Group leader

Johannes Seelig studied physics at University of Basel with a minor in molecular biology from 1997-2002. He obtained his PhD in the field of single molecule microscopy from ETH Zurich in 2006. He was a postdoctoral associate (2007-11) and later a research specialist (2011-2015) at Janelia Research Campus where he worked on neural circuits in Drosophila. From 2016-2025 he was “free-floating” Max Planck Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior – caesar.