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Prof. Dr. Christian Henneberger

Institute of Cellular Neurosciences
University of Bonn, Medical Faculty
Venusberg-Campus 1
D-53127 Bonn

Christian Henneberger is a professor of neurophysiology at the University of Bonn in Germany and the current director of the Institute of Cellular Neurosciences. He studied medicine at the Charité in Berlin (Germany) and received the degree summa cum laude for his doctoral thesis with Prof. R. Grantyn. He trained as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Charité and the University College London (UCL, UK). Receiving an UCL Excellence Fellowship Award and a career development grant (NRW-Rückkehrerprogramm) enabled him to pursue his independent research first at UCL and afterwards at the University of Bonn. He is currently the chair of the master’s programme in Neurosciences at the University of Bonn.

His research group is interested in how neurons and non-neuronal cells jointly shape information processing in the brain at the cellular and circuit level and how interactions between these cell types control behaviour. The laboratory uses a wide range of fluorescence microscopy and electrophysiological methods to study this in mammalian model systems. Currently, the focus is mainly on exploring the functional and structural interactions of excitatory neurons and astrocytes in the hippocampus.

Email: christian.henneberger@uni-bonn.de