Prof. Dr. Mathias Jucker

Curriculum Vitae

Mathias Jucker is a Professor for Cellular Neurology and Director of the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research at the University of Tübingen, Germany.
Professor Jucker studied Neurobiology and did his PhD 1988 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, before he worked as a postdoc and research scientist at the National Institute on Aging, NIH, in Baltimore, USA. He returned to Switzerland as an assistant professor (START fellow) at the University of Basel, and was 2003 called to his current position in Tübingen.
His main areas of research are the cellular and molecular mechanisms responsible for brain aging and Alzheimer’s disease. He has a special interest in cerebral amyloid angiopathies and was first to demonstrate that the lesions in the brain of Alzheimer patients can be induced exogenously by a prion-like mechanism. In addition, he is a member of the Center for Integrative Neurosciences in Tübingen and speaker of the Graduate School of Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience in Tübingen.
He is vice speaker of the DZNE Tübingen since 2009.