Gilles Laurent, Ph.D.

Laurent studied veterinary medicine and neuroethology in Toulouse, France, before learning neuroscience as a postdoc at the University of Cambridge in England. He went on to join the Caltech Division of Biology faculty before becoming the director at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt, Germany. He has had the privilege and luck to be educated by more than 70 brilliant graduate students and postdocs over the past 35 years.