Martin Oheim
Director, Saints-Pères Paris Institute for the Neurosciences, Director of Research in Neuroscience (DR1), PI in biophysics of neuro-glia interactions, French National Research Center (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS), Paris, France. martin.oheim@parisdescartes.fr
Prof. Martin Oheim, IAS Distinguished Scholar for the academic year 2021/2022, is director of the Saints-Pères Paris Institute for the Neurosciences, director of research in Neuroscience (DR1), and principal investigator in biophysics of neuro-glia interactions at the French National Research Center (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS), Paris, France. Prof. Oheim holds an M.A.St. in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (Part III of the Mathematical Tripos, 1994) from St Edmunds College, Cambridge University, UK, a Physics diploma (M.Sci., 1996) and a Ph.D. in Physics and Biophysics (1998) under the supervision of Nobel-laureate Erwin Neher from Göttingen University, Germany. Prof. Oheim is a fellow of the German Academic National Scholarship Foundation and a member of the National network France Bioimaging. Awards: the Gay Lussac Humboldt Award (2019), the prize of the French Society of Lasers in Medical Sciences (2001) and the Otto-Hahn medal of the Max-Planck Society (1999). He was the Joseph-Meyerhoff Distinguished Professor in the Department of Biomolecular Sciences at the Weizmann Institute for Science, Israel (2018). Prof. Oheim was also a member of the excellence clusters of the CNRS support and research unit C'nano Ile-de-France and of the Ecole de Neurosciences de Paris (2013-2017). He was a Feodor-Lynen fellow of the Alexander-von-Humboldt foundation (1999-2002). Prof. Oheim is an internationally leading biophysicist interested in how intracellular organelle localization and dynamic changes in organelle morphology affect cell physiology and pathophysiology.
