U. Valentin Nagerl PhD

Valentin Nägerl is a full professor of neuroscience and bioimaging at the University of Bordeaux and heads a research group at the Interdisciplinary Institute for NeuroScience of the CNRS/University of Bordeaux.

He studied physics and medicine as an undergraduate at the University of Göttingen (1991-94) and at the University of California in Los Angeles (1994-95). He got a PhD degree in neuroscience from UCLA (1995-2000) in the lab of Istvan Mody. He then worked as a postdoc (2001-2004) and group leader (2005-2008) with Tobias Bonhoeffer at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology. In 2009 he received his habilitation in neuroscience from the Technical University of Munich (with Arthur Konnerth). In 2007 he worked with Stefan W. Hell (Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2014) at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, where he learned STED microscopy.

In 2009 he set up his group in Bordeaux, working on synaptic plasticity in the mammalian brain using a combination of superresolution microscopy and electrophysiology aided by tools from molecular genetics.