Associate ProfessorUlrike Grunert

Ulrike Grünert received her PhD in Biology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany in 1985. Following postdoctoral work at the University of Florida in the US she became a group leader at the Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt, Germany in the department of Prof. Heinz Wässle. In 1994 she was awarded her Habilitation from the Goethe University in Frankfurt. She won a Feodor Lynen fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to join Paul Martin’s group at the Department of Physiology at the University of Sydney in 1994. In 2003 she was awarded a Lions Vision Research Fellowship at the National Vision Research Institute of Australia and in 2006 Honorary Principal Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. She returned to Sydney in 2010 and is currently appointed as Associate Professor in Ophthalmology and Visual Science.