At this on-site employer visit you will get to know the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior - caesar.​​​​​​​ You will learn more about the institute itself and its research topics as well as career opportunities for students and graduates. You will also have the chance to get to know some of the researchers and talk to them about their projects and work in progress. 

About the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior - caesar:

Since 2022, the MPI for Neurobiology of Behavior – caesar (MPINB) is one of the 86 Max Planck Institutes. As the name implies, the institute's research focus is on Neuroethology, the study of how an animal's nervous system produces behavior. Research at the MPINB is interdisciplinary and spans from imaging neural circuits at the nanoscale to analyzing neural activity during naturalistic behavior in freely moving animals.

All brains are made of the same building block: the neurons. And yet the behavior of different animal species is perfectly adapted to their ecological niche. How is it possible that animals perform successfully in different environments? What goes on in the brain while an animal interacts with its environment and makes decisions? Neuroethologists aim to understand how animals perceive their world, how their central nervous system integrates information, and how behavior ultimately emerges. To answer these questions, they use techniques known from other biological disciplines like ethology, neurobiology and neuroanatomy, genetics or biological cybernetics. Our team of researchers here at the MPINB is interdisciplinary and brings together a unique expertise: biologists, physicists, computer scientists, veterinarians and psychologists work together to unravel the causal link between the brain's action and an animal's behavior as it makes decisions. Our approaches range from nano-scale imaging of the brain’s synaptic connectivity, to large scale functional imaging, at cellular resolution, in behaving animals, to the detailed quantification of animal behavior. We study single cell organisms, worms, flies, fish, frogs, birds and mammals.