Alexander Borst

Alexander "Axel" Borst (born August 18, 1957 in Bad Neustadt an der Saale) is a German neurobiologist. He is director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence (formerly Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology) and head of the department Circuits – Computation – Models.

Borst studied biology at the University of Würzburg, where he obtained his PhD as a member of Martin Heisenberg's group. He worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen. Afterwards, he led an Independent Junior Research Group at the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society. He was professor the University of California, Berkeley. In 2001, he was appointed director at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology.

Borst is member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). Among others, he received the Research Award of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) 2014 and the Valentino Braitenberg Award for Computational Neuroscience 2014. Provided by Wikipedia