Dr Tim Bartels comes from a background in Biophysics and conducted his PhD at Adolf Butenandt Institute, Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich. Following his post-doctoral training with Dennis Selkoe at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, he accepted his first faculty position as Instructor and later Assistant Professor of Neurology. Now leading a new 3-year programme at the UK DRI at UCL, Tim and his group will continue research investigating the structure-function relationship of alpha-synuclein in synucleinopathies.