Carl-Philipp Heisenberg
Professor at ISTA, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Carl-Philipp Heisenberg (born 1968) is a developmental biologist who studied biology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich and completed his doctorate in the group of Nobel laureate Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard at the Max-Planck-Institute for developmental biology in Tübingen in 1997. In 2001, he became research group leader and Emmy Noether Junior Professor at the Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden. In 2010, he started as a Professor at the Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria in Klosterneuburg. Heisenberg received an ERC Advanced Grant in 2017 from the European Research Council and, in the same year, the “Würdigungspreis” from Lower Austria. Since 2015 he has been a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. In 2018, he joined the Board of Reviewing Editors of the journal Science and, in 2019, received the Carus Medal from the Leopoldina.