Gero Miesenböck is Waynflete Professor of Physiology and Director of the Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Magdalen College.A native of Austria, he received his M.D. from the University of Innsbruck and undertook postdoctoral training with James Rothman.Before coming to Oxford, he held faculty appointments at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Yale University.He received Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Prize in 2013.