Dr. Philipp Arnold obtained a diploma degree in biology and a PhD in structural biology from the Johannes-Gutenberg University in Mainz. He remained in the same group as a postdoctoral fellow until 2013, when he moved to the Anatomical Institute at the Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel, where he started his own group as an independent group leader. Dr. Arnold combines biochemical, cell biological and structural methods to work on proteins and the complexes they form in cells. In particular, he studies proteins that are related to Parkinson’s disease (PD), including alpha-synuclein and its aggregates. From April to October 2020, he worked at the Medical School Hamburg (MSH) as a professor of neuroanatomy, and in November 2020, he joined the Institute for Functional and Clinical Anatomy at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). There, he continues to work on the structure of PD-related protein complexes.