Robin Hiesinger is professor and head of the Division of Neurobiology at the Freie Universität Berlin. He is interested in the processes that encode information in the developing brain prior to learning. His lab uses Drosophila live brain imaging, computational modeling and information theory to study brain wiring.
Hiesinger earned his Ph.D. in 2000 at the University of Freiburg. Following postdoctoral work with Hugo Bellen at the Baylor College of Medicine, he was assistant and associate professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center from 2006 to 2015 before moving his lab to Berlin.
He currently leads a research consortium with 14 labs, is a European Research Council Advanced Awardee (SynPromiscuity.flygen.org) and is author of the book “The Self-Assembling Brain.” More information on his lab is available at flygen.org.
