Congratulations to our 2023 fellows and prize winners

Throughout the year, FMI researchers secure competitive grants and fellowships, underscoring the caliber and promise of their work. In this overview, we present FMI postdocs and PhD candidate who have been recipients of fellowships, grants, and awards in 2023 that will provide support for their ongoing research projects and future career aspirations. JOHANNES KAPPEL - EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship - ( EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships support young scientists who have demonstrated excellence in their fields throughout Europe and the world for a period of up to two years). Born in Germany, Johannes did his Master's thesis in Systems Neuroscience at NYU, New York, USA, and his PhD in Neuroscience at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence in Martinsried, Germany. He joined the Friedrich group in July 2023. Johannes is investigating how the recurrent synaptic connectivity of neurons in the larval zebrafish forebrain enables dynamic representations of physical space that are essential for navigation. For this, he is reconstructing the nanoscale structure of all neurons in the circuit using volume electron microscopy and integrating the wiring information with functional activity data acquired from the same neurons.