Christian SteinhäuserChristian Steinhäuser studied physics at the Friedrich-Schiller Universität in Jena. He received a Ph.D. at the Institute for Neurobiology and Brain Research, Academy of Sciences, Magdeburg and the Faculty of Biology, University of Jena on the functinal analysis of Na+ channels in pyramidal neurons freshly isolated from the hippocampus. After habilitation in physiology at University of Jena, in 1997 he moved to Bonn as a professor for Experimental Neurobiology at the Medical Faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität. In 2007, he founded the Institute of Cellular Neurosciences at University of Bonn that he chairs since. He employs molecular, electrophysiological, and imaging techniques to investigate the role of glial cells in information processing in the normal and epileptic brain. Christian Steinhäuser: Institute of Cellular Neurosciences, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Sigmund-Freud Str. 25, 53105 Bonn, phone: 022828714669, fax: 022828719121, email: christian.steinhaeuser@ukb.uni-bonn.de. Read More Read Less