Silvio Rizzoli
University Medical School Göttingen, Germany
BSc in Biochemistry at the University of Bucharest, Romania, in 2000, followed by a PhD at the University of Colorado, USA, working with Bill Betz on synaptic transmission. After a post-doctoral fellow stage in the laboratory of Reinhard Jahn, Max Planck Institute Göttingen, Germany, I became a group leader at the European Neuroscience Institute (Göttingen, Germany) in 2007, before being hired as a research professor (2012) and institute director (2014) at the Institute for Neuro- and Sensory Physiology of the University Medical School Göttingen, Germany. Major Research Interests: super-resolution microscopy, synaptic neuroscience.
