Mathias Jucker

Mathias Jucker is Professor of Cell Biology of Neurological Diseases at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) and the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research at the University of Tübingen, Germany. He obtained his PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. He then worked at the National Institute on Aging (NIH) in the USA, before being appointed to his current position. His main areas of research are the mechanisms responsible for brain ageing and Alzheimer’s disease.