Winfried Denk
Winfried Denk
Winfried Denk studied physics at the Ludwig- Maximilians University in Munich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and Cornell University (PhD 1989). He worked at the IBM research lab in Zurich and at Bell Laboratories before becoming a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg. He is in now Director of the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Martinsried, Germany. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Physics, University of Heidelberg and a Senior Fellow, HHMI Janelia Research Campus.
Winfried Denk’s main interests lie in the development of microscopy techniques. Currently his lab is working on methods to reconstruct the synaptic circuit diagram of an entire mouse brain using serial block face electron-microscopy. In the past he has worked on near-field optical super-resolution microscopy, protein-structure determination using multi-dimensional NMR, mechano-electrical transduction in hair cells, multi-photon microscopy, calcium signaling in synaptic spines and in dendrites and on motion-processing in the retina.
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