Markus Zweckstetter heads the senior research group “Translational Structural Biology” at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE). In addition, he leads a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen, Germany. His research interests include structural biology and neurodegenerative diseases. Dr. Zweckstetter graduated with distinction in physics (1996) from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich and conducted PhD studies at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany. Following postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry and the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, USA, he was awarded a DFG Emmy-Noether research group to start his independent career at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (2001). In 2012, Dr. Zweckstetter was appointed professor at the University Medical School Göttingen and started a research group at DZNE. He has received numerous honors including three ERC grants (ERC Advanced Grant in 2018).