Dr. Volker Busskamp and Dr. Tobias Meng are the two latest TUD Young Investigators to be appointed by the University Executive Board.

Dr. Busskamp has led the research group "Neuronal Cell Types and Circuit Engineering" at the Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD) since 2014. He is being funded by a Freigeist Fellowship from the Volkswagen Foundation and an ERC Starting Grant.

Dr. Tobias Meng has taught at TUD’s Institute of Theoretical Physics since 2014. Here, over the coming five years, he will set up a new working group on „Quantum Design: Understanding, Creating, and Controlling Novel States of Matter“, funded by the DFG's Emmy Noether Programme.