscience, Biophysics, Biological Microscopy Top Ten Publications:Hausselt, S.E., Euler, T., Detwiler, P.B., and Denk, W. (2007). A dendrite-autonomous mechanism for direction selectivity in retinal starburst amacrine cells. Plos Biology 5, 1474-1493. Rueckel, M., Mack-Bucher, J.A., and Denk, W. (2006). Adaptive wavefront correction in two-photon microscopy using coherence-gated wavefront sensing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103, 17137-17142. Hasan, M.T., Friedrich, R. W., Euler, T., Larkum, M. E., Giese, G., Both, M., Duebel, J., Waters, J., Bujard, H., Griesbeck, O., et al. (2004). Functional fluorescent Ca2+ indicator proteins in transgenic mice under TET control. Plos Biology 2, 763-775. Denk, W., and Horstmann, H. (2004). Serial block-face scanning electron microscopy to reconstruct three-dimensional tissue nanostructure. Plos Biology 2, 1900-1909. Feierabend, M., Ruckel, M., and Denk, W. (2004). Coherence-gated wave-front sensing in strongly scattering samples. Optics Letters 29, 2255-2257. Margrie, T.W., Meyer, A.H., Caputi, A., Monyer, H., Hasan, M.T., Schaefer, A.T., Denk, W., and Brecht, M. (2003). Targeted whole-cell recordings in the mammalian brain in vivo. Neuron 39, 911-918. Theer, P., Hasan, M.T., and Denk, W. (2003). Two-photon imaging to a depth of 1000 mu m in living brains by use of a Ti : Al2O3 regenerative amplifier. Optics Letters 28, 1022-1024. Euler, T., Detwiler, P.B., and Denk, W. (2002). Directionally selective calcium signals in dendrites of starburst amacrine cells. Nature 418, 845-852. Helmchen, F., Fee, M.S., Tank, D.W., and Denk, W. (2001). A miniature head-mounted two-photon microscope: High-resolution brain imaging in freely moving animals. Neuron 31, 903-912. Wang, S.S.H., Denk, W., and Hausser, M. (2000). Coincidence detection in single dendritic spines mediated by calcium release. Nature Neuroscience 3, 1266-1273. |
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