Thomas Heinbockel is currently a Professor in the Department of Anatomy, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA. His laboratory engages in multidisciplinary research to elucidate the organizational principles of neural systems in the brain, specifically the limbic and olfactory systems. His research has been directed at understanding the brain mechanisms of information processing and their relation to neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders. He studied biology at Philipps University, Marburg, Germany. His studies of the brain started during his M.S. thesis work at the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology, Starnberg/Seewiesen, Germany. Subsequently, he completed a Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA. After graduating, he was a Research Associate at the Institute of Physiology, Otto von Guericke University School of Medicine, Magdeburg, Germany. Before he arrived at Howard University, he held joint research faculty appointments in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology and the Department of Physiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He still maintains an adjunct appointment in these departments.
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