Carl-Philipp Heisenberg (born 1968) is a German developmental biologist specializing in
embryology,
cell biology
Cell biology (also cellular biology or cytology) is a branch of biology that studies the structure, function, and behavior of cells. All living organisms are made of cells. A cell is the basic unit of life that is responsible for the living and ...
, and
biophysics. He is the grandson of the physicist
Werner Heisenberg and nephew of biologist
Martin Heisenberg
Martin Heisenberg (born 7 August 1940) is a German neurobiologist and geneticist. Before his retirement in 2008, he held the professorial chair for genetics and neurobiology at the Bio Centre of the University of Würzburg. Since then, he contin ...
. He was born in Munich, Germany.
After graduating in
Biology in Munich in 1992, he carried out his PhD work with
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard in Tübingen in 1997. After a
postdoc
A postdoctoral fellow, postdoctoral researcher, or simply postdoc, is a person professionally conducting research after the completion of their doctoral studies (typically a PhD). The ultimate goal of a postdoctoral research position is to p ...
with Stephen Wilson at
University College London, he started his research group in 2001 at the
Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics
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The Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) is a biology research institute located in Dresden, Germany. It was founded in 1998 and was fully operational in 2001. Research groups in the institute work i ...
in Dresden as an
Emmy Noether junior professor.
Since 2010, he is a professor at the
Institute of Science and Technology Austria
The Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) is an international research institute in natural and mathematical sciences, located in Maria Gugging, Klosterneuburg, 20 km northwest of the Austrian capital of Vienna. It was establish ...
.
Heisenberg was elected member of the
German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2015 and of the
European Molecular Biology Organisation in 2016. In 2019, he received the
Carus medal from the Leopoldina.
Heisenberg's research focuses on characterising the molecular, cellular and physical regulation of embryonic development.
Using mostly
zebrafish as a model organism, his group has identified how cytoskeletal and adhesive elements control the physical properties of tissues during
gastrulation
Gastrulation is the stage in the early embryonic development of most animals, during which the blastula (a single-layered hollow sphere of cells), or in mammals the blastocyst is reorganized into a multilayered structure known as the gastrula. Be ...
.
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1968 births
Living people
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