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Professor Thomas Misgeld is a neurobiologist at the Technical University of Munich, whose research focuses on the mechanisms contributing to degeneration of axons and synapses in neurological diseases, as well as normal brain development. He employs in vivo microscopy to study both peripheral and central nervous systems in model organisms, such as mice and zebrafish. Misgeld earned his medical degree from TUM in 1999 and completed a DFG Emmy Noether postdoctoral fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis from 2000 to 2004, followed by a position at Harvard University from 2004 to 2006. He served as the director of the Sofja Kovalevskaja Junior Research Group at the TUM Institute of Neurosciences from 2006 to 2009. In addition to his research activities, he held the Chair of Biomolecular Sensors at TUM from 2009 to 2011 and has been the director of the TUM Institute of Neuronal Cell Biology since 2012. Furthermore, he took part in co-spokesperson roles for the “SyNergy” Cluster Excellence, which is dedicated to exploring the intersection of major neurological disease mechanisms. Misgeld has been instrumental in coordinating the master’s program in Biomedical Neuroscience as part of the Elite Network Bavaria since 2018.