Björn H. Falkenburger graduated from Tübingen University Medical School, working with Isabelle Mintz at Boston University for his doctoral thesis. He trained as a neurologist and studied the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease with Jörg Schulz, working on G-protein signalling and phosphoinositide lipids with Bertil Hille as a postdoctoral fellow. He is currently a professor of Neurology with a focus on movement disorders at the Technische Universität Dresden, pursuing research on cellular adaptation and aggregate clearance in Parkinson's disease.