Michael Schleyer

Since 2022 Assistant Professor at the Institute for the Advancement of Higher Education, Hokkaido University. In March, I started as Principal Investigator of a laboratory located at the Faculty of Science. I study decision-making and locomotion, and how they are modulated by previous experience.

2013-2022 Postdoctoral researcher, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany. I was following up my work as PhD student regarding the function of dopamine neurons for establishing and retrieving memory. In addition, I developed an approach for analysing larval behaviour in high detail. During the years, I gained increasing scientific independence, and supervised more than a dozen of Bachelor, Master, and PhD theses. I was funded by grants from the German-Israel Foundation (GIF) and the German Research Foundation (DFG).

2013 Guest scientist, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain. Here, I performed my first experiments regarding the tracking of locomotion of Drosophila larvae.

2009-2013 PhD student in Neurobiology, Universities of Würzburg and Leipzig, Germany. Graduation on 2013/7/19 with the best possible grade. Thesis topic: “Integrating past, present and future: mechanisms of a simple decision in larval Drosophila”. I was funded by a personal PhD fellowship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes).