Carl-Philipp Heisenberg (born 1968) is a German developmental biologist specializing in embryology, cell biology, and biophysics.
[1] After a postdoc with Stephen Wilson at University College London,[2] he started his research group in 2001 at the Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden as an Emmy Noether junior professor.
[4] Heisenberg was elected member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2015[5] and of the European Molecular Biology Organisation in 2016.
[7] Heisenberg's research focuses on characterising the molecular, cellular and physical regulation of embryonic development.
[4] Using mostly zebrafish as a model organism, his group has identified how cytoskeletal and adhesive elements control the physical properties of tissues during gastrulation.