Arthur Konnerth (born 23 September 1953) is a German neurophysiologist and neuroscientist, the Hertie Senior Professor of Neuroscience at the Technical University of Munich.
[1][2] Konnerth received a degree in medicine from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and a Ph.D. from the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry.
[1][2] He has been a full professor at TUM and the director of its Institute of Neuroscience since 2005,[2] and has held the Hertie professorship since 2017.
[1][2] In 2015, he was the co-recipient of The Brain Prize along with Winfried Denk, Karel Svoboda, and David W. Tank, cited for their contributions to two-photon microscopy to visualize brain tissues and neurons.
[3][4] Konnerth's research continues to focus on development of imaging technology, as well as understanding behavior-related synaptic signaling in well-defined neural circuits.